videojs-contrib-hls/src/util/codecs.js

Play back HLS with video.js, even where it's not natively supported

/**
 * @file - codecs.js - Handles tasks regarding codec strings such as translating them to
 * codec strings, or translating codec strings into objects that can be examined.
 */

/**
 * Parses a codec string to retrieve the number of codecs specified,
 * the video codec and object type indicator, and the audio profile.
 */

export const parseCodecs = function(codecs = '') {
  let result = {
    codecCount: 0
  };
  let parsed;

  result.codecCount = codecs.split(',').length;
  result.codecCount = result.codecCount || 2;

  // parse the video codec
  parsed = (/(^|\s|,)+(avc1)([^ ,]*)/i).exec(codecs);
  if (parsed) {
    result.videoCodec = parsed[2];
    result.videoObjectTypeIndicator = parsed[3];
  }

  // parse the last field of the audio codec
  result.audioProfile =
    (/(^|\s|,)+mp4a.[0-9A-Fa-f]+\.([0-9A-Fa-f]+)/i).exec(codecs);
  result.audioProfile = result.audioProfile && result.audioProfile[2];

  return result;
};