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Prototype Progressive Web App using Shaka Player to save Videos for Offline Viewing

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Prototype Progressive Web App using Shaka Player to save Videos for Offline Viewing

Watch streaming videos or save them in your browsers IndexedDB for offline viewing.


  1. You need to have Node.js installed.
  2. When inside this directory (awt-pwa) run npm install.
  3. Start the dev server with npm start.
  4. Navigate to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run deploy

Builds the app and deploys to github-pages.


Known Issues

  1. IOS - on IOS 13 (Beta) on mini Ipad : Available storage space is listed as 100mb but is not accurate and is not updated, user can store more. and used space is always 0.
  2. IOS - The 4th video "Another Stream" does not work on IOS for some reason.. might be the video format.
  3. Shaka Player - If the audio language and the subtitle language are the same, Shaka Player automatically does not show the subtitles.. did not find an option to force it.
  4. Storage - If there is not enough available storage space to download a certain video, it will begin downloading anyway until the storage is full, afterwhich it will simply stop without freeing the uses storage.
  5. Storage - Available storage space seems to differ even with the same browser type, OS and device, no clear reason as to why.
  6. Storage - Available storage space is not updated instantly after deleting a video, remains saved in cache.