Answers.Body: <p>Not all browsers and mobile devices natively support MPEG-DASH ( .mpd), DASH is natively supported in Chrome (including Android 4.0+), Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, and many SmartTVs. </p>
  
  <p>To answer your questions: </p>
  
  <p>1) To ensure that your encoded video can stream in all environments, make sure to embed relevant client players in your application, you can find more information about Adaptive bitrate streaming here - <a href="http://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_manipulation_and_delivery#adaptive_bitrate_streaming_hls_and_mpeg_dash" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_manipulation_and_delivery#adaptive_bitrate_streaming_hls_and_mpeg_dash</a></p>
  
  <p>2) Here is a list of open source <a href="http://cloudinary.com/blog/html5_video_player" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTML5 video players</a>. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>no. video tag can not play mpd, and will not do adaptative bitrate. You must write that yourself, or use a free, or commercial implementation</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have a Movie_Manifest.mpd file that is made up of 5 .webm video streams (consisting of different sizes and bps) and 1 audio file. The question I'm asking is: can it be played through a "simple" HTML5 video tag?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried this and it doesn't work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;video controls&gt;
    &lt;source src = "Movie_Manifest.mpd"/&gt;
  &lt;/video&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Well it works, but it chooses the lowest quality video stream and the output is laggy. I would like it to have adaptive bit streaming. You might think, "Do you think your bandwidth is just <em>that</em> slow?" Yeah, my bandwidth is slow, but not <em>that</em> slow. And besides, when I run that low quality webm file on its own, it runs smooth. </p>
  
  <p>So to reiterate:  </p>
  
  <p>1) Can I use a "simple" HTML5 video tag for adaptive bit streaming?  </p>
  
  <p>Or </p>
  
  <p>2) Do I have to use an open source media player (that the video tag would be accessing through a javascript)?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks and happy streaming</p>
  
Tags: <streaming><transcoding><mpeg-dash>
Title: Simple: Can HTML5 Play a .mpd Manifest File Through Its Video Tag?
UserDisplayName: alexs973
ThreadText: # Simple: Can HTML5 Play a .mpd Manifest File Through Its Video Tag?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-26)
  
  I have a Movie\_Manifest.mpd file that is made up of 5 .webm video streams (consisting of different sizes and bps) and 1 audio file. The question I'm asking is: can it be played through a "simple" HTML5 video tag?
  
  I've tried this and it doesn't work:
  
  ```
  <video controls>
    <source src = "Movie_Manifest.mpd"/>
  </video>
  
  ```
  
  Well it works, but it chooses the lowest quality video stream and the output is laggy. I would like it to have adaptive bit streaming. You might think, "Do you think your bandwidth is just *that* slow?" Yeah, my bandwidth is slow, but not *that* slow. And besides, when I run that low quality webm file on its own, it runs smooth.
  
  So to reiterate:
  
  1) Can I use a "simple" HTML5 video tag for adaptive bit streaming?
  
  Or
  
  2) Do I have to use an open source media player (that the video tag would be accessing through a javascript)?
  
  Thanks and happy streaming
  
  **Tags:** streaming, transcoding, mpeg-dash
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-13. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Not all browsers and mobile devices natively support MPEG-DASH ( .mpd), DASH is natively supported in Chrome (including Android 4.0+), Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, and many SmartTVs.
  
  To answer your questions:
  
  1) To ensure that your encoded video can stream in all environments, make sure to embed relevant client players in your application, you can find more information about Adaptive bitrate streaming here - <http://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_manipulation_and_delivery#adaptive_bitrate_streaming_hls_and_mpeg_dash>
  
  2) Here is a list of open source [HTML5 video players](http://cloudinary.com/blog/html5_video_player).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-04-27. Score: 1
  
  no. video tag can not play mpd, and will not do adaptative bitrate. You must write that yourself, or use a free, or commercial implementation
  
  
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