rx-player vs shaka-player

rx-player

DASH/Smooth HTML5 Video Player (by canalplus)

#Dash #hss #Player #Html5 #mse #eme #video-player #Video #Video Streaming #live-streaming #Streaming

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shaka-player

JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player (by shaka-project)

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rx-player		shaka-player
	Project
2	Mentions	6
756	Stars	6,325
0.9%	Growth	0.7%
7.6	Activity	6.8
5 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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rx-player

Posts with mentions or reviews of rx-player. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.

WebKit Quirks.cpp
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2022

shaka-player

Posts with mentions or reviews of shaka-player. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-17.

Piped: The Privacy-friendly YouTube frontend/alternative that's efficient by design
5 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 17 Jul 2021
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me (2019)
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2021

I believe that's mistaken. From the article:
> As far as I’m aware, Widevine is the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron.
But according to this [0] the Chromium-based Edge browser supports both Google's WideVine CDM and Microsoft's PlayReady CDM. Not sure if that's really any help, but that's a different question.
[0] https://github.com/google/shaka-player/issues/2492#issuecomm...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rx-player and shaka-player you can also consider the following projects:

PHP-FFmpeg-video-streaming - 📼 Package media content for online streaming(DASH and HLS) using FFmpeg

react-native-vlc-media-player - React native media player for video streaming and playing. Supports RTSP, RTMP and other protocols supported by VLC player

OvenPlayer - OvenPlayer is JavaScript-based LLHLS and WebRTC Player for OvenMediaEngine.

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

play-with-mpv - Chrome extension that allows you to play videos in webpages like youtube with MPV instead

p2p-media-loader - An open-source engine for P2P streaming of live and on demand video directly in a web browser HTML page

eme-encryption-scheme-polyfill - A polyfill to add support for EncryptionScheme queries in EME and MediaCapabilities.

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

react-live - A flexible playground for live editing React components

stremio-addon-sdk - 🧙 A Node.js SDK for creating and publishing Stremio add-ons

nginx-vod-module - NGINX-based MP4 Repackager

electron-releases - castLabs Electron for Content Security

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