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Playing Offline HLS Content with AES-128 encryption on iOS
Hi Team, Offline playback with AES-128 encryption I'm downloading HLS content that is AES-128 encrypted and using the AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate method shouldWaitForLoadingOfRequestedResource to parse the manifest to fetch the AES key URL. After fetching the key URL, I'll download and save the AES key locally. I will use the locally saved key to start the offline playback. Since AVContentKeySession has been there for quite some time, is it okay to use the resource loader delegate method to parse and download the AES key? Is there any chance that Apple will deprecate the downloading keys through the resource loader delegate? Thanks, Deepak.N
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Nov ’23
SCK/replayd behaviors and delays
We're troubleshooting SCK issues. They occur with a relatively small amount of sessions, but lack of context and/or ability to advise the customer on how they could make behavior more predictable and reliable is problematic. Generally, there is 2 distinct issues which may or may not have the same root cause: Failure to establish SCK session. Usually manifests within the app as SCShareableContent.getWithCompletionHandler call either never invoking the completion handler, or taking prohibitively long time (we usually give it 3-10 sec before giving up). In the system log it may look like this: (log omitted - suspecting it triggers the content filter) Note the 6 seconds delay to completion of fetchShareableContentWithOption (normally it's a 30-40ms operation). Sometime, we'd see the stream established, but some minutes (or even hours) into the recording we'd stop receiving frames. Both scenarios are likely to occur when the disk space is low, with reliable repro of the problem #2 at below 8gb of free space (in that case, we've seen replayd silently dropping the session, without ever notifying the client ... improving API could go a long way there). However, out of recent occurrences, while most have less than 100GB available, we've seen it on machines with as much as 500GB free. Unfortunately, it's almost never reproducible in dev environment, so we have to rely on diagnostics we're able to collect in the field -- which nothing obvious yet. I'd like to understand the root cause of both scenarios better and/or how what specific frameworks can cause these behaviors.
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Jan ’26
How to achieve license renewal case in safari based on ContentKeyDuration
Dear Apple Engineers, I have downloaded the FairPlay Streaming SDK 4.4 - In which i could able to make use of the fps_safari_hls_example.html file to make a successful playback of fairplay protected content in safari, by pointing our fairplay license server, .m3u8 file & certificate. Now that, i'm trying to achieve the renewal concept, so i tried to use the fps_safari_hls_key_renewal.html file also setting up the ContentKeyDuration to 20sec in FP license server backend. But client didn't make any subsequent FP license request around when nearing 20th sec or post 20th sec. I wonder if this use case be achieved in safari, the only extra functionality i could see in renewal html file is below piece of code await runAndWaitForLicenseRequest(session, keyURI, () => { session.update(stringToUInt8Array("renew")) }); Based on the above piece, i assume that we are making sure that client to aware the when to renew the license. But in my case, there were no FP request is made , in-fact, this piece of code got executed immediate after the 1st FP license request call & protected media continues to play despite setting the ContentKeyDuration to 20sec with LIMITED as contentkeyType . Could you please suggest on how to achieve the subsequent renewal request from client based on the ContentKeyDuration send in the CKC response using this sample renewal html file..? Is there any tewaks to be made in html file, kindly suggest.
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Mar ’24
LL-HLS magical number of 1002 for --part-target-duration-ms in --iso-fragmented
Hi Guys, I'm working on adding LL-HLS support to the Ant Media Server. I'm following up the documentation in hlstools for streaming and testing mediastreamsegmenter and tsrecompressor. What I wonder is that the sample uses 1002 ms for --part-target-duration-ms (-w in short form) as below mediastreamsegmenter -w 1002 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It works in this way. mediastreamsegmenter -w 1000 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It works in this way mediastreamsegmenter -w 1000 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T --iso-fragmented -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It crashes in this way when I add --iso-fragmented and mediastreamsegmenter gives the following error encountered failure write segment failed (-17543) - exiting It works if I use 1001 or 1003. I wondering if there is a reason for that or is it a bug?
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Jul ’24
Clarification of use of `AVAssetDownloadConfiguration` and `AVAssetDownloadTask` to persist MP3 Audio downloads/streams
Hello! I have been following the UsingAVFoundationToPlayAndPersistHTTPLiveStreams sample code in order to test persisting streams to disk. In addition to support for m3u8, I have noticed in testing that this also seems to work for MP3 Audio, simply by changing the plist entries to point to remote URLs with audio/mpeg content. Is this expected, or are there caveats that I should be aware of? Thanks you!
