Play HLS, DASH, and future HTTP streaming protocols with video.js, even where they're not natively supported.

Included in video.js 7 by default! See the video.js 7 blog post

Maintenance Status: Stable

Video.js Compatibility: 7.x, 8.x

• Installation
  • NPM
  • CDN
  • Releases
  • Manual Build
• Contributing
• Troubleshooting
• Talk to us
• Getting Started
• Compatibility
  • Browsers which support MSE
  • Native only
  • DRM
• Documentation
  • Options
    • How to use
      • Initialization
      • Source
    • List
      • withCredentials
      • useCueTags
      • parse708captions
      • overrideNative
      • experimentalUseMMS
      • playlistExclusionDuration
      • maxPlaylistRetries
      • bandwidth
      • useBandwidthFromLocalStorage
      • enableLowInitialPlaylist
      • limitRenditionByPlayerDimensions
      • useDevicePixelRatio
      • usePlayerObjectFit
      • customPixelRatio
      • allowSeeksWithinUnsafeLiveWindow
      • customTagParsers
      • customTagMappers
      • cacheEncryptionKeys
      • handlePartialData
      • liveRangeSafeTimeDelta
      • useNetworkInformationApi
      • useDtsForTimestampOffset
      • useForcedSubtitles
      • captionServices
        • Format
        • Example
  • Runtime Properties
    • vhs.playlists.main
    • vhs.playlists.media
    • vhs.systemBandwidth
    • vhs.bandwidth
    • vhs.throughput
    • vhs.selectPlaylist
    • vhs.representations
    • vhs.xhr
    • vhs.stats
  • Events
    • loadedmetadata
    • xhr-hooks-ready
  • VHS Usage Events
    • Presence Stats
    • Use Stats
  • In-Band Metadata
  • Segment Metadata
  • Object as Source
• Hosting Considerations
• Known Issues and Workarounds
  • Fragmented MP4 Support
  • Assets with an Audio-Only Rate Get Stuck in Audio-Only
  • DASH Assets with $Time Interpolation and SegmentTimelines with No t
• Testing
• Debugging
• Release History
• Building
• Development
  • Tools
  • Commands

Installation

In most cases it is not necessary to separately install http-streaming, as it has been included in the default build of Video.js since version 7.

Only install if you need a specifc combination of video.js and http-streaming versions. If installing separately, use the "core" version of Video.js without the bundled version of http-streaming.

NPM

To install videojs-http-streaming with npm, run

npm install --save @videojs/http-streaming

CDN

Select a version of VHS from the CDN

Releases

Download a release of videojs-http-streaming

Manual Build

Download a copy of this git repository and then follow the steps in Building

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Troubleshooting

See our troubleshooting guide

Talk to us

Drop by the Video.js slack.

Getting Started

This library is included in Video.js 7 by default.

Only if need a specific combination of versions of Video.js and VHS you can get a copy of videojs-http-streaming and include it in your page along with video.js. In this case, you should use the "core" build of Video.js, without a bundled VHS: