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I just got security camera that has a low quality stream (720p15) and a high quality stream (4k25 H.265). On its web portal it can show the low quality stream
by mastax 4y ago
I just got security camera that has a low quality stream (720p15) and a high quality stream (4k25 H.265). On its web portal it can show the low quality stream as HTML video, but for the high quality it requires Flash, for some reason. Did H.265 even exist before flash was deprecated? I'm pretty sure this camera company didn't exist when flash was deprecated. Maybe for the web portal it uses an MJPEG stream or something.
- mastax 4y agoI just tried it out and apparently the video player uses ActionScript 3. Oh well, I just use VLC anyway.
- zamadatix 4y agoFlash was announced for deprecation in 2017 and UHD Blu Rays were in consumer hands in 2016 (H.265 having first been published in 2013) so it checks out. Of course most everyone stayed away from HEVC because of the licensing, including both browsers and Flash. Even in 2023 support in browsers is iffy and convoluted. My wild guess is the original makers of the camera/encoding system assembled some sort of software decoding solution in Flash (since this was prior to WASM rollout/mass support) and the camera company might have just repackaged that solution in a later year.