shaka-player VS Electron

Compare shaka-player vs Electron and see what are their differences.

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shaka-player Electron
6 236
6,851 111,798
0.9% 1.0%
9.8 9.9
about 13 hours ago 7 days ago
JavaScript C++
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.
  • Transcode errors. Headless Ubuntu 22.04 Nvidia P4000.
    1 project | /r/PleX | 28 Mar 2023
    A quick search of 1003 in Shaka issues hints at that being related to a network timeout, and that's consistent with the player requesting a lower quality (it thinks the network can't keep up with the higher bitrate) until it eventually gives up. That could explain why there are so many VAAPI errors, as it's constantly testing new bitrates until it gives up. Super weird.
  • Be aware about Piped, the alternative frontend to YouTube
    1 project | /r/degoogle | 3 Feb 2022
    It uses a video player that was made by Google. It's shaka player: https://github.com/google/shaka-player. You can see a proof of Piped using this video player here: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/blob/master/package.json#L21
  • Best video player
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 13 Sep 2021
    https://github.com/google/shaka-player Will this work on react native?
  • Problems on browsers
    1 project | /r/Stremium | 10 Aug 2021
    I expect the Shaka player issue for Providers programming has been there forever due to DRM issues. It has always been there since I started using Stremium months ago anyway. I have Sling and Locast. It looks like your adblocker may be interfering with playback. I have disabled the three ad blockers I am using for the Stremium domain. I use a Chromebook to watch news during the day and today I can still watch any channel, including those that use the Shaka Player by moving the progress bar. My CB is touchscreen, but the PC works the same. Like everyone else I believe the video playback needs serious work. The RW/FF is busted too. Reddit is not the place to get support though. You need to contact them directly. They will usually get back to you, at least in my experience. I'm also looking the the Shaka Player github to see what issues they are working on because it is more likely that improvements will come from there, not Stremium. https://github.com/google/shaka-player
  • 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...

Electron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Electron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.

What are some alternatives?

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

youtube-hls-m3u8 - Creates a permanent link for the live feed (HLS/m3u8) of a Youtube channel

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

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

dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

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

Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps

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

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

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

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

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

cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.