How to add EXT-X-SESSION-KEY in playlist.m3u8 for iOS FPS offline playback?

[Harshal_Khairnar]

I’m trying to enable offline playback of DRM protected content on iOS devices. as per apple documentation it requires EXT-X-SESSION-KEY tag in playlist to persist / pre-fetch all the keys

can anyone help me how to set this up in wowza streaming engine?

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Checking for you @Harshal Khairnar and will post shortly.

[Harshal_Khairnar]

Thank you @Rose Power-Wowza Community Manager for looking into it. please guide me through this.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

You’re welcome. Sorry for the delay- the engineers are looking into an alternative for you since we don’t yet support the EXT-X-SESSION-KEY. But, I will post again when I have an option for you to try…probably by the end of the day @Harshal Khairnar.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Apologies @sudharsan thiru, we do not support the EXT-X-SESSION-KEY at this time.

In the meantime, you can look into implementing a custom workflow where you can create your own playlists using a custom Apple HLS stream target.

https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/wse-example-pushpublish-hls

You can alternatively create the playlist.m3u8 file only using third-party tools, and have it reference the chunklist URI in the playlist generated by Wowza.

Players would initially request this high-level manifest file with the EXT-X-SESSION-KEY tag, and then request the chunklist.m3u8 URI found in the high-level manifest.

The request for this feature has been submitted to the Engine team.

[Harshal_Khairnar]

OK. thank you for your response on this. Please let know when engine team adds this feature.