How do you spend a good Saturday afternoon? You try to implement streaming of video on your website.

Been digging around trying to figure out how to host and serve your own video, becoming independent of YouTube, Vimeo etc.

So far the answer, from a WordPress perspective, have been to install the plug-in FV Player, and then dig around Apples documentation for their HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) implementation.

So far, so good. Have managed to create a version of the popular “Pirates of Maersk Maritime Technology”, which is available for streaming below.

It’s a work-in-progress…