Official support for LG WebOS TV

[kingctan]

Does this player support LG WebOS TV for DASH&playready combination?
Thanks.

[chrisfillmore]

I don't think that Shaka team has investigated this platform specifically. Generally speaking, Shaka supports any platform that is spec-compliant, but in my experience these kinds of smart TV platforms are not very mature and require extensive testing, validation, and workarounds. Things are getting better, though.

We will soon be investigating LG WebOS for DASH-PR, so you may soon see tickets related to this platform, and you'll get a better sense for whether or not Shaka will work on these TV's.

[joeyparrish]

We have never tested Shaka Player on this platform, but you can help by running our support page and sending a screenshot: https://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/support.html

This will tell us whether or not the platform has the basic capabilities we need, and if so, what specific containers, codecs, and DRM systems it has.

[avelad]

We are using ShakaPlayer with WebOS 3.5 and DASH+Widevine without any problem.

[ismena]

@kingctan Does this answer your question? Is there anything else we can do?

[chrisfillmore]

@ismena I have a question. It seems there are at least 3 projects using Shaka on LG WebOS: @kingctan, @avelad, and me. Would Shaka team be willing to adopt this as an officially supported platform?

[avelad]

@chrisfillmore , What versions of WebOS have you tried? I only tried WebOS 3.5.

[ismena]

Let's get our TL to consider it!
@joeyparrish

[shaka-bot]

@kingctan Does this answer all your questions? Can we close the issue?

[joeyparrish]

If you can send us some documentation on WebOS testing, we could consider adding a WebOS device to our test lab. We can't call it an officially supported platform until we are running tests on it nightly to make sure we don't break it. But in general, expanding our platform coverage is a Good Thing:tm:.

In particular, we would appreciate any tips on how to automate directing the device to an arbitrary URL. That's a key part of the testing process with Karma.

[shaka-bot]

@kingctan Does this answer all your questions? Can we close the issue?