Hello All, I am looking for assistance with our FairPlay Streaming (FPS) certificates. We are in the process of migrating to a new video streaming vendor and need to create a new FPS certificate using SDK 4. However, we have reached the limit of allowed FPS certificates in our account and cannot create a new one. Issue Details: • We currently have two FPS certificates active in our developer account. • One of these was created using SDK 5, but our new vendor (Mux) requires an FPS certificate based on SDK 4. • Since Apple does not allow deleting FPS certificates from the developer portal, we are unable to create a new SDK 4 certificate. • We kindly request Apple to revoke one of our existing FPS certificates to allow us to generate a new SDK 4 certificate. Request: We would greatly appreciate it if you could assist us on how to delete one of our existing FPS certificates so that we can proceed with creating a new SDK 4 certificate for our vendor integration. Thank you for your support.

Hello, I am developing a video streaming service that uses FairPlay. Since around February 20th, we have started receiving reports of CoreMediaErrorDomain -42709 errors. Unfortunately, there is no documentation from Apple that explains what this error means, so we are not sure how to address or fix the issue. Most of the users who reported this error are using iOS 18.2.1 and iOS 18.3.1. Could you please advise on what we should check or how we might resolve this error?

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I have an iOS app that downloads HLS files, which are protected by FairPlay. These files are stored locally, and their locations are managed using Core Data. When playing these tracks, I use AVURLAsset to access the stored file paths. Recently, a client upgraded to a new iPhone and used Quick Start to transfer data from his old device. While all other app data was successfully transferred, including Core Data records and UserDefaults, the actual HLS files were missing. As a result, the app retained metadata about the downloaded content, but the files themselves were gone, causing playback failures. Does Quick Start exclude certain types of locally stored files, especially DRM-protected HLS downloads, or is the issue related to how FairPlay-protected content is handled during the transfer of locally stored files?

Hello, hope everybody is doing well. I have some reels (of aspect ratio 9X16) content, which I want to playback on iOS phones. My question is does AV player support out of box playback of encrypted Mp4. Please note, this is not HLS fMp4, rather unfragmented Mp4 content. If it is supported, what algorithm of encryption shall be used? Please let me know.

I’m building a professional camera app where users can customize the video recording format and color grading. In the func captureOutput(_ output: AVCaptureOutput, didOutput sampleBuffer: CMSampleBuffer, from connection: AVCaptureConnection) method, I handle video frames and use Metal for real-time color grading. This works well when device.activeColorSpace is sRGB or P3, and the results are great. However, when the color space is HLG_BT2020 or appleLog, the MTKTextureLoader.newTexture(cgImage: cgImage, options: options) method throws an error. After researching, I found that the video frame in these color spaces has a bit-per-channel (bpc) greater than 8 after being converted to CGImage, causing the texture creation to fail. I tried converting the CGImage to a lower bpc to successfully create the texture, but the final output image is garbled and not as expected. Is there a solution to this issue?

Is there a way to install HLS tools on ARM Linux? The only one I can find is for x86 Linux. I'm working on a project on a Raspberry Pi. I'd like to install the tool to generate my hls files, but the alternatives are more complicated to use. Is there a way to run them like Mac OS does with Rosseta?

