title: Embed streaming FLV H.264 MPEG-4, MPEG AAC in HTML
body: <p>I can paste a live-streaming URL in VLC and it plays. Here is the media information provided by VLC:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jqV5C.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jqV5C.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>The URL is of the format http://***.flv I am assuming this is FLV container. But I can only guarantee what I see in the screenshot above. </p>
  
  <p>It is possible to embed this live streaming video in HTML which will work on modern Chrome and/or iOS/Safari devices?</p>
  
  <p>This is the code I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;video controls id="video" width="320" height="240" preload autobuffer &gt;
       &lt;source src="http://***.flv" type="video/mp4" /&gt;
  &lt;/video&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In Mac/Chrome this only attempts to download the "whole" file. Of course, the file is infinite, so this will never actually play.</p>