Which web browsers support the MPEG-DASH streaming protocol?

Question

I have found something bellow:

According to: This Link

DASH is supported by any browser any browser that supports the W3C Media Source Extensions (MSE), today that is Chrome and IE11

And here

Firefox 21 includes an implementation of DASH for HTML5 WebM video which is turned off by default. It can be enabled via "about:config" and the "media.dash.enabled" preference. Firefox 23 removed support for DASH for HTML5 WebM video

But I can only made it run in Chrome(23+). Could you tell me all browsers that support DASH MPEG for streaming video?

Answer 1

Browsers do not support MPEG-DASH natively

Websites need JavaScript libraries to play DASH streaming. These open source MPEG-DASH player libraries require MSE support in the browser:

• dash.js: official reference implementation
• Shaka Player: Google's player library

Other clients:

• dashas: open source client written in Flash (so no MSE support needed)
• commercial clients

MSE Support in Browsers

• Chrome 23
• IE 11 (only on Windows 8+)
• Edge
• Safari 8.0 (only on OS X, not on iOS)
• Firefox 42
• Opera 20, only WebM, no h.264 yet (as of 26)

Also, the HLS implementation in Safari 10 (both iOS and Mac) now supports MPEG-DASH mp4 fragments, which means you don't need to generate your media fragments twice to support HLS and MPEG-DASH. You only need two types of manifest files.

You can try out the official MPEG-DASH test vectors in your own browser.

More MSE browser support information: caniuse, JW Player, HTML5test

Answer 2

Browser support for MPEG-DASH is indeed mainly based on the MSE - Media Source Extensions specification as of today. It can be used in combination with an HTML5 video tag to playback MPEG-DASH stream within a browser. Plus there are some codecs consideration to take on board. A list of browsers that can support MPEG-DASH with the MSE extension follows:

• Chrome 23+: DASH264 and WebM Dash
• IE 11 on Windows 8+: DASH264
• MS Edge: DASH264
• Opera 20+: WebM Dash. Opera 30+ also support DASH264.
• Safari 8+ on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10): DASH264 ... that seemed to be broken during my testing
• Chrome 34+ on Android 4.2+: DASH264 and WebM Dash
• Firefox 42+: DASH264 (WebM Dash seems to be coming)

No support:

• iOS 8 Safari does not provide support

Radiant Media Player (disclaimer: I am the founder) supports MPEG-DASH (DASH264) for on-demand and live video streaming in HTML5 with various fallback options.

Note: MPEG-DASH is not as such a streaming protocol, it is a container format like MPEG-4 (ie the MPEG in MPEG-DASH) the delivery protocol being HTTP

Answer 3

There is the bitdash MPEG-DASH player which works on any web browser:

• IE11 (Windows 8) and Chrome use the HTML5 (MSE) + JavaScript based implementation.
• All other browsers (which do not support the HTML5 Media Source Extentions) get a Flash-based MPEG-DASH player.

On top of that comes a unified API, so if someone uses bitdash s/he has not to pay attention weather the HTML5 or the Flash version is used.

A free version is avalable on http://dash-player.com

Answer 4

MPEG DASH is a streaming protocol and strives to be agnostic in regards of the audio and video codecs. For example it may carry video encoded using H.264, HEVC, VP8 or VP9 codecs.

Whether a browser is capable of playing back different content depends on the codecs it supports, not its MPEG DASH compatibility.

For Firefox, you can see the list of supported codecs here

Regarding MPEG DASH protocol specific compatibility, there is an Open Source reference player that perhaps you want to try: DASH.js