Do I need a Red5 media server if there is HTML5?

Question

Java

I am writing a simple video hosting in java using grails (Spring+Hibernate) for educational purposes. Let's say a user records a video on the phone (Android) and sends the video to the server using the OAuth2 protocol for authorization and the REST (SOAP) service for transferring an array of bytes (Base64). The server uses ffmpeg to convert the resulting video to MP4 (H.264). Now a question. Do I need a media server for streaming videos if there is HTML5?

Answer 1

HTML5 should suffice. And it's better to convert the video to Webm, not MP4