Streamlab is a cross-technology stream test tool for the browser, created by, and used by Vimond developers.
Experiment with, verify, or troubleshoot MPEG-DASH, HLS, CMAF, and smooth streams, or progressive video files.
The Streamlab provides a consistent and convenient user interface for playing adaptive streams through Shaka Player, RxPlayer, and HLS.js, or directly through the browser's internal stream support in the HTML <video> element.
It is built upon Replay, a full-featured open source React video player component facilitating adaptive stream playback, wrapping the mentioned adaptive streaming players.
Streamlab is intended to bring convenience to trying out streams in the browser.
Fill in stream URLs and configure playback, and the setup will be persisted between browser sessions (and closed/reopened tabs). All playback attempts are added to a history, and earlier stream URLs and other details can be restored and retried.
It displays context-aware messages providing information and guidance on technical stream details, and attempts to bring error details up to the surface when the stream doesn't play.
Streamlab supports live/DVR streams, DRM, subtitles, multiple audio tracks, according to the features of the adaptive player libraries' mentioned above. All modern browsers are supported.
Streamlab provides auto-detection of stream technologies (formats), and selects a preferred player library for playing it back. This can be overridden with manual selection of the player libraries mentioned above.
Sometimes it can be convenient running Streamlab locally in order to tweak extra settings, add more debugging, or get the benefit of less browser limitations through localhost. In brief, follow these steps to get it up and running, assuming having Node.js 10.16 or newer installed on your computer, along with npm.
- Clone this repo to your local computer.
- Run
npm install. - Run
npm start.
Streamlab is a React app, written with TypeScript, and built with the magnificent UI library Chakra UI.
It is simply an unejected Create React App, and adheres to the templates and routines provided by this scaffold. Along with that comes using Jest for unit tests, while Prettier is added on top for consistent code formatting. Yarn 1.x has been used for dependency management, however npm should also work fine.
Streamlab is an open source initiative from Vimond Media Solutions.
Streamlab is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Streamlab is developed by Tor Erik Alræk.