I did watch WWDC 2019 Session 716 and understand that an active audio session is key to unlocking low‑level networking on watchOS. I’m configuring my audio session and engine as follows: private func configureAudioSession(completion: @escaping (Bool) -> Void) { let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance() do { try audioSession.setCategory(.playAndRecord, mode: .voiceChat, options: []) try audioSession.setActive(true, options: .notifyOthersOnDeactivation) // Retrieve sample rate and configure the audio format. let sampleRate = audioSession.sampleRate print("Active hardware sample rate: \(sampleRate)") audioFormat = AVAudioFormat(standardFormatWithSampleRate: sampleRate, channels: 1) // Configure the audio engine. audioInputNode = audioEngine.inputNode audioEngine.attach(audioPlayerNode) audioEngine.connect(audioPlayerNode, to: audioEngine.mainMixerNode, format: audioFormat) try audioEngine.start() completion(true) } catch { print("Error configuring audio session: \(error.localizedDescription)") completion(false) } } private func setupUDPConnection() { let parameters = NWParameters.udp parameters.includePeerToPeer = true connection = NWConnection(host: "***.***.xxxxx.***", port: 0000, using: parameters) setupNWConnectionHandlers() } private func setupTCPConnection() { let parameters = NWParameters.tcp connection = NWConnection(host: "***.***.xxxxx.***", port: 0000, using: parameters) setupNWConnectionHandlers() } private func setupWebSocketConnection() { guard let url = URL(string: "ws://***.***.xxxxx.***:0000") else { print("Invalid WebSocket URL") return } let session = URLSession(configuration: .default) webSocketTask = session.webSocketTask(with: url) webSocketTask?.resume() print("WebSocket connection initiated") sendAudioToServer() receiveDataFromServer() sendWebSocketPing(after: 0.6) } private func setupNWConnectionHandlers() { connection?.stateUpdateHandler = { [weak self] state in DispatchQueue.main.async { switch state { case .ready: print("Connected (NWConnection)") self?.isConnected = true self?.failToConnect = false self?.receiveDataFromServer() self?.sendAudioToServer() case .waiting(let error), .failed(let error): print("Connection error: \(error.localizedDescription)") DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 2) { self?.setupNetwork() } case .cancelled: print("NWConnection cancelled") self?.isConnected = false default: break } } } connection?.start(queue: .main) } Duplex in this context refers to two-way audio transmission simultaneously recording and sending audio while also receiving and playing back incoming audio, similar to a VoIP/SIP call. The setup works fine on the simulator, which suggests that the core logic is correct. However, since the simulator doesn’t fully replicate WatchOS hardware behavior especially for audio sessions and networking issues might arise when running on a real device. The problem likely lies in either the Watch’s actual hardware limitations, permission constraints, or specific audio session configurations. I am reaching out to seek further assistance regarding the challenges I've been experiencing with establishing a UDP, TCP & web socket connection on watchOS using NWConnection for duplex audio streaming. Despite implementing the recommendations provided earlier, I am still encountering difficulties From what I can see, your implementation is focused on streaming audio playback with the server. In my case, I'm looking for a slightly different approach: I want to capture audio and send buffers of a specific size to the server while playing audio simultaneously, essentially achieving full duplex streaming similar to a VOIP call. Additionally, I’d like to ensure that if no external audio route is connected, the Apple Watch speaker is used by default. Any thoughts or insights on adapting this setup for those requirements would be very welcome.

We've successfully implemented an AVAssetWriter to produce HLS streams (all code is Objective-C++ for interop with existing codebase) but are struggling to extend the operations to use tagged buffers. We're starting to wonder if the tagged buffers required for an MV-HEVC signal are fully supported when producing HLS segments in a live-stream setting. We generate a live stream of data using something like: UTType *t = [UTType typeWithIdentifier:AVFileTypeMPEG4]; m_writter = [[AVAssetWriter alloc] initWithContentType:t]; // - videoHint describes HEVC and width/height // - m_videoConfig includes compression settings and, when using MV-HEVC, // the correct keys are added (i.e. kVTCompressionPropertyKey_MVHEVCVideoLayerIDs) // The app was throwing an exception without these which was // useful to know when we got the configuration right. m_video = [[AVAssetWriterInput alloc] initWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo outputSettings:m_videoConfig sourceFormatHint:videoHint]; For either path we're producing CVPixelBufferRefs that contain the raw pixel information (i.e. 32BGRA) so we use an adapter to make that as simple as possible. If we use a single view and a AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor things work out very well. We produce segments and the delegate is called. However, if we use the AVAssetWriterInputTaggedPixelBufferGroupAdaptor as exampled in the SideBySideToMVHEVC demo project, things go poorly. We create the tagged buffers with something like: CMTagCollectionRef collections[2]; CMTag leftTags[] = { CMTagMakeWithSInt64Value( kCMTagCategory_VideoLayerID, (int64_t)0), CMTagMakeWithSInt64Value( kCMTagCategory_StereoView, kCMStereoView_LeftEye) }; CMTagCollectionCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, leftTags, 2, &(collections[0]) ); CMTag rightTags[] = { CMTagMakeWithSInt64Value( kCMTagCategory_VideoLayerID, (int64_t)1), CMTagMakeWithSInt64Value( kCMTagCategory_StereoView, kCMStereoView_RightEye) }; CMTagCollectionCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, rightTags, 2, &(collections[1]) ); CFArrayRef tagCollections = CFArrayCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, (const void **)collections, 2, &kCFTypeArrayCallBacks ); CVPixelBufferRef buffers[] = {*b, *alt}; CFArrayRef b = CFArrayCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, (const void **)buffers, 2, &kCFTypeArrayCallBacks ); CMTaggedBufferGroupRef bufferGroup; OSStatus res = CMTaggedBufferGroupCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault, tagCollections, b, &bufferGroup ); Perhaps there's something about this OBJC code that I've buggered up? Hopefully! Anyways, when I submit this tagged bugger group to the adaptor: if (![mvVideoAdapter appendTaggedPixelBufferGroup:bufferGroup withPresentationTime:pts]) { // report error... } Appending does not raise any errors - eventually it just hangs on us and we never return from it... Real Issue: So either: The delegate assigned to the AVAssetWriter doesn't fire its assetWriter callback which should produce the segments The adapter hangs on the appendTaggedPixelBufferGroup before a segment is ready to be completed (but succeeds for a number of buffer groups before this happens). This is the same delegate class that's assigned to the non multi view code path if MV-HEVC is turned off which works perfectly.

