Even the source code can be reviewed and evaluated. Open source media players are entirely free for the general public to download and use. Some additional benefits include - Free To Use

Given the vastly improved scrutiny around security, the availability of patches and bug fixes, open source video players are free to use without licensing fees and cumbersome, contracts. Video players built with proprietary software use private source code and is offered via licensing where users need to pay for and agree to the different terms and conditions before being able to use the player. Many businesses and individual users prefer to go the open source route as it does away with the procurement barrier. The only exception is, on IE11, you need to switch to HLS v3 URL.Open source video players offer some advantages over players developed with proprietary software. So in summary, HLS streams from Azure Media Services should work in video.js player on all these browsers, both HLS v3 and v4. HLS v3 format string: (format=m3u8-aapl-v3).Fortunately, Azure Media Services allows you to easily choose between v3 and v4 of HLS So the net result is: HLS v4 doesĪll we need to do is to detect the browser type and use the corresponding v3 version of HLS URL in IE11. If you switch back to “unknown”, both audio and video start to work but only play for about 10 - 30 seconds before it stops. If you click on the audio icon at bottom right of the player and select “audio”, video-only works. To test, you can comment the code for changing URL to v3 in the test player. Įven though video.js HLS Source Handler does not support HLS v4 in IE11, video-only mode works in IE11 for HLS v4. I have reported this bug to the video.js community. By default, Azure Media Services produces HLS v4. I found that video.js HLS Source Handler has a bug: it supports only HLS v3 on IE11, but not HLS v4. Video.js no longer supports IE 8, 9, 10 starting from video.js 7 Here is the test result of running AMS HLS streams (both live and on-demand) in the above test player in 11 different browsersįlash is no longer supported on Android 4.1+ Video.js, video.js HLS Source Handler and videojs-flash to support older browsers Long URL on mac, you can navigate from the URL: aka.ms/poc -> click on item # 19 -> click on the last row in the table). The test player URL: (If you don’t want to type the.

Here is a test player I created for such a test:

Hls .js vs video.js