I have a very specific target audience that I need to stream live video to (not prerecorded), that must run stock Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7. This means without Flash, Silverlight or any other plugins. Is this possible? My fears are that it is not, but I thought I would ask just in case I'm missing some special feature.

To reiterate:

1 Only needs to support 1 browser, IE 11 running under Window 7

2 No browser plugins

3 JavaScript is ok

Please note that I already tried broadway, it was not performant enough.

I have a very specific target audience that I need to stream live video to (not prerecorded), that must run stock Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7. This means without Flash, Silverlight or any other plugins. Is this possible? My fears are that it is not, but I thought I would ask just in case I'm missing some special feature.

To reiterate:

1 Only needs to support 1 browser, IE 11 running under Window 7

2 No browser plugins

3 JavaScript is ok

Please note that I already tried broadway, it was not performant enough.

• javascript
• windows-7
• video-streaming
• html5-video
• internet-explorer-11

• IE11, is HTML5.. So it should be able to do HTML5 video.. w3schools./html/html5_video.asp – Keith Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 23:17
• Yes, it can do html5 video, but that seems to only work with prerecorded videos stored in mp4 format. I'm look for a live stream, more like a webcam. – macguru2000 Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 23:18
• HTML5, does streaming too. That's what Youtube tends to use nowadays.. – Keith Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 23:20
• 1 Yeah, was just looking at the MPEG-DASH, – Keith Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 23:22
• 1 Not sure if this will help -> bitmovin./html5-player – Keith Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 23:23

2 Answers 2

Sadly, MPEG-DASH is not available for IE11 under Windows 7 as MSE (Media Source Extensions) is not supported by this config (see MSE documentation).

As far as I could read, Flash is the only reliable way to play DASH on IE11+Win7. Yes, this is very sad. It works only for Win 8.1+.

Same problem with HLS, it is only natively supported by Edge on Win10.

Did you manage to find an acceptable promise? I'm also looking for a solution for the same setup.

I think I found a solution! After days of searching around, I found THEOplayer which is supposed to work in IE11 under Windows 7 without Flash, without any plugin, as stated on their HTML5 Support Matrix.

Only downside: it is not free. But pricing seems fair and if you don't aim at millions of video-read per month you should be okay.