A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
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The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) is proud to announce its second dash.js award. Again, we are looking for developers who made contributions of significant benefit to the advancement of the dash.js project. All information can be found here.
If you are migrating from dash.js v3.x to dash.js v4.x please read the migration document found here.
Important: Due to a configuration error we had to republish version 4.0.0 to npm.js. Since the 4.0.0 tag could not be reused for this purpose we had to rename the release on npm.js to 4.0.0-npm
When installing dash.js 4.0.0 via npm please make sure to use
npm install dashjs@4.0.0-npm
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via JavaScript and compliant browsers. Learn more about DASH IF Reference Client on our wiki.
If your intent is to use the player code without contributing back to this project, then use the MASTER branch which holds the approved and stable public releases.
If your goal is to improve or extend the code and contribute back to this project, then you should make your changes in, and submit a pull request against, the DEVELOPMENT branch. Read our CONTRIBUTION.md file for a walk-through of the contribution process.
All new work should be in the development branch. Master is now reserved for tagged builds.
All these reference builds and minified files are available under both http and https.
Multiple dash.js samples covering a wide set of common use cases.
The released pre-built reference players if you want direct access without writing any Javascript.
The nightly build of the /dev branch reference player, is pre-release but contains the latest fixes. It is a good place to start if you are debugging playback problems.
The latest minified files have been hosted on a global CDN and are free to use in production:
In addition, all the releases are available under the following urls. Replace "vx.x.x" with the release version, for instance "v3.1.0".
Full API Documentation is available describing all public methods, interfaces, properties, and events.
For help, join our Slack channel, our email list and read our wiki.
Detailed information on specific topics can be found in our tutorials:
The standard setup method uses javascript to initialize and provide video details to dash.js. MediaPlayerFactory provides an alternative declarative setup syntax.
Create a video element somewhere in your html. For our purposes, make sure the controls attribute is present.
<video id="videoPlayer" controls></video>
Add dash.all.min.js to the end of the body.
<body>
...
<script src="yourPathToDash/dash.all.min.js"></script>
</body>
Now comes the good stuff. We need to create a MediaPlayer and initialize it.
var url = "https://dash.akamaized.net/envivio/EnvivioDash3/manifest.mpd";
var player = dashjs.MediaPlayer().create();
player.initialize(document.querySelector("#videoPlayer"), url, true);
When it is all done, it should look similar to this:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Dash.js Rocks</title>
<style>
video {
width: 640px;
height: 360px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<video id="videoPlayer" controls></video>
</div>
<script src="yourPathToDash/dash.all.min.js"></script>
<script>
(function(){
var url = "https://dash.akamaized.net/envivio/EnvivioDash3/manifest.mpd";
var player = dashjs.MediaPlayer().create();
player.initialize(document.querySelector("#videoPlayer"), url, true);
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
We publish dash.js to npm. Examples of how to use dash.js in different module
bundlers can be found in the samples/modules directory.
An alternative way to build a Dash.js player in your web page is to use the MediaPlayerFactory. The MediaPlayerFactory will automatically instantiate and initialize the MediaPlayer module on appropriately tagged video elements.
Create a video element somewhere in your html and provide the path to your mpd file as src. Also ensure that your video element has the data-dashjs-player attribute on it.
<video data-dashjs-player autoplay src="https://dash.akamaized.net/envivio/EnvivioDash3/manifest.mpd" controls>
</video>
Add dash.all.min.js to the end of the body.
<body>
...
<script src="yourPathToDash/dash.all.min.js"></script>
</body>
When it is all done, it should look similar to this:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Dash.js Rocks</title>
<style>
video {
width: 640px;
height: 360px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<video data-dashjs-player autoplay src="https://dash.akamaized.net/envivio/EnvivioDash3/manifest.mpd" controls>
</video>
</div>
<script src="yourPathToDash/dash.all.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
git clone https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js.gitnpm installnpm run startnpm run buildnpm run devnpm run lintnpm run testnpm run docdash.js is released under BSD license
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