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Error 15517 when playing HLS
Playing fMP4 HLS stream on VisionOS beta. This is the stream, HEVC main 10 and EAC3 6 channel: #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=6760793,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=6760793,VIDEO-RANGE=PQ,CODECS="hvc1.2.4.L150.B0,mp4a.a6",RESOLUTION=3840x2160,FRAME-RATE=23.976,SUBTITLES="subs" This is what AVPlayer says: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11848 "Cannot Open" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The media cannot be used on this device., NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot Open, NSUnderlyingError=0x3009e37b0 {Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-15517 "(null)"}} I can't find any documentation for the underlying error 15517. Is it because "mp4a.a6" is declared in the codec list and not "ec-3"? hlsreport has these MUST FIX issues: 1. Measured peak bitrate compared to multivariant playlist declared value exceeds error tolerance Multivariant Playlist Stream Definition for All Variants 2. Stereo audio in AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1, or HE-AAC v2 format MUST be provided Multivariant Playlist 3. If Dolby Digital Plus is provided then Dolby Digital MUST be provided also Multivariant Playlist 4. I-frame playlists ( EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF ) MUST be provided to support scrubbing and scanning UI Multivariant Playlist 5. The server MUST deliver playlists using gzip content-encoding All Variants All Renditions Multivariant Playlist 6. You MUST provide multiple bit rates of video Multivariant Playlist 7. Playlist codec type doesn't match content codec type All Variants 8. (Segment) The operation couldn’t be completed. (HTTPPumpErrorDomain error -16845 - HTTP 400: (unhandled)) (list of subtitle renditions) 9. (Segment) HTTP 400 - HTTP/2.0 400 Bad Request (list of subtitle renditions) 10. Multichannel audio MUST be separate audio stream All Variants 11. If EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS is not in the multivariant playlist, then you MUST use the EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS tag in all video media playlists All Variants 12. The CODECS attribute MUST include every media format present All Variants, does not declare EC-3
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Low Latency streaming via CDN
Hello gents, we have a problem serving LL HLS streams via CDN. Im kind of desperate what is wrong as stream plays correctly without CDN. The error thrown is: .invalidStream: Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-15416 "Blocking Playlist Reload failed" (See -[AVPlayerItem errorLog] for 6 events) UserInfo={NSDescription=Blocking Playlist Reload failed, NSDebugDescription=See -[AVPlayerItem errorLog] for 6 events} errorLog: <AVPlayerItemErrorLog: 0x30174d5a0> when i check in manifest we have this enabled: #EXT-X-SERVER-CONTROL:CAN-BLOCK-RELOAD=YES,HOLD-BACK=6.000,PART-HOLD-BACK=4.000 what i do not understand is what this feature does or if CDN can somehow impact this feature. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Stopped playing hls+fairplay, but was played yesterday
device iPhone 13 Pro max AVPlayer recieve error #Version: 1.0 #Software: AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.21E236 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 17_4_1 like Mac OS X; en_us) #Date: 2024/06/11 14:06:18.018 CoreMediaErrorDomain error -42716 On system log we see propertyKey:IsLeaseExpired стандартное 14:38:28.008912+0300 mediaplaybackd <<<< FigCPECryptorPKD >>>> FigPKDCPECryptorSetKeyRequestResponse: 0xcc4160140 612C5D12-F92F-4897-B55D-854F842B41B4 keyResponseOptions:[] keyRequestResponse:0xcc5759d70 err:-42716 стандартное 14:38:28.009052+0300 mediaplaybackd keyboss ckb_transitionRequestToTerminalState: 0xcc5440380 <private> reqFin err <private> (-42716) dokeyCallbacksExist 0 стандартное 14:38:28.009138+0300 mediaplaybackd keyboss ckb_customURLReadCallback: 0xcc5440380 <private> customURLReqID 8 isComplete 1 err 0 error <private> (0) dokeyCallbacksExist 0 стандартное 14:38:28.009169+0300 mediaplaybackd <<<< FigPKDKeyManager >>>> keyManager_copyPropertyForEntryInternal: 0xcc546b280 6143FF61-5E6F-4506-A17D-4DB6B6BA0C5B propertyKey:IsLeaseExpired propertyValue: 0x16e5b17a0 стандартное 14:38:28.009196+0300 mediaplaybackd <<<< FigPKDKeyManager >>>> PKDKeyManagerSetKeyRequestError: keyManager:0xcc546b280 keyID:6143FF61-5E6F-4506-A17D-4DB6B6BA0C5B error:<private> (-19160) err:0 on server leaseDuration always is 0 But we have another device iPhone 15 Pro max, iOS 17.5.1 and he played correctly with the same crypt key from server
