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shaka-project/shaka-player

JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player

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shaka-project/shaka-player has 8k+ stars and 1.5k+ forks on GitHub, is written in JavaScript, and was last pushed on Oct 16, 2026. Data as of . Signed-in members get hourly updates — create a free account.

Summary Information

Updated 50 minutes ago
Type:Library / SDKCategory(s):Real-Time Media & StreamingNetworking & Communication
Added to GitGenius on June 23rd, 2022
Created on December 19th, 2014
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 53 (+0)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 1,526
Total Stargazers: 8,251 (+0)
Total Subscribers: 211 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 9.1 hours
Mean response time: 136.1 days
90th percentile: 175.2 days
Tracked items: 1,151

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Maintainer activity

44 people did triage or write work on this repository in the last 12 months.

Counts unlabeled, assigned, unassigned, milestoned, demilestoned, locked, unlocked over the last 12 months. These are issue and pull request events that require triage or write permission. Commits and code review are not counted. labeled and renamed are excluded because GitHub issue forms record the issue author as the actor. Figures from October 18, 2026. This count is not comparable across projects: each project's automation decides which of these events a person emits. How this is counted.

How this project is maintained

About 3% of issues opened in the past year have never received a reply. 70% of open issues come from outside the core team, so the backlog reflects real-world use rather than internal planning. Work labelled "priority: P1" is answered fastest, typically in about 6 hours, while "priority: P3" waits about 2 days. 91% of issues opened in the past year have since been closed. Three people close 85% of everything that gets resolved.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 45
New in 7 days: 4
Closed in 7 days: 2
Avg open age: 826 days
Stale 30+ days: 29
Stale 90+ days: 0

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 4
Closed in 7 days: 2
Comments in 7 days: 2
Events in 7 days: 7

Top labels

  • status: archived (2,506)
  • type: bug (1,032)
  • type: question (626)
  • type: enhancement (408)
  • priority: P2 (336)
  • priority: P1 (248)
  • priority: P3 (203)
  • component: HLS (199)

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Detailed Description

Shaka Player is an open-source JavaScript library designed to play adaptive media formats including DASH and HLS directly in web browsers without requiring plugins or Flash. The library leverages modern web standards such as MediaSource Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions to deliver adaptive bitrate streaming capabilities. It also supports offline storage and playback of media using IndexedDB, with license storage depending on individual browser capabilities.

The repository demonstrates significant community engagement and maintenance activity. The repository shares contributors with major projects including Microsoft's VSCode and TypeScript, as well as the Rust language project.

Shaka Player supports an extensive platform matrix covering desktop browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mobile support extends to Android and iOS devices, with native playback support on iOS 9 and later. The library also supports specialized platforms including Chromecast, Tizen TV, WebOS, Hisense, Vizio, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and 5, Titan OS, and TiVo OS, though many of these are community-supported rather than actively tested by the core team.

For DASH content, Shaka Player supports VOD, Live, and In-Progress Recordings with features including multi-period content, Xlink elements, various segment index formats, multi-codec manifests, encrypted content with key rotation, trick mode tracks, WebVTT and TTML subtitles, CEA-608/708 captions, and MPD chaining.

The library includes experimental support for MOQT streaming format with draft-14 and draft-16 compliance, supporting audio, video, and text with adaptive bitrate and DRM capabilities. It also provides MPEG-5 Part2 LCEVC decoding support on browsers with Media Source Extensions SourceBuffer support. The design philosophy emphasizes keeping the library lightweight, simple, and free from third-party dependencies, with all necessary build and deployment resources included in the source code. The project maintains multiple active branches with documented maintenance schedules and provides a development roadmap for future enhancements.