Mux Player uses Hls.js

[dylanjha]

In Summer 2022 we released the public version of Mux Player, it's implemented as a web component, it uses Hls.js internally. It's also all open source, so feel free to dig around. Links:

• Mux Player marketing page: mux.com/player and the docs
• <mux-player> source
• <MuxPlayer /> react component source
• Hls.js usage (in the playback-core lib, which is shared between of bunch of the various playback-related packages in the repo)

The UI for Mux Player like the controls is built with Media Chrome. We found that Media Chrome works well when paired with Hls.js because they handle 2 separate concerns: (1) the actual requesting manifests & media segments, downloading it, parsing it and playing it is done by Hls.js and (2) the UI of controls that the user can internact with is done by Media Chrome.