html5 audio livestreaming

Question

I\'m creating my own audio, without controls of the browser.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is still no single video and audio codec, which is supported by all browsers! The programmers have to ensure that there is fallback provided for use-cases where browser A doesn't support codec B and vice versa.

You can take a look at this compatibility table, for both desktop and mobile browsers.

Desktop:

• Internet Explorer (9.0+) support MP3 and AAC codecs
• Chrome (6.0+) support Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV+
• Firefox (3.6+) support Ogg Vorbis, WAV
• Safari (5.0+) support MP3, AAC, WAV
• Opera (10.0+) support Ogg Vorbis, WAV

Mobile:

• Opera Mobile (11.0+) supported codecs are device-dependent
• Android (2.3+) supported codecs are device-dependent
• Mobile Safari (iDevices with iOS 3.0+) support MP3, AAC
• Blackberry (6.0+) support MP3, AAC

Since flash is still widespread enough, it's probably the safest fallback.

Also, I want to note that there's nothing worse to use some library, some of them (e.g. jPlayer) provides very powerful interface and this only can help you to produce better code!

I think you can find everything you want to know in the following article: HTML5 Audio Radio Player by Opera Devs