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Hi Team, We are using AVFoundation to read metadata from a stream and have noticed some delay between when the stream provides metadata and when the app receives it. Could someone from the team advise on ways to reduce this? Thanks

Hello, We're seeing an intermittent issue when playing back FairPlay-protected HLS downloads while the device is offline. Assets are downloaded using AVAggregateAssetDownloadTask with FairPlay protection. After download, asset.assetCache.isPlayableOffline == true. On first playback attempt (offline), ~8% of downloads fail. Retrying playback always works. We recreate the asset and player on each attempt. During the playback setup, we try to load variants via: try await asset.load(.variants) This call sometimes fails with: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 “The Internet connection appears to be offline.” UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x105654a00 {Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 “The Internet connection appears to be offline.” UserInfo={NSDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline.}}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/2DDF9D7C-9197-46BE-8690-C23EE75C9E90/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.XVvqfh/Baggage_9DD4E2D3F9C0E68F.movpkg/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/2DDF9D7C-9197-46BE-8690-C23EE75C9E90/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.XVvqfh/Baggage_9DD4E2D3F9C0E68F.movpkg/, NSURL=file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/2DDF9D7C-9197-46BE-8690-C23EE75C9E90/Library/com.apple.UserManagedAssets.XVvqfh/Baggage_9DD4E2D3F9C0E68F.movpkg/, AVErrorFailedDependenciesKey=( “assetProperty_HLSAlternates” ), NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline.} This variant load is used to determine available audio tracks, check for Dolby support, and apply user language preferences. After this step, the AVPlayerItem also fails via Combine’s publisher for .status. However, retrying the entire process immediately after (same offline conditions, same asset path, new AVURLAsset) results in successful playback. Assets are represented using the following class: public class DownloadedAsset: AVURLAsset { public let id: String public let localFileUrl: URL public let fairplayLicenseUrlString: String? public let drmToken: String? var isProtected: Bool { return fairplayLicenseUrlString != nil } public init(id: String, localFileUrl: URL, fairplayLicenseUrlString: String?, drmToken: String?) { self.id = id self.localFileUrl = localFileUrl self.fairplayLicenseUrlString = fairplayLicenseUrlString self.drmToken = drmToken super.init(url: localFileUrl, options: nil) } } We use user-selected quality levels to control bitrate and multichannel (e.g. Dolby 5.1) downloads: let downloadQuality = UserDefaults.standard.downloadVideoQuality let bitrate: Int let shouldDownloadMultichannelTracks: Bool switch downloadQuality { case .dataSaver: shouldDownloadMultichannelTracks = false bitrate = 596564 case .standard: shouldDownloadMultichannelTracks = false bitrate = 1503844 case .best: shouldDownloadMultichannelTracks = true bitrate = 7038970 } var selections = multichannelIdentifiedMediaSelections if !shouldDownloadMultichannelTracks { selections = selections.filter { !$0.isMultichannel } } let task = session.aggregateAssetDownloadTask( with: asset, mediaSelections: selections.map { $0.mediaSelection }, assetTitle: title, assetArtworkData: nil, options: [AVAssetDownloadTaskMinimumRequiredMediaBitrateKey: bitrate] ) Seen on devices running iOS 16, iOS 17, and iOS 18. What could cause the initial failure of an otherwise valid, offline-ready FairPlay HLS asset? Could .load(.variants) internally trigger a failed network resolution, even when offline? Is there an internal caching or initialization behavior in AVFoundation that might explain why the second attempt works? Any guidance would be appreciated.

Keywords: FairPlay, FPS Certificate, DRM, FairPlay Streaming, license server Hi all, We are currently using FairPlay Streaming in production and already have an FPS certificate in place. However, the passphrase for the existing FPS certificate has unfortunately been lost. We are now considering reissuing a new FPS certificate, and I would like to confirm a few points before proceeding: 1️⃣ If we reissue a new FPS certificate, will the existing certificate be automatically revoked? Or will it remain valid until its original expiration date? 2️⃣ Is it possible to have both the newly issued and the existing certificates valid at the same time? In other words, can we serve DRM licenses using either certificate depending on the packaging or client? 3️⃣ Are there any caveats or best practices we should be aware of when reissuing an FPS certificate? For example, would existing packaged content become unplayable, or would CDN/packaging server configurations need to be updated carefully? Since this affects our production environment, we would like to minimize any service disruption or compatibility issues. Unfortunately, when we contacted Apple support directly, we were advised to post this question here in the Forums for additional guidance. Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

I’m building a music app using Apple Music streaming via ApplicationMusicPlayer. My goal is to decrease the volume of the current song during the last 10 seconds, and when the next track begins, restore the volume to its normal level. I know that ApplicationMusicPlayer doesn’t expose a volume API, and I want to avoid triggering the system volume HUD. ✅ Using Apple Music streaming (not local files) ❓ Is it possible to implement per-track fade-out/fade-in logic with ApplicationMusicPlayer? Appreciate any clarification or official guidance!

