Make backward compatibility in playlist syntax

[misano]

Dear Wowza Developer Team!

I have found out the small different between syntax of playlists in Wowza3 and Wowza2.

This is fragment of the network trace between client (Verimatrix iOS Player) and server Wowza 2:

GET /vod/smil:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD.smil/playlist.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: host.name:1935
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
User-Agent: Verimatrix iPhone Secure Proxy
X-Playback-Session-Id: 4B5C96DF-DE45-4004-A8F1-C6A47326441B

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:46:04 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Server: FlashCom/3.5.4
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 510

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=500000
http://host.name:1935/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_500K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1817916475
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1000000
http://host.name:1935/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_1000K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1817916475
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1500000
http://host.name:1935/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_1500K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1817916475

This is fragment of the network trace between client (Verimatrix iOS Player) and server Wowza 3:

GET /vod/smil:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD.smil/playlist.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: host.name:1935
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
User-Agent: Verimatrix iPhone Secure Proxy
X-Playback-Session-Id: 2D3F3026-9D16-47AD-A6CF-CC366E56DA6D

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:50:46 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Server: FlashCom/3.5.5
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 441

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=500000
/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_500K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1722610989
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1000000
/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_1000K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1722610989
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1500000
/vod/_definst_/mp4:DM_Toy_Story_3_HD_H264_1500K_25p.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1722610989

The different is: Wowza2 sends the full URL for each streams in playlist. The Wowza3 sends relative URL.

On some clients, for example Verimatrix iOS player, AirTies STB, this new playlist syntax are not parsed correctly. So, it is not possible to play multibitrate content from Wowza3 with this clients. But they play such content from Wowza2 fine.

Is it possible to configure Wowza3 server for making playlist with full URLs?

Thank you in advance!

Georgy.

[charlie]

Relative playlists work fine for me with verimatrix and their iOS player. Have you contacted them about this?

See this post for more information:

http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/sho...-playlist-URLs

Charlie

[misano]

Many thanks! All my clients now works fine!

Yes, I'm in contact with Verimatrix team concerning my issue. May be you use another version of iOS player? I use 1.0.7.1_GA.

Georgy.