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Apr ’25
How to create equalizer for HLS along with AVPlayer?
I saw equalizer in apps like Musi and Spotify. I think (but not sure) they use HLS streaming. If so, how to implement such an equalizer for HLS? I searched and tried several approaches but so far none works, like: AVAudioEngine seems only support local file; Download .ts and merge into .mp3 to make it local can not guarantee real time effect; MTAudioProcessingTap needs the audio track. For remote .mp3 I can extract the audio track but not for HLS. Any suggestion?
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Jun ’24
AVPlayer "Server Not Properly Configured" Error in Production
Issue found in Native App or Hybrid App:Native OS Version:Any Device:Any 4.Description: We are using AVPlayer for streaming videos in our iOS application. The streaming works fine in lower sandbox environment, but we are encountering a "server not properly configured" error in the production environment. 5.Steps to Reproduce: Configure AVPlayer with a video URL from the production server. Attempt to play the video. 6.Expected Behavior: The video should stream successfully as it does in the sandbox environment. 7.Actual Behavior: AVPlayer fails to stream the video and reports a "server not properly configured" error.
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Jul ’24
Video url load through only Wi-Fi
We are working on iOT based app where we connect Wi-Fi with dash camera and access video files from dash cam we are loading video link in vlckit ios sdk its working in India in both Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data connected its not working in US in Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data is ON its working in US in Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data is OFF
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Jan ’22
How to detect HDCP support in Safari.
I am playing FairPlay + Multi-Key content (fMP4) in Safari browser. I want to implement the implementation to distinguish between SD and HD video quality, and play it in HD if HDCP is supported, and in SD if HDCP is not supported. I have already confirmed that HDCP support is the default, and that a black screen is output in non-HDCP environments. What I want is to improve the user experience by appropriately switching to SD/HD depending on HDCP support when playing DRM content. Question: Is there an API or function that can detect HDCP support in Safari through JavaScript or other methods? Or is there a way to indirectly guess it?
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Mar ’25
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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Jun ’24
[Fairplay Streaming] Time Manipulation Detection DRM License Servers
Our team conducted security testing and found one vulnerability with fairplay license acquisition. Our QA engineer manually changed the device's system date and time (setting it 4 days into the future) and was able to successfully obtain a license response and initiate playback on an iOS device. However, on an Android device, the license acquisition failed. Can you please tell us if Time Manipulation Detection is available in FairPlay SDK?
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Feb ’25
HLS h.264 avc1 no video on safari or iOS
Hi. I have unresolved problem with playback HLS. Everything double checked according to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streaming/http_live_streaming_hls_authoring_specification_for_apple_devices?language=objc Maybe i missed something? Can any one help? Link to one of my HLS - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPwYg8QkbUyLYFNwAG6jU4X_jbS9fp0j/view?usp=sharing
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Dec ’22
Why do I get .ts and .aac requests to the server when playing a downloaded HLS?
I am developing an app to stream and download DRM protected HLS videos based on the official “FairPlay Streaming Server SDK”. When I play the downloaded video, it asks the server for .ts or .aac, even though I have passed the path of the downloaded video to AVURLAsset. As a result, playback fails when the device is offline, such as in airplane mode. This behavior depends on the playback time of the video and occurs when trying to download and play a video with a playback time of 19 hours or more. It did not occur for videos with a playback time of 18 hours. The environment we checked is iOS 18.3. The solution at this time is to limit the video playback time to 18 hours, but if possible, we would like to allow download playback of videos longer than 19 hours. Does anyone have any information or know of a solution to this problem, such as if you have experienced this type of event, or if you know that content longer than 19 hours cannot be played offline? // load let path = ".../xxx.movpkg" // Path of the downloaded file videoAsset = AVURLAsset(url: path) playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: videoAsset!) player.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem) // isPlayableOffline print("videoAsset.assetCache.isPlayableOffline = \(videoAsset.assetCache.isPlayableOffline)") // true
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Feb ’25
iOS15 + Fairplay + DRM + AppleTV
Hi, I have a video streaming application and a part of code which use FairPlay + DRM. Im trying stream DRN content on appletv and It works well on iOS 13, but on iOS 15 i see nothing and catch internal player error: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11870 "Operation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=An unknown error has occurred (808), NSLocalizedDescription=Operation failed, NSUnderlyingError=0x283902700 {Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=808 "(null)"}}
