Question: Does iOS 10 support MediaSource yet?

[aletorrado]

Hi,

Have anyone tried the iOS 10 Preview, and tested if it supports MediaSource yet?

Thanks :)

[joeyparrish]

I had a colleague try our support test page on iOS 10 preview, and it appears that it still does not have MSE support. We'll keep our fingers crossed for iOS 11. :-)

[OrenMe]

Asked a developer at WWDC. Doesn't seem like it's in the top of their priorities.
Told me to file an enhancement request radar J.

[neilRGS]

Tested as at Feb 7th 2017. IOS still can't use Shaka (Tried Safari and Chrome on iPad).
Shame on you, Apple!

[ghost]

One question though, how does dashjs play on ios?

[joeyparrish]

@Portmansa, does dashjs indeed play on iOS? I haven't been able to make their demo page work on iOS at all.

caniuse.com reports that MediaSource is still not available on iOS 10.3: http://caniuse.com/#feat=mediasource

Just searching quickly through dashjs source, I see that MediaPlayer's initialize() method fails if MediaSource is not present. Further, the MediaSource check allows for a prefixed version called WebKitMediaSource.

So it would seem that the only way iOS could be supported in dashjs directly is if WebKitMediaSource were available on iOS. I just checked both Safari & Chrome on iOS 10.3, and WebKitMediaSource is not defined.

[ghost]

@joeyparrish Yeah, I got it working on iOS with HLS. Live streaming was working too

[joeyparrish]

iOS has a native HLS implementation. Essentially, when you use HLS with dashjs, you aren't using dashjs for playback at all.

[ghost]

@joeyparrish BTW, can shaka player play HLS on iOS?

[joeyparrish]

Shaka Player only uses MediaSource. If you want to bypass MediaSource, then you don't need Shaka Player. Just do something like video.src = '/foo.m3u8';. I'm not sure what value Shaka Player could add in that scenario.

[mayeaux]

Do we have any idea when Apple plans to support MSE API?

[joeyparrish]

Sorry, we don't know anything. Any authoritative answers about about future MSE support on iOS would have to come from Apple.

However, we will support a fallback to iOS's native HLS support in #997.

[joeyparrish]

Oh, and here are links to Apple's bug trackers if you are interested in talking to them:

Apple Bug Reporter: https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/
WebKit BugZilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/