How to get HLS live stream information

Wowza Developer Dojo
1

Hi,

I am working on wowza live streaming analytics module for hls and rtmp streams.

i want to fetch following information from HLS and RTMP type live streaming…

-> viewer’s information

-> viewer-end user-agent

-> total data streamed to viewer

-> total play duration of media

-> flavours played during the stream.

i’ve fetched this data for RTMP live striming using following listener and classes:

->Listener: IMediaStream.addClientListener()

->Notifier: IMediaStreamActionNotify3

->Some wowza’s basic server API

i am not aware about the listener to get stream specific information in case of HLS(cupertino) live streaming.

i’ve achieved following in case of HLS(cupertino) live streaming:

-> total data transferred to viewer

-> user-agent

-> viewer’s information

and the information that is not achieved yet in HLS live streaming:

->total play duration of media

->flavors played during the stream

i’ve tried HTTPStreamerApplicationContextCupertinoStreamer.addVODActionListener() but is works with VOD type application only.

Can you please help me on this?

Thanks.

2

Hello

For the two elements you are having trouble obtaining for live streams, you can check out the following:

- Total Play Duration of the media

if you are looking on a per client basis, you can simply use time running from the session object as follows:

httpSession.getTimeRunningSeconds()

- Flavors played during the stream

You can depict which protocol by doing something like the following:

public void onHTTPSessionCreate(IHTTPStreamerSession httpSession){
  switch(httpSession.getSessionProtocol()){
	case IHTTPStreamerSession.SESSIONPROTOCOL_CUPERTINOSTREAMING:
		getLogger().info("Cupertino..");
	break;
	case IHTTPStreamerSession.SESSIONPROTOCOL_MPEGDASHSTREAMING:
		getLogger().info("Dash..");
	break;
	// ...
  }
}

Thanks,

Matt