Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Not exactly true : There is Flash Media Server.

Flash Media Server used to be the only cross platform way you could stream video.
That's why youtube used it.
Then lighttpd became the rage.
Then encoding mp4 video with the "moov atom" at the front took over with h.264.


If there were anything really great available other than flash then webcam sites would have
switched a long time ago.

HTML5 is difficult when it comes to complex uses.