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Mar ’22
Playing Offline HLS Content with AES-128 encryption on iOS
Hi Team, Offline playback with AES-128 encryption I'm downloading HLS content that is AES-128 encrypted and using the AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate method shouldWaitForLoadingOfRequestedResource to parse the manifest to fetch the AES key URL. After fetching the key URL, I'll download and save the AES key locally. I will use the locally saved key to start the offline playback. Since AVContentKeySession has been there for quite some time, is it okay to use the resource loader delegate method to parse and download the AES key? Is there any chance that Apple will deprecate the downloading keys through the resource loader delegate? Thanks, Deepak.N
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Nov ’23
SCK/replayd behaviors and delays
We're troubleshooting SCK issues. They occur with a relatively small amount of sessions, but lack of context and/or ability to advise the customer on how they could make behavior more predictable and reliable is problematic. Generally, there is 2 distinct issues which may or may not have the same root cause: Failure to establish SCK session. Usually manifests within the app as SCShareableContent.getWithCompletionHandler call either never invoking the completion handler, or taking prohibitively long time (we usually give it 3-10 sec before giving up). In the system log it may look like this: (log omitted - suspecting it triggers the content filter) Note the 6 seconds delay to completion of fetchShareableContentWithOption (normally it's a 30-40ms operation). Sometime, we'd see the stream established, but some minutes (or even hours) into the recording we'd stop receiving frames. Both scenarios are likely to occur when the disk space is low, with reliable repro of the problem #2 at below 8gb of free space (in that case, we've seen replayd silently dropping the session, without ever notifying the client ... improving API could go a long way there). However, out of recent occurrences, while most have less than 100GB available, we've seen it on machines with as much as 500GB free. Unfortunately, it's almost never reproducible in dev environment, so we have to rely on diagnostics we're able to collect in the field -- which nothing obvious yet. I'd like to understand the root cause of both scenarios better and/or how what specific frameworks can cause these behaviors.
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Jan ’26
How to achieve license renewal case in safari based on ContentKeyDuration
Dear Apple Engineers, I have downloaded the FairPlay Streaming SDK 4.4 - In which i could able to make use of the fps_safari_hls_example.html file to make a successful playback of fairplay protected content in safari, by pointing our fairplay license server, .m3u8 file &amp; certificate. Now that, i'm trying to achieve the renewal concept, so i tried to use the fps_safari_hls_key_renewal.html file also setting up the ContentKeyDuration to 20sec in FP license server backend. But client didn't make any subsequent FP license request around when nearing 20th sec or post 20th sec. I wonder if this use case be achieved in safari, the only extra functionality i could see in renewal html file is below piece of code await runAndWaitForLicenseRequest(session, keyURI, () =&gt; { session.update(stringToUInt8Array("renew")) }); Based on the above piece, i assume that we are making sure that client to aware the when to renew the license. But in my case, there were no FP request is made , in-fact, this piece of code got executed immediate after the 1st FP license request call &amp; protected media continues to play despite setting the ContentKeyDuration to 20sec with LIMITED as contentkeyType . Could you please suggest on how to achieve the subsequent renewal request from client based on the ContentKeyDuration send in the CKC response using this sample renewal html file..? Is there any tewaks to be made in html file, kindly suggest.
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Mar ’24
LL-HLS magical number of 1002 for --part-target-duration-ms in --iso-fragmented
Hi Guys, I'm working on adding LL-HLS support to the Ant Media Server. I'm following up the documentation in hlstools for streaming and testing mediastreamsegmenter and tsrecompressor. What I wonder is that the sample uses 1002 ms for --part-target-duration-ms (-w in short form) as below mediastreamsegmenter -w 1002 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It works in this way. mediastreamsegmenter -w 1000 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It works in this way mediastreamsegmenter -w 1000 -t 4 224.0.0.50:9123 -s 16 -D -T --iso-fragmented -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/2M/` It crashes in this way when I add --iso-fragmented and mediastreamsegmenter gives the following error encountered failure write segment failed (-17543) - exiting It works if I use 1001 or 1003. I wondering if there is a reason for that or is it a bug?
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Jul ’24
Clarification of use of `AVAssetDownloadConfiguration` and `AVAssetDownloadTask` to persist MP3 Audio downloads/streams
Hello! I have been following the UsingAVFoundationToPlayAndPersistHTTPLiveStreams sample code in order to test persisting streams to disk. In addition to support for m3u8, I have noticed in testing that this also seems to work for MP3 Audio, simply by changing the plist entries to point to remote URLs with audio/mpeg content. Is this expected, or are there caveats that I should be aware of? Thanks you!
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Apr ’25
How to create equalizer for HLS along with AVPlayer?