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Fairplay on M2/M3 MacBook's not honouring lease duration in license
Doing some testing around player behaviour when a license expires in Safari on MacOS. I had the following outcomes: On Safari 17.4.1 on an intel based Mac running Ventura, playback stopped when the license expired. On Safari 17.4.1 on an M3 running Sonoma, playback stalled briefly, and then continued to play unlimited. On Safari 16.5.2 on an M2 running Ventura, playback stalled briefly, and then continued to play unlimited. When playback stalled briefly, was at the time the license expired. I parsed the license and everything is set correctly for a lease license type: { "version" : 1, "payloadLength" : 1072, "iv" : "0H9NCXLQeh1ziYpmJXsnwQ==", "assetId" : "䙁㉌䉃\u0000\u0000\u0000", "hdcp" : "TYPE_0_REQUIRED", "contentKeyDuration" : { "leaseDurationSeconds" : 300, "rentalDurationSeconds" : 0, "persistenceAllowed" : false }, "keyType" : "Lease" } I cannot find any information relating to this behaviour. Per the docs for FPS, a lease license type: If the content key is not renewed, the Apple device stops the playback when the lease expires. Which is what is observed on the intel based macbook.
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May ’24
AVPlayer and TLS 1.3 compliance for low latency HLS live stream
Hi guys, I'm investigating failure to play low latency Live HLS stream and I'm getting following error: (String) “<AVPlayerItemErrorLog: 0x30367da10>\n#Version: 1.0\n#Software: AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.21L227 (Apple TV; U; CPU OS 17_4 like Mac OS X; en_us)\n#Date: 2024/05/17 13:11:46.046\n#Fields: date time uri cs-guid s-ip status domain comment cs-iftype\n2024/05/17 13:11:16.016 https://s2-h21-nlivell01.cdn.xxxxxx.***/..../xxxx.m3u8 -15410 \“CoreMediaErrorDomain\” \“Low Latency: Server must support http2 ECN and SACK\” -\n2024/05/17 13:11:17.017 -15410 \“CoreMediaErrorDomain\” \“Invalid server blocking reload behavior for low latency\” -\n2024/05/17 13:11:17.017 The stream works when loading from dev server with TLS 1.3, but fails on CDN servers with TLS 1.2. Regular Live streams and VOD streams work normally on those CDN servers. I tried to configure TLSv1.2 in Info.plist, but that didn't help. When running nscurl --ats-diagnostics --verbose it is passing for the server with TLS 1.3, but failing for CDN servers with TLS 1.2 due to error Code=-1005 "The network connection was lost." Is TLS 1.3 required or just recommended? Refering to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http-live-streaming/enabling-low-latency-http-live-streaming-hls and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis Is it possible to configure AVPlayer to skip ECN and SACK validation? Thanks.
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May ’24
AVPlayer CoreMediaErrorDomain -12642
Hi everyone, I am having a problem on AVPlayer when I try to play some videos. The video starts for a few seconds, but immediately after I see a black screen and in the console there is the following error: <__NSArrayM 0x14dbf9f30>( { StreamPlaylistError = "-12314"; comment = "have audio audio-aacl-54 in STREAMINF without EXT-X-MEDIA audio group"; date = "2024-05-13 20:46:19 +0000"; domain = CoreMediaErrorDomain; status = "-12642"; uri = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/master.m3u8"; }, { "c-conn-type" = 1; "c-severity" = 2; comment = "Playlist parse error"; "cs-guid" = "871C1871-D566-4A3A-8465-2C58FDC18A19"; date = "2024-05-13 20:46:19 +0000"; domain = CoreMediaErrorDomain; status = "-12642"; uri = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/master.m3u8"; } )
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May ’24
Airplay not working with Encrypted HLS m3u8 url using avplayer
Hi, I am using avplayer, want to stream airplay with my encrypted hls m3u8 url. I am sharing my code snippet. ` let contentUrl = URL(string: String(format:videoUrl)) let headers = ["token": token] let asset: AVURLAsset = AVURLAsset(url: contentUrl!, options["AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey": headers]) let playerItem: AVPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset) self.avPlayer?.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem) self.avPlayer?.play()` Airplay is not working on my tv when i start stream. My encrypted url won't work. Is there any way to stream airplay with encrypted url. Stuck here........
