# Getting started with Wowza Flowplayer Smart TV development

The approach for Wowza Flowplayer to run on web-based Smart TV environments (like Tizen or webOS) is similar across all platforms.

## Tizen

For Samsung TVs (or other Tizen-based devices), Wowza has an example application developed that will help you get started on Flowplayer development on Tizen-based systems.

The source code can be found on Github:

* [Flowplayer/Flowplayer-Tizen-example-app](https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-tizen-demo)


You'll also want to add the Wowza Flowplayer Tizen plugin for remote control functionality and other functions. You can review the [Tizen-plugin documentation](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/tizen) before you get started.

## WebOS

For LG TVs (or other webOS-based devices), Wowza has an example application developed that will help you get started on Flowplayer development on webOS-based systems.

The source code can be found on Github:

* [Flowplayer/Flowplayer-webOS-example-app](https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer-webos-demo)


You'll also want to add the Wowza Flowplayer webOS plugin for remote control functionality and other functions. You can review the [webOS-plugin documentation](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/web-os) before you get started.

##Exceptions

The webplayer works the same as it works on a normal web browser with the following [exceptions](#exceptions) (see below).

### Remote control support

To make the player usable with remote control, include the relevant Wowza Flowplayer Smart TV plugin.

We offer plugins for:

* [Tizen](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/tizen)
* [WebOS](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/web-os)


### Media URLs

Most web-based Smart TV platforms run a Chromium-based browser as the view layer.

The application is served from the filesystem directly with `file:///` protocol. This means that you can't use protocol-relative media urls like `//cdn.example.com/myfile.mp4`. You have to include the full absolute media URL with protocol instead.

`https://cdn.example.com/myfile.mp4`.

### Media types

The Chromium-based browser, most likely, only supports .mp4 files out of the box. To run HLS or MPEG-DASH content, include the relevant playback plugin for Wowza Flowplayer when you initialize the player.

* [HLS plugin](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/hls)
* [MPEG-DASH plugin](/docs/wowza-flowplayer/plugins/mpeg-dash)