This is because HLS isn't universally available on desktop browsers and I assume you're using that or rtmp, which is even worse and has no real compatibility an

This is because HLS isn't universally available on desktop browsers and I assume you're using that or rtmp, which is even worse and has no real compatibility anywhere without flash. http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/ http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/ I myself had to deal heavily with this while working on live streaming and dealing with the client side.