mpegts.js

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HTML5 MPEG2-TS stream player written in TypeScript & JavaScript.

mpegts.js is optimized for low-latency live stream playback, such as DVB/ISDB television or surveillance cameras.

This project is based on flv.js.

Overview

mpegts.js works by transmuxing MPEG2-TS stream into ISO BMFF (Fragmented MP4) segments, followed by feeding mp4 segments into an HTML5 <video> element through Media Source Extensions API.

News

• v1.8.0

  Support working on iOS Safari with iOS 17.1+ through Apple's ManagedMediaSource API

  Great performance improvements by supporting MSE in Workers on Chrome, Safari 18 (includes iOS)

  Introduced support for AV1 over MPEG-TS

  Introduced support for AV1 over HTTP-FLV defined in Enhanced RTMP

  Support chasing live latency more smoothly by changing playback rate

  Introduced ATSC EAC-3 audio codec in MPEG-TS

  Support Opus and FLAC audio codec over HTTP-FLV (Enhanced RTMP)

• v1.7.3

  Introduced Enhanced RTMP with HEVC support for FLV.

  Introduced Opus and ATSC AC-3 audio codec support for MPEG-TS.

  Introduced LOAS AAC support for MPEG-TS.

• v1.7.0

  Introduced H.265/HEVC over MPEG-TS/FLV support.

Demo

http://xqq.github.io/mpegts.js/demo/

demo with aribb24.js

Features

• Playback for MPEG2-TS stream with H.264/H.265 + AAC codec transported in http(s) or WebSocket
• Playback for FLV stream with H.264/H.265 + AAC codec transported in http(s) or WebSocket
• Extremely low latency of less than 1 second in the best case
• Playback for .m2ts file like BDAV/BDMV with 192 bytes TS packet, or 204 bytes TS packet
• Support handling dynamic codec parameters change (e.g. video resolution change)
• Support Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Edge (Old or Chromium) or any Chromium-based browsers
• Support chasing latency automatically for internal buffer of HTMLMediaElement
• Low CPU overhead and low memory usage (JS heap takes about 10MiB for each instance)
• Support extracting PES private data (stream_type=0x06) like ARIB B24 subtitles (with aribb24.js)
• Support Timed ID3 Metadata (stream_type=0x15) callback (TIMED_ID3_METADATA_ARRIVED)

CORS

If you use standalone video server for MPEG2-TS stream, Access-Control-Allow-Origin header must be configured correctly on video server for cross-origin resource fetching.

See cors.md for more details.

Installation

npm install --save mpegts.js

Build

npm install                 # install dev-dependencies
npm install -g webpack-cli  # install build tool
npm run build               # packaged & minimized js will be emitted in dist folder

cnpm mirror is recommended if you are in Mainland China.

Getting Started

<script src="mpegts.js"></script>
<video id="videoElement"></video>
<script>
    if (mpegts.getFeatureList().mseLivePlayback) {
        var videoElement = document.getElementById('videoElement');
        var player = mpegts.createPlayer({
            type: 'mse',  // could also be mpegts, m2ts, flv
            isLive: true,
            url: 'http://example.com/live/livestream.ts'
        });
        player.attachMediaElement(videoElement);
        player.load();
        player.play();
    }
</script>

mpegts.js could be tested with Simple Realtime Server.

TODO

• MPEG2-TS static file playback (seeking is not supported now)

Limitations

• mpeg2video is not supported
• HTTP MPEG2-TS live stream could not work on old browsers like IE11
• mpegts.js is not usable on iOS version 17.0 or older caused by the banning of Media Source Extensions (available on iPadOS), iOS 17.1 works through Managed Media Source API

Features inherited from flv.js

• FLV container with H.264 + AAC / MP3 codec playback
• Multipart segmented video playback
• HTTP FLV low latency live stream playback
• FLV over WebSocket live stream playback
• Compatible with Chrome, FireFox, Safari 10, IE11 and Edge
• Extremely low overhead, and hardware accelerated by your browser!

FLV playback limitations

• MP3 audio codec is currently not working on IE11 / Edge
• HTTP FLV live stream is not currently working on all browsers, see livestream.md

FLV Multipart playback

You only have to provide a playlist for MediaDataSource. See multipart.md

Livestream playback

See livestream.md

API and Configuration

See api.md

Debug

npm install                 # install dev-dependencies
npm install -g webpack-cli  # install build tool
npm run build:debug         # packaged & minimized js will be emitted in dist folder

Design

See design.md

License

Copyright (C) 2021 magicxqq. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.