Hello,
I get a problem with a HLS stream playback - the direct link is playlist.m3u8. If i add the url to iPhone Safari it’s just will try to connect 3 time, my play button will jump at the top of screen a few moments later, will be crossed.
But if i will get the chunklist from the playlist file - it will run smoothly with no problem.
What can be wrong with a server?
The screen preview:
With a Wireshark i found some interesting details, seems like iphone just doesn’t SEND request to get media.ts fiels 
Here a jpg log from a wireshark TCP Follow stream.
If u will put some guess by codec or streaming server version - it doesn’t matter, the streams was also switched between these two - the results the same, smt my in iphone safari?
Hello there. You said
the direct link is playlist.m3u8
The URL you use to play the stream should take this format:
http://[wowza-ip-address]:[port-number]/[live-application-name]/[stream-name]/playlist.m3u8
for example
http://[wowza-ip]:1935/live/myStream/playlist.m3u8
Regards,
Salvadore