HLS support for byte-range segments with single TS file

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi,

I’d like to know whether Wowza Streaming Engine supports byte-range segments in HLS.

The #EXT-X-BYTERANGE tag has been supported since HLS version 4.

FYI, my company (INKA ENTWORKS) developed HLS on-the-fly encryption(DRM) module which runs on Wowza Streaming Engine.

Plain MP4 VOD file is transcoded realtime into DRM-protected HLS by the module.

Currently the stream has many segmented ts files generated by Wowza.

But I’d like to get a merged single ts file with byterange playlist(m3u8).

It will make it easier to download HLS content for local playback, which is one of our solution feature.

I guess on-the-fly transcoding into single TS would be tricky, but hope there may be a solution for that.

Please let me know whether it is feasible and how to do it with Wowza Streaming Engine.

Thanks,

Daniel

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Hello,

Unfortunately we don’t support this in the way you are describing.

Wowza Streaming Engine doesn’t support the EXT-X-BYTE-RANGE tag, which basically tells the player to make byte range requests on the media file.

Andy_E