cupertinoRelativePlaylistPlaylists in Wowza 3.6.2

Wowza Developer Dojo
1

Wowza Media Server 3 Perpetual Edition 3.6.2 build5334

We’ve noticed when cupertinoRelativePlaylistPlaylists is set to false Wowza seems to generate bad chunklist URLs and the player requests the same chunks under multiple session IDs. This causes the stream to jump back and repeat every once in a while.

Here’s an example of the URL that is generated in the [application]/playlist.m3u8

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:10:27 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: FlashCom/3.5.7
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 258
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2246082,CODECS="avc1.66.41",RESOLUTION=1280x720
http://10.4.1.24/live/test.stream/chunklist%7Bsessionid%7D%7Bbitrate%7D%7BplayStart%7D%7BplayDuration%7D%7Bdvr%7D%7BaudioOnly%7D%7Bngrp%7D.m3u8

Whereas when the parameter is set to ‘true’ everything works as expected with the session ID remaining constant:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:16:08 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: FlashCom/3.5.7
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 141
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2369712,CODECS="avc1.66.41",RESOLUTION=1280x720
chunklist_w2116129604.m3u8
2

Hi,

This was fixed in Wowza Media Server 3.6.2.01 build5359

Please download the latest patch from the Development Builds page.

Roger.