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May ’24
How to play Encrypted HLS m3u8 url via Airplay using avplayer.
I have an avplayer with an encrypted m3u8 url and this is my code snippet let contentUrl = URL(string: String(format:videoUrl)) let headers = ["token": token] let asset: AVURLAsset = AVURLAsset(url: contentUrl!, options: ["AVURLAssetHTTPHeaderFieldsKey": headers]) let playerItem: AVPlayerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset) self.avPlayer?.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem) self.avPlayer?.play() When i try to stream Airplay the content not displaying. Airplay is not working with an encrypted url. How can i stream? Is there any way.
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May ’24
Does HLS support MVHEVC HDR10 ?
I am setting up a HLS server for MVHEVC files... just find that if tag mp4 files using Asset Writer with let colorPropertySettings = [ AVVideoColorPrimariesKey: AVVideoColorPrimaries_ITU_R_709_2, AVVideoYCbCrMatrixKey: AVVideoTransferFunction_ITU_R_709_2, AVVideoTransferFunctionKey: AVVideoYCbCrMatrix_ITU_R_709_2 ] the HLS playback well on Safari. but if tag mp4 files using using Asset Writer with let colorPropertySettings = [ AVVideoColorPrimariesKey: AVVideoColorPrimaries_ITU_R_2020, AVVideoYCbCrMatrixKey: AVVideoYCbCrMatrix_ITU_R_2020, AVVideoTransferFunctionKey: AVVideoTransferFunction_SMPTE_ST_2084_PQ ] the HLS can not play on Safari. looks like HLS does NOT support MVHEVC HDR10. OR have I lost any setting for MVHEVC HDR10? thanks.
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May ’24
RealityView with FairPlay
I'm trying to implement the playback of an HLS content with FairPlay, and I want to insert it into a RealityView using a VideoMaterial of a sphere. When I use unencrypted HLS content everything works correctly, but when I use FairPlay it doesn't. To initialize FairPlay I am using the following in the view: let contentKeyDelegate = ContentKeySessionDelegate(licenseURL: licenseURL, certificateURL: certificateURL) // Create the Content Key Session using the FairPlay Streaming key system. let contentKeySession = AVContentKeySession(keySystem: .fairPlayStreaming) contentKeySession.setDelegate(contentKeyDelegate, queue: DispatchQueue.main) contentKeySession.addContentKeyRecipient(asset) Has anyone else encountered this problem? Note: I'm testing in Vision Pro directly because the simulator hasn't support for FairPlay.
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Apr ’24
Issue with AssetDownloadTask for HLS stream
In my app I play HLS streams via AVPlayer. It works well! However, when I try to download those same HLS urls via MakeAssetDownloadTask I regularly come across the error: Download error for identifier 21222: Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12938 "HTTP 404: File Not Found" UserInfo={NSDescription=HTTP 404: File Not Found, _NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey=( "BackgroundAVAssetDownloadTask <CE9B10ED-E749-49FF-9942-3F8728210B20>.<1>" ), _NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey=BackgroundAVAssetDownloadTask <CE9B10ED-E749-49FF-9942-3F8728210B20>.<1>} I have a feeling that the AVPlayer has a way to resolve this that the MakeAssetDownloadTask lacks. I am wondering if any of you have come across this or have insight. Thank you! BTW this is using Xcode Version 15.3 (15E204a) and developing for visionOS 1.0.1
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Apr ’24
EXT-X-DEFINE: how to implement QUERYPARAM on iOS 16.5+
I have a stream.m3u8 file with the following contents: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:11 #EXT-X-DEFINE:QUERYPARAM="token" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=400000,RESOLUTION=640x360 360.m3u8{$token} #EXT-X-DEFINE:QUERYPARAM="token" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1000000,RESOLUTION=960x540 540.m3u8{$token} #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2000000,RESOLUTION=1280x720 #EXT-X-DEFINE:QUERYPARAM="token" 720.m3u8{$token} #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=8000000,RESOLUTION=1920x1080 #EXT-X-DEFINE:QUERYPARAM="token" 1080.m3u8{$token} #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=16000000,RESOLUTION=3840x2160 #EXT-X-DEFINE:QUERYPARAM="token" 2160.m3u8{$token} The requesting URL is https://example.com/stream.m3u8!?token= and I am using an iPhone 15 running iOS 17.1. The QUERYPARAM substitution as described here is not working, because the requested URL for 540.m3u8 does not have a token appended it; I know this because I checked my apache error log. The file is hosted on a Debian 11 server. Have I implemented this correctly, and do I have the correct tech stack? Furthermore, what debugging tools should I be running to investigate further?