I saw equalizer in apps like Musi and Spotify. I think (but not sure) they use HLS streaming. If so, how to implement such an equalizer for HLS? I searched and tried several approaches but so far none works, like: AVAudioEngine seems only support local file; Download .ts and merge into .mp3 to make it local can not guarantee real time effect; MTAudioProcessingTap needs the audio track. For remote .mp3 I can extract the audio track but not for HLS. Any suggestion?
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Jun ’24
AVPlayer "Server Not Properly Configured" Error in Production
Issue found in Native App or Hybrid App:Native OS Version:Any Device:Any 4.Description: We are using AVPlayer for streaming videos in our iOS application. The streaming works fine in lower sandbox environment, but we are encountering a "server not properly configured" error in the production environment. 5.Steps to Reproduce: Configure AVPlayer with a video URL from the production server. Attempt to play the video. 6.Expected Behavior: The video should stream successfully as it does in the sandbox environment. 7.Actual Behavior: AVPlayer fails to stream the video and reports a "server not properly configured" error.
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Jul ’24
Video url load through only Wi-Fi
We are working on iOT based app where we connect Wi-Fi with dash camera and access video files from dash cam we are loading video link in vlckit ios sdk its working in India in both Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data connected its not working in US in Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data is ON its working in US in Wi-Fi connected to dash cam and mobile data is OFF
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Jan ’22
How to detect HDCP support in Safari.
I am playing FairPlay + Multi-Key content (fMP4) in Safari browser. I want to implement the implementation to distinguish between SD and HD video quality, and play it in HD if HDCP is supported, and in SD if HDCP is not supported. I have already confirmed that HDCP support is the default, and that a black screen is output in non-HDCP environments. What I want is to improve the user experience by appropriately switching to SD/HD depending on HDCP support when playing DRM content. Question: Is there an API or function that can detect HDCP support in Safari through JavaScript or other methods? Or is there a way to indirectly guess it?
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Mar ’25
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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Jun ’24
[Fairplay Streaming] Time Manipulation Detection DRM License Servers
Our team conducted security testing and found one vulnerability with fairplay license acquisition. Our QA engineer manually changed the device's system date and time (setting it 4 days into the future) and was able to successfully obtain a license response and initiate playback on an iOS device. However, on an Android device, the license acquisition failed. Can you please tell us if Time Manipulation Detection is available in FairPlay SDK?
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Feb ’25
HLS h.264 avc1 no video on safari or iOS
Hi. I have unresolved problem with playback HLS. Everything double checked according to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streaming/http_live_streaming_hls_authoring_specification_for_apple_devices?language=objc Maybe i missed something? Can any one help? Link to one of my HLS - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPwYg8QkbUyLYFNwAG6jU4X_jbS9fp0j/view?usp=sharing
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Dec ’22
Why do I get .ts and .aac requests to the server when playing a downloaded HLS?
I am developing an app to stream and download DRM protected HLS videos based on the official “FairPlay Streaming Server SDK”. When I play the downloaded video, it asks the server for .ts or .aac, even though I have passed the path of the downloaded video to AVURLAsset. As a result, playback fails when the device is offline, such as in airplane mode. This behavior depends on the playback time of the video and occurs when trying to download and play a video with a playback time of 19 hours or more. It did not occur for videos with a playback time of 18 hours. The environment we checked is iOS 18.3. The solution at this time is to limit the video playback time to 18 hours, but if possible, we would like to allow download playback of videos longer than 19 hours. Does anyone have any information or know of a solution to this problem, such as if you have experienced this type of event, or if you know that content longer than 19 hours cannot be played offline? // load let path = ".../xxx.movpkg" // Path of the downloaded file videoAsset = AVURLAsset(url: path) playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: videoAsset!) player.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem) // isPlayableOffline print("videoAsset.assetCache.isPlayableOffline = \(videoAsset.assetCache.isPlayableOffline)") // true
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Feb ’25
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When WKWebView uses getUserMedia, the following authorization prompt will pop up every time you exit the app (as shown below). How to solve this problem? thank you.(https://obs-ogt.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com:443/tinymce/1672364537956-%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20221230094106.png)
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Dec ’22
iOS15 + Fairplay + DRM + AppleTV
Hi, I have a video streaming application and a part of code which use FairPlay + DRM. Im trying stream DRN content on appletv and It works well on iOS 13, but on iOS 15 i see nothing and catch internal player error: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11870 "Operation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=An unknown error has occurred (808), NSLocalizedDescription=Operation failed, NSUnderlyingError=0x283902700 {Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=808 "(null)"}}
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Mar ’22