This doc shows all past and planned future milestones for Shaka Player, with brief details about the goals and rough dates of each milestone. This is not a comprehensive list of features or fixes for each release. For that, see CHANGELOG.md.
The goals of future milestones are fluid until we begin that development cycle, so the exact milestone for future features is not pre-determined.
Candidate features for future release cycles:
- Background fetch for offline storage #879
- A method to stitch together clips #764
- Predict next segment in DASH SegmentTimeline #898
- Smaller, more modular binary
v5.0 - 2024 Q4
- Conversion to Typescript
v4.10 - 2024 Q3
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v4.9 - 2024 Q2
- DASH patch manifests #2228
- DASH: MPD chaining #3926
- Support CS on devices that don't support multiple media elements #2792
v4.8 - 2024 Q2
- Preload API #880
- AES-256 and AES-256-CTR (HLS) #6001
- Detect maximum HW resolution automatically on some platforms
- UI support for VR content
v4.7 - 2023 Q4
- Common Media Server Data (CMSD) #5890
- DASH: Handle mixed-codec variants #5961
- Allow Media Source Recoveries
- UI: Add double tap to forward/rewind in the video #3357
- Improve npm package size #2172
v4.6 - 2023 Q4
- Content Steering #5704
- New DASH protocol for Low Latency.
- ManagedMediaSource #5271
- Add thumbnails support in src=
- Remove state engine
v4.5 - 2023 Q4
- Built-in transmuxer support for muxed content streams (audio+video)
- Built-in transmuxer support for H265 streams
- Remove optional mux.js dependency
- Codec switching #1528
- AES-128 in DASH. #5622
- AWS Elemental MediaTailor
v4.4 - 2023 Q3
- Built-in transmuxer for common cases, no mux.js required:
- Raw AAC, AC3, or EC3 to MP4 container
- AAC, AC3, EC3, MP3, or H264 in TS to MP4 container
- MP3-in-TS to raw MP3
- Ads API improvements
- CEA parser for TS
- HLS support for non-sequence mode (as we had in v3)
- Partial support for large timestamps
- UI support for thumbnails on seek
- Microsoft SmoothStreaming support
- Segment prefetch
- Low latency improvements
v4.3 - 2022 Q4
v4.2 - 2022 Q3
v4.1 - 2022 Q2
v4.0 - 2022 Q2
v3.3 - 2022 Q1
v3.2 - 2021 Q3
- MediaCapabilities to make performance-based decisions #1391
- Configurable key-system priority #3002
- Codec order preferences #2179
v3.1 - 2021 Q2
- Low-latency live (LL-HLS, LL-DASH) #1525
- Own CEA parser, use mux.js only for TS #2648
- Thumbnail tracks DASH: #559 HLS: #2429
v3.0 - 2020 Q2
- Code health improvements
- Conversion to ES6
- Isolate DASH periods to the DASH parser
- HLS discontinuity support
- IMA ad SDK integration
- Ad controls in the UI
- Concurrent Storage operations
v2.5 - 2019 Q2
- Video controls UI API
- FairPlay & iOS support
- CEA captions in HLS/CMAF and DASH w/ mux.js
- Single-file playback
- DASH drift tolerance
v2.4 - 2018 Q2
- TTML and VTT regions
- CEA captions in HLS/TS
- Attach/detach API
v2.3 - 2017 Q4
- HLS live
- Transmux TS w/ mux.js
- NetworkInformation API to improve bandwidth estimates
- ES6 transition begins
v2.2 - 2017 Q3
- HLS event-type playlists
- TextDisplayer interface
- DASH xlink support
v2.1 - 2017 Q2
- HLS VOD, clear & Widevine only, no CEA
- DASH trick mode tracks
- Async network filters
v2.0 - 2016 Q3
- Multi-period DASH
- Chromecast API
- TTML, VTT-in-MP4, and TTML-in-MP4
- Safari, Firefox, & Opera support
- Plugin system (manifest parsers, network filters, text parsers)
- DASH emsg box support
- DASH IPR support
v1.6 - 2015 Q4
- IE11, Edge, & PlayReady support
- Chromecast added to demo app
v1.5 - 2015 Q3
- Unified configuration system
- Multiple DASH BaseURL elements for failover
- Side-loaded text streams
v1.4 - 2015 Q3
- Code health release
- DASH Location element support
- Buffering config API
- License preprocessing API
v1.3 - 2015 Q2
- DASH live
- Offline playback
v1.2 - 2015 Q1
- DASH Role element support
v1.1 - 2015 Q1
- EME API updates
v1.0 - 2014 Q4
- DASH VOD (MP4 & WebM)
- VTT subtitles, rendered by the browser
- Widevine support