Allow playback of single files through src=

• What version of Shaka Player are you using?

2.1.1

• Can you reproduce the issue with our latest release version?

Yes

• Can you reproduce the issue with the latest code from master?

Yes

• Are you using the demo app or your own custom app?

Both

• If custom app, can you reproduce the issue using our demo app?

Yes

• What browser and OS are you using?

Safari

• What did you do?

Attempted to load unprotected MP4 (advertisement) in player.

• What did you expect to happen?

Allow load of unprotected MP4 content from outside server.

• What actually happened?

1. ShakaPlayer doesn’t recognize .mp4 extension automatically. Requires adding feature “mp4”.
2. ShakaPlayer doesn’t play content. Throws 1002 Error from CORS issue. CORS issue not present in standard video HTML5 tag playback.

[joeyparrish]

We’ve decided to work on src= support in v2.3. This will involve a fair amount of refactoring, and using src= to directly play a media file will mean that most of Shaka Player’s configuration will have no effect. The browser will be responsible for streaming, buffering, etc. Side-loaded captions would also fail (because we would not be streaming text, either). Shaka Player would only be able to control DRM for src= playback.

So, with all those caveats, we are scheduling this for v2.3.

[joeyparrish]

@avelad, yes, I think that canPlayType would be helpful in general, and fits nicely with the native HLS work for iOS. I’ll follow-up on that very soon.