HLS Cannot download .m3u8 playlist file

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello friends, something really really fishy is going over here, I have setup one origin/loadbalancer server and a edge server, the RTMP streams work as they should pretty good, although when I try to get the m3u8 playlist file from a URL like this: [HTML]http://37.203.209.34:1935/share/definst/test/playlist.m3u8[/HTML] it only shows this:[HTML]Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Monthly Edition 4.4.1 build17882[/HTML]

and no .m3u8 file is downloaded, I will attach some printscreens too of the application setup:

Origin:

Edge:

Please if someone can help me I really appreciate it!

Thanks, Nikon

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Can someone help me please? I cannot understand whats wrong with the configuration.

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Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

Have you tried including the stream name in the url? For example:

http://37.203.209.34:1935/share/_definst_/test/myStream/playlist.m3u8

Regards,

Salvadore

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Okay, yes sorry for the mix up. If that is the case then are you testing this URL in an iOS device?

Salvadore

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Hi,

That is an HLS URL, which is only playable natively in Safari browsers on OSX/iOS. If you enter that URL in a browser on a Windows PC then it will simply download the playlist.m3u8 file.

I was able to play http://37.203.209.34:1935/share/definst/test/playlist.m3u8 using VLC. It was also playable using the JWPlayer Stream Tester on other browsers/OS’s (untick “Attempt to render in HTML5” first),

Paul

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Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

Have you tried including the stream name in the url? For example:

http://37.203.209.34:1935/share/_definst_/test/myStream/playlist.m3u8

Regards,

Salvadore

Thank you for the reply, but I think the URL is ok, because the “share” is the app and “teste” is the stream name.

Or is it wrong?:confused:

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Okay, yes sorry for the mix up. If that is the case then are you testing this URL in an iOS device?

Salvadore

Well I didn’t but I should be able to download the playlist file to the PC right?

Because it does not generate the .m3u8 file.

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I use Allavsoft to download M3U8 videos to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, MP3 etc.

Here is the easy guide

http://www.allavsoft.com/how-to/m3u8-downloader.html

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I use M3U8 Player to download or live stream m3u8 directly. Actually, live streaming is a better way than downloading which will occupy storage.