While validating a Dolby Vision Profile 5 playlist in CMAF format (with segments in MP4), the Media Stream Validator reported the following error in the MUXT-FIX-ISSUES list: However, the playlist correctly specifies Dolby Vision Profile 5 in both the EXT-X-STREAM-INF and EXT-X-I-STREAM-INF tags. Playlist: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:8 #EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio-ec3",LANGUAGE="und",NAME="Undetermined",AUTOSELECT=YES,CHANNELS="6",URI="var14711339/aud1257/playlist.m3u8?device_profile=hls&seg_size=6&cmaf=1" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=14680000,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=14676380,VIDEO-RANGE=PQ,CODECS="ec-3,dvh1.05.06",RESOLUTION=3840x2160,AUDIO="audio-ec3" var14711339/vid/playlist.m3u8?device_profile=hls&seg_size=6&cmaf=1 #EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1419881,URI="trk14711339/playlist.m3u8?device_profile=hls&cmaf=1",VIDEO-RANGE=PQ,CODECS="dvh1.05.06",RESOLUTION=3840x2160 Could you please review this and clarify: Why is the Media Stream Validator reporting this error, even though the playlist correctly includes Dolby Vision Profile 5 parameters in CMAF format? Why is this error not reported when using a playlist with TS segments instead of CMAF (MP4)?

Hi there, We're working on offline playback of DRM tracks. The persistent keys (also known as track licenses) for offline playback are stored locally on the device and are served from cache when a user initiates playback of a downloaded track. Our persistent keys have a limited validity time and need to be refreshed when they expire. To prevent a situation where a persistent key expires while the user is offline, we've decided to eagerly refresh these keys one week before their expiration date. To make that happen we need to be able to obtain the expiration date of the given track license. We've been attempting to use the makeSecureTokenForExpirationDateOfPersistableContentKey API to facilitate this process. The documentation states that this API returns a secret token representing the persistent key, which we can then exchange with our license server for the expiration date: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcontentkeysession/makesecuretokenforexpirationdate(ofpersistablecontentkey:completionhandler:)?language=objc However, every time we call makeSecureTokenForExpirationDateOfPersistableContentKey, we receive an error with code -46250. We haven't been able to find any public references or documentation for this specific error code, which is preventing us from troubleshooting the issue. We are conducting our tests on a physical device, as the simulator does not support FairPlay playback. We don't use dual expiry approach. Is our understanding of how to obtain the expiration timestamp correct? Are we using the makeSecureTokenForExpirationDateOfPersistableContentKey API as it was intended? What does the -46250 error code mean, and what steps should we take to fix our FairPlay implementation to make this work? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hey there, We're seeing a high rate of 403 - Invalid Authentication on this endpoint v1/me/library/artists since a few days. Does anyone have the same issue ?

We have a Low-Latency HLS stream, and on iOS 26, even though the bandwidth is sufficient, it still selects a low-bandwidth resolution (e.g., RESOLUTION=640x360) for playback instead of using a higher-bandwidth resolution (e.g., RESOLUTION=1920x1080) when using AVPlayerViewController with AVPlayer. This works fine on iOS version 18 and previous versions. What could be the solution to this issue?

Hi, I submitted the FairPlay Streaming Credentials Approval request, but it's been 15 days and I haven't received a response yet. Do you happen to know how long they usually take to reply to these requests?

HLS live streaming 4k is not displaying any video, but is streaming audio. Getting the following errors in the console where it shows that it is failing to decode every frame. Can I get some help as to what these error codes refer to and why it would fail to decode? 08:30:42.675879-0800 videocodecd AppleAVD: AppleAVDDecodeFrameInternal(): avdDec - Frame# 3588, DecodeFrame failed with error: 0x196 08:30:42.675908-0800 videocodecd AppleAVD: AppleAVDDisplayCallback(): Asking fig to drop frame # 3588 with err -12909 - internalStatus: 315 08:30:42.697412-0800 videocodecd AppleAVD: AppleAVDDecodeFrameResponse(): Frame# 3589 DecodeFrame failed with error 0x00000196 08:30:42.697876-0800 videocodecd AppleAVD: AppleAVDDecodeFrameInternal(): failed - error: 406