How Set HLS EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hello,

I saw the release notes on Wowza 3.6.3. There’s an update about the HLS option attribute, EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE that is added to the HTTPStreamer/Property string properties. It seemed to be that this option is disable by default as the attribute not added to the chunklist.

How to enable this property to make EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE added to the chunklist?

thanks.

Joey

2

Joey,

You can add headers in the Application.xml /HTTPStreamers Properties container. Detail here

Richard

3

Sorry about. HERE it is

Richard

4

Did you do head request? That is where you will see it.

Richard

5

Hi,

Please can you try these properties in the HTTPStreamer section.

cupertinoVODPlaylistType

VOD

cupertinoLivePlaylistType

VOD

This should resolve the issue for you.

Andrew.

6

Hi,

I would set the playlist type to EVENT when doing live this then supports the draft specification. The drafts have changed over time and will continue to do so including/removing it may cause problems elsewhere.

Andrew.

7

Richard,

The “Detail here” redirect me to this thread with a new tab opened. Which property should be add to headers in the Application.xml /HTTPStreamers is unknown.

Could you please check the link?

Joey

8

Richard,

I added following code to the Application.xml

		<HTTPStreamer>
			<!-- Properties defined here will override any properties defined in conf/HTTPStreamers.xml for any HTTPStreamer loaded by this applications -->
			<Properties>
			    <Property>
				    <Name>cupertinoUserHTTPHeaders</Name>
				    <Value>EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD</Value>
				</Property>
			</Properties>
		</HTTPStreamer>

But EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE is not in the playlist.m3u8 or chunklist.m3u8. Is there anything that I set wrong?

Joey

9

Hi Andrew,

Those properties worked! Thanks a lot.

One thing that needed to be clarified is the value of cupertinoLivePlaylistType property.

From the HLS Draft, it suggests that a Live Playlist MUST NOT contain the EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE tag. It seems like this tag should not be used on live.

Do you have any suggestion?

Joey