Since Radiant Media Player 5, we support download, storage and playback for offline content. This feature is provided as an event-driven API that allows developers to build an offline logic on top of the player. Our implementation is based on Shaka player offline capabilities which use IndexedDB for storage. Offline storage and playback support through hls.js or progressive download is not provided.
This feature should help developers building media applications with Radiant Media Player to comply with Google Progressive Web Apps requirements.
While the player should provide a straight-forward approach to adding offline support to your application or site, we recommend developers looking to implement this feature to first familiarise themselves with general offline concepts and limitations. This article, this article and this article should help.
Offline support is only provided for on-demand video streaming. Live and DVR streaming are not supported for offline storage and playback due to their nature.
Supported streaming protocols:
Supported:
Unsupported:
Untested:
How much can I store?
Users may be prompt by the browser to allow for more storage capacity before the above limits can be reached.
Read Google article Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps for more information on the subject.
The player automatically downloads and stores persistent licenses when available. Persistent licenses allow for offline playback of DRM protected content without the need for an Internet connection to access content.
Persistent licenses are supported in:
Persistent licenses could work in other environments like Opera 62+, MS Edge 79+ or Samsung Internet 13+ but those environments are not officially supported.
The following environments are not supported for DRM persistent licenses: Safari (all platforms), Firefox (all platforms).
Note that you will need to use DASH streaming to support DRM persistent licenses (PlayReady or Widevine DRM).
For other platforms, where storage of persistent licenses is not available you will get offline storage of protected content on all DRM-enabled browsers, at the cost of needing a network connection at playback time to retrieve licenses.
While we generally recommend using DASH for offline playback, you may also opt for HLS based on your project requirement. You will need the following:
hlsEngine: 'shakaplayer' player settingNote that persistent DRM licenses are not supported with HLS streaming.
shakaOffline: Boolean
Enables or not offline features in Radiant Media Player. Default: false.
shakaOfflinePreferredTrackQuality: Number
Specifies which quality to download for offline storage when multiple choices are available.
-4: uses Shaka player default selection algorithm which generally selects the highest non-HD quality-3: pick the highest available quality-2: pick the lowest available quality-1: pick the upper average qualityn (where n is an integer >= 0): pick the nth quality
Default: -1.
downloadstarted fires when download of content for offline playback has started, after
download API method has been called
downloadprogress fires each time new data is appended to offline storage for a given running downloaddownloadcompleted fires when download of content for offline playback has completed, after
download API method has been called
downloadlistavailable fires when the current download list is available for query, after calling
listDownloadedContent API method
downloadremoved fires when the targeted download has been removed from storage, after calling
removeDownload API method
abortdownloadcompleted fires when the targeted download has been aborted, after calling
abortDownload API method
isOnline()
rmp.isOnline();
Returns Boolean stating if the targeted device is online or offline. This method is based on
window.navigator.onLine API. It should be thus noted that a true result may not necessary mean that the viewer has a public access to the Internet
as she/he may just be in an Intranet or proxied environment. On the other hand a false result always mean the user has no public Internet connection.
hasDownloadSupport()
rmp.hasDownloadSupport();
Returns Boolean stating if the targeted device can download, store and play offline content.
listDownloadedContent() asynchronous
rmp.listDownloadedContent();
Request the player to query the current list of downloaded content. This method is asynchronous and will provide result through the getDownloadedList API method when the
downloadlistavailable API event fires.
getDownloadedList()
rmp.getDownloadedList();
This method must be queried when the downloadlistavailable API event fires. It will provide an Array representing the list of currently stored media item by the player (an empty Array is returned if no item is currently stored). Each
item of the Array will have its information stored as an Object with the following structure:
{
appMetadata: Object
duration: Number
expiration: Number
offlineUri: String
originalManifestUri: String
size: Number
}
download() asynchronous
rmp.download();
Request the player to start downloading content for offline storage. This
downloadcompleted API event will fire when download has finished, while the
downloadstarted and downloadprogress API events will give you status information about the download.
getDownloadProgress()
rmp.getDownloadProgress();
This method must be queried when downloadprogress API event fire and will return a
Number between 0 and 1 representing the progress for the current download. Returns -1 if this value is not available.
loadDownload(storedItem) asynchronous
rmp.loadDownload(content);
When a downloaded item has been listed with the getDownloadedList API method, this item can be passed to the loadDownload API method to start playing this item. When playback starts for a stored item the player will fire
a playing API event. If the player was not able to load and player the stored item a warning API event will fire.
removeDownload(storedItem) asynchronous
rmp.removeDownload(content);
When a downloaded item has been listed with the getDownloadedList API method, this item can be passed to the removeDownload API method to be removed from storage. When a item has been removed from storage, the downloadremoved API event will fire.
abortDownload() asynchronous
rmp.abortDownload();
When a download is currently running it is possible to abort it by calling this method. When a download has been aborted, the abortdownloadcompleted API event will fire.
The player will fire the following warning API event through the offline API. See the
error management docs for more information.
3001: storage has not been initialized (
shakaOffline setting is set to false or stream is not on-demand)3002: could not download offline content3003: could not list offline downloaded content3004: could not remove offline downloaded content3005: could not load offline content - invalid input3006: could not query temporary storage usage and availability3007: offline storage is not supported in this environmentTo help you get started we have released a full usage example with source code here.
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