Safari can stream live video because it supports HLS (HTTP Live Streaming), which is Apple's own thing. Sadly, there's still no good way to stream live video a

Safari can stream live video because it supports HLS (HTTP Live Streaming), which is Apple's own thing. Sadly, there's still no good way to stream live video across multiple browsers without Flash. Eventually, this will be possible via the Media Source Extensions API, but even then, you'll still probably have the issue of different browsers supporting different containers and codecs - which will lead to people doing crazy things like converting MPEG2-TS to MP4 in JavaScript web workers. I had to keep a pretty close eye on all of this stuff when I worked at Aereo, and it always bummed me out to think about the fact that it's still not really possible to stream live video in a web browser without plugins.