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Overview

Quickplay Player

The Quickplay Player is a resilient, high performant and secure media playback library that allows seamless integrations for media consumption of clear and digitally protected content. This library abstracts complexities around integration with DRM services, players, ad servers, reporting platforms etc. aiding rapid application development.

Features

Player Features
*Download feature is available for Android & iOS platforms only.
  • Media Playback - Play, Pause, and Resume playback of live, streaming VOD content
  • Streaming Video - Supports HTTP-Adaptive Streaming (HTTP-AS) to enable smooth and continuous video/audio playback of streamed content under changing network conditions; HTTP-AS is considered the gold standard for quality streaming implementations
  • Asynchronous Design - Asynchronous event-driven APIs allow for immediate rendering of data and non-blocking user experience
  • DRM Support - Live Streaming, and VOD Streaming are all supported for unprotected content and content protected with Apple Widevine Modular and Google Widevine

Library Design

The Quickplay Player consists of a set of interfaces that allow playback of protected content in a secure manner.

The Quickplay Player Library is built on a modular architecture, where each module provides a specific feature. The modules can be composed together based on the needs of an application.

The Quickplay Player API features a predominantly asynchronous design to reduce interface latency for improved UI performance. The asynchronous calls prevent the UI from blocking and allow greater perceived performance for the user.

The diagram below shows an overview of the various modules in the Quickplay Player.

*Download feature is available for Android & iOS platforms only.

Foundation Manager

Encapsulates the following aspects:

  • Logging
  • Storage
  • Network
  • Error Handling

Player

Native or third party player which is invoked through the secured playback module

Secured Playback

Encapsulates the following features:

  • Playback/Download of Clear Contents
  • Playback/Download of DRM Protected Contents
  • License Caching for Offline Playback
  • Queued Downloads

FLAdvertising

The FLAdvertising plugins enables quick and easy client-side ad insertion into an app. It wraps the functionality of the client-side IMA SDK to support playback of VAST/VMAP ad tags.

FLPlayerAPI

FLPlayerInterface is a lightweight plugin that houses all the player related public interfaces.

BrowserSupport

Desktop

BrowserSupported VersionStreaming FormatDRMPlayer
ChromeLast 3 Major VersionsMPEG-DASHWidevine ModularShaka Player
ChromeLast 3 Major VersionsHLSNoneShaka Player
FirefoxLast 3 Major VersionsMPEG-DASHWidevine ModularShaka Player
FirefoxLast 3 Major VersionsHLSNoneShaka Player
EdgeWindows 11+ (64 bit)MPEG-DASHPlayreadyShaka Player
EdgeWindows 11+ (64 bit)HLSNoneShaka Player
EdgeLast 3 Major VersionsMPEG-DASHWidevineShaka Player
EdgeLast 3 Major VersionsHLSNoneShaka Player
SafariLast 3 Major VersionsHLSFairplayShaka Player
SafariLast 3 Major VersionsHLSNoneShaka Player

TVs and Streaming Devices

DeviceSupported VersionStreaming FormatDRMPlayer
Samsung TizenTizen 5.0 +MPEG-DASHWidevine ModularShaka Player
LG WebOSWebOS 6.0 +HLSWidevine ModularShaka Player
XboxXbox One, SeriesXDASHPlayreadyShaka Player
Comcast X1Xi6DASHWidevine ModularShaka Player
Playstation 4Last 3 Major VersionsDASHPlayreadyShaka Player
Playstation 5Last 3 Major VersionsDASHPlayreadyShaka Player
VizioLast 3 Major VersionsDASHWidevine ModularShaka Player

Note

Support for iOS 12 and Safari 12 has been removed from shaka version 4.0 +.