Adaptive Streaming Support

[sprice]

Adaptive streaming would allow the player to automatically switch source files to use a different bitrate depending on the speed of the users connection. This would provide an improved experience for users by playing the best quality file possible.

I think we would need to add this to the Flash fallback first, as Media Source Extensions are not in all browsers yet (AFAIK just part of the spec is in Chrome).

[heff]

Adaptive is partially supported today in Safari and iOS using the HLS format, and relying on the browser to handle the adaptive piece.

There's active work being done on adaptive streaming support in an external branch of the Flash fallback. I'd expect there to be more news around that in the next few months.

In the mean time I'll leave this issue open as a place for notes around adaptive.

[jeffreywescott]

Just thought I'd check-in on this. Any updates on adaptive bit rate support for non-HLS streams?

[heff]

@jeffreywescott What streams are you interested in?

[trshafer]

@heff adaptive bit rates for flash streaming.

[jeffreywescott]

What @growlypants said -- adaptive birate on the non-Safari desktop experience.

[heff]

Got it. There's some progress being made in the https://github.com/videojs/videojs-contrib-hls project. Keep on eye on that if you're interested.

[skrichten]

What about adaptive RTMP streaming with FMS?

[maheshiv]

What about adaptive streaming for non supported MSE(Media Source Extension) browsers ?

[heff]

@maheshiv, some work is being done around MSE in the videojs-contrib-media-sources project.

@skrichten I don't think we'll get to adaptive RTMP any time soon but if we can find a contributor to do it we can discuss it on the videojs-swf project.

[mmcc]

Since this work is being done in other plugins such as contrib-hls and not the core project, I'm going to close this one down.

[naveen2245]

Hi, Is there any way to get the bitrate of the videojs current video played in Mac Safari , iOS Safari and android chrome ? I have tried player.tech({ IWillNotUseThisInPlugins: true }).hls.bandwidth which is not working on the above mentioned browsers . I have added

[samueleastdev]

@naveen2245,

If you are using the hls plugin you can get everything you need with this call,

videoPlayer.on('loadedmetadata', function() {

    var player = this;
    console.log("player.tech_.hls", player.tech_.hls);

});

[bhartendukumar12]

is there a facility of adaptive bit rate streaming in videojs player for all browsers. if yes could u pls snd me that part of code responsible for this.