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Apr ’24
HLS+FairPlay stream playback sometimes fails with Safari on macOS when variants are not ordered by increasing bitrate
While setting up our premium video-on-demand workflow in AWS, using AWS MediaConvert and MediaPackager and licence delivery from drmToday we encountered an issue with HLS+FairPlay playback (only) in Safari on macOS. The issue is that sometimes (more than 50% on the same video) the videoplayer initialization fails (with simple event of type=”error” in onerror callback). We are using Shaka player in our web application, so we first assumed that this (random) issue could be due to Shaka. However, we also tested with direct playback via the player and we observed the same issue, with same frequency. Since we have some content for which this problem does not occur and other content when the problem occurs very frequently, we tried to understand what could explain this difference. We noticed that for assets where the problem never occurs the order of the video submanifest was increasing, whereas for assets where the problem occurs frequently the order is decreasing. To isolate the issue we created a standalone page for a 2-minute asset and we are able to demonstrate that on this asset, when the bitrates are in decreasing order the playback with Safari on macOS fails more than 50% of the time. Test page using tag: KO: https://ntg-test-public-scr.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws-video.html OK: https://ntg-test-public-scr.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws-video.html?ok=1 Test page using Shaka: KO: https://ntg-test-public-scr.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws-shaka.html OK: https://ntg-test-public-scr.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws-shaka.html?ok=1 Notes: the issue is only reproducible with Safari on macOS (not with Safari on iOS) same HLS content + FairPlay plays OK 100% on tvOS the issue is only reproducible for HLS content with FairPlay (OK if no DRM)
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Apr ’24
tsrecompressor (LL-HLS) input file option & 4K source
Now I'm preparing LL-HLS demonstration by using HLS tools. Generated pattern and screen capture are okay. But input file option does not work. Please check whether it's possible to use explicit input file as source. In case of screen recording, the max resolution of multi variant manifest is FHD even though the display resolution is 3840x2160. Please check whether it's possible to set 4K UHD resolution.
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Apr ’24
Implementing FairPlayStreaming and getting error code -42671
Hi guys, I'm implementing FairPlay support for a video streaming application. I've managed to get as far as generating the SPC and acquiring a license from the license server. However when it comes to parsing the license (CKC) returned from the server, the FPS module returns error code -42671. Has anyone else faced this before and / or knows what the fix is? I thought passing it the license should be enough unless additional data is required?
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Mar ’24
How to encode MV-HEVC spatial videos using HLS tool correctly?
Hi all, I am a graduate student who is looking into making MV-HEVC videos streamable. May I ask that is it possible to encode mv-hevc videos with the HLS (Http Live Streaming) protocol? I've been trying to use the HLS tool by Apple to encode a spatial video recored by VP. mediafilesegmenter -iso-fragmented -t 4 -f sp_video-1-vp spatial-video-by-vp.MOV But the output HLS playlist file doesn't look like the format that Apple proposes in the WWDC video. For example, the attribute EXT-X-VERSION is 7 instead of 12, and no attr REQ-VIDEO-LAYOUT=CH-STEREO which should be the key indicator of the spatial video type. From what the WWDC video showcased, I assume Apple's HLS tool supports it. Maybe my usage is not correct. Just curious what you guys think about it, thank you!
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