The concept is quite simple: you generate a few versions of your video with different bitrates, a manifest file that links to those versions, and let the browser decide - according to the current bandwidth - which version to load.Ī single page with three autoplaying videos, using the standard html5 video.Įvery modern browser supports MPEG-DASH through the use of media source extensions.
Luckily, there is a solution: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). Use a low bitrate and it will load smoothly but never looked quite as beautiful as it should. Use a high bitrate and the video will load slowly or stutter on slow connections. The drawback is, that you only get one quality setting. For a while it seemed that I found the solution: using ffmpeg to convert the source videos to highly optimized h264 mp4 files. A dream of embedding videos in a web page without using third party services such as youtube or vimeo.
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