Custom MPD redirect

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Already posted as comment on the MPEG-DASH page. No feedback so trying here:

Is it possible, or can it be made possible, to force the Wowza IP address (instead of domain) in the mpd manifest Location?

Our problem:

Clients are directed to the liverepeater-edge server pool through DNS round robin. The client’s live stream freezes, when a browser tries to access a different edge after a DNS refresh.

Player sends initial request to server A streampool.com/mystream and receives a mpd with Location streampool.com/mystream_with_session

Minutes later the browser resolves DNS for streampool.com again, and lands on a different server, where the session does not exist, and stream stops

I guess this would be solved if the mpd Location response contained an IP address instead of domain.

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Hi,

You can set the domain name (or ip address) to use in the Location header by setting the following property

Path: /Root/Application/HTTPStreamer/Properties

Name: mpegdashPlaylistHostDomain

Value: 1.2.3.4

Type: String

This should fix the location header however, it may also need a BaseURL tag that isn’t currently supported. Our engineers are aware of the issue and are looking into it.

Roger.