How to configure cloudFront playback for ABR HLS streams transcoded from webRTC

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi there,

I have Streaming Engine installed on a linux EC2 instance in AWS. I’m able to ingest a webRTC input and transcode it to adaptive bitrate HLS. The only way I could playback the ABR HLS stream was to connect to Streaming Engine like this:

http://[identifier].streamlock.net/[application]/smil:[name].smil/playlist.m3u8

However, we’d like to use cloudFront as our CDN. I created a Live HTTP Origin application and the cloudFront distro. However, the documentation is a little unclear on how to link the HLS streams to cloudFront. I think I need to create generic MPEG-TS stream targets for each rendition. But even if I were to do that, how does the master m3u8 file get created and updated in cloudFront? And what’s the URL schema for playback? For example, I don’t think I’d be able to use the application name or the smil parameter. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Trevor

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Let me see if we have some documentation for this here at Wowza.

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We have this article on how to integrate CloudFront with a lot of examples- I hope this helps you. You can always send a support ticket too!

https://www.wowza.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions-cloudfront#integrate