Generate MBR Smil for Live Transcoder dynamically for Dash / HLS ?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi there we would like to try MBR Live streams possibly via the trancoder. Is it possible to generate the smil dynamically for Dash / HLS ?

There is this but it’s not ideal it’s just generated the smil output.

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-generate-a-smil-file-with-an-http-provider

In this documentation it requires some manual process to configure the smil files and the MBR streams. It kind of should be all dynamic, no files required ?

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-create-and-play-smil-files-with-streams-created-by-wowza-transcoder

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I just discovered this

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-java-api-calls-to-resolve-smil-file-requests

The smil needs to be requested like “amlst:myStream” but how can it generate a list from the live transcoder information ? like stream name, bitrate, dimensions etc ?

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Hi electroteque,

You could also use Stream Name Groups. These are automatically generated smil “like” file that are part of the Transcoder profile.

You can find more information here.

This is probably easier that setting up additional modules.

Regards,

Alex