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For the time being, only http-download is supported. This has the advantage of being compatible with a large number of phones/players, whereas RTMP or HTTP-Streaming solutions are proprietary and therefore only supported by certain specific devices.

• RTMP is compatible with Flash only, which excludes mobiles or HTML5, for example
• HTTP-Streaming does not exist in a unified form and several manufacturers produce their own implementation (Apple HTTP-Streaming for iPhone/iPad/iPod, Flash dynamic streaming or Adobe and Flash).

There is still no real standard agreed upon by the different manufacturers that would allow them to all support one single codec: MP4(h264) and WebM may or may not be supported depending on the browser in question; H264, for example, is not supported on Firefox, WebM VP8 and VP9 are not supported on Safari and IE11, etc. This is why it is necessary to juggle between the different encoding standards and the different players that may or may not be capable of reading them, depending on the device and hardware on which they are running.

As soon as a standard encoding is supported by Adobe Flash Player, Flash Player will be the preferred solution as it is significantly more advanced in terms of customisation, options and features (VAST, adsWizz, playlists, chapter indexing, etc.) than the HTML5 version. If the Adobe plugin is not installed in the browser, an HTML5 version will then be loaded, depending on the browser's level of HTML5 support and availability of a suitable decoder that is compatible with the browser in question.