iOS streaming - without sessionid in the playlist files

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hi,

can you please tell me if it is possible in anyway to remove sessionID from M3U8 playlists for iOS streaming?

Thanks!

2

There is no feature built-in to Wowza to do that. It is possible outside of Wowza or by some custom extension in Wowza.

Wowza as HLS origin may be a future feature of Wowza 3.

Richard

3

Hi,

thanks fo the reply. In which module is the sessionID add in Wowza? Perhaps it can be modified,etc.

When you say that it’s possible outside od wowza, what do you exactly mean?

Thanks!

4

It’s not supported in Wowza. I’m not sure how you would go about it. It is something you will have to work out, or wait until it is supported.

Richard

5

Take a look at this article:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-a-wowza-server-as-an-http-caching-origin

Richard

6

Did you add it to the right container. /LiveStreamPacketizer /Properties container is toward the bottom of the file, it is not /Streams /LiveStreamPacketizers

And there are the other properties.

Re-start Wowza to be sure the app is re-loaded.

Richard

7

Is there any change in the last version of Wowza (3.5) regarding HLS sessionid?

Our CDN does not support Wowza sessionid and we have to use FMS instead if we cannot get rid of sessionid in Wowza.

8

When I set property httpRandomizeMediaName the playlist.m3u8 and manifest.f4m still include sessionid in the path:

playlist.m3u8

#EXTM3U

#EXT-X-VERSION:3

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2159322,CODECS=“avc1.77.30, mp4a.40.2”,RESOLUTION=785x576chunklist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=632227639

manifest.f4m

ltv1-stream1.stream

785

576

video/mp4

live

streaming

AgAKb2…{{shortened}}

I can access the HLS stream if i refer directly to chunklist.m3u8 without sessionid.

Is this the correct way?

How to get something similar with HDS?

Where all this is documented?