How to play a video-on-demand (VOD) or live stream from Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software on Apple iOS devices.
A. LIVE STREAM
This section describes how to play a live stream named myStream from a live application.
After sending a live stream to Wowza Streaming Engine, enter the following URL into Safari on the iOS device:
http://[ address ]:1935/[ application-name ]/myStream/playlist.m3u8
This stream can also be played by using Safari or QuickTime 10. x on a computer that’s running OS X 10.6 or later.
If your live stream has a different name, use it instead of myStream in the playback URL.
B. VOD (Video On-Demand) mp4 file:
This section describes how to play the default [ install-dir ]/content/sample.mp4 video file from a VOD application.
For details about how to create a Wowza Streaming Engine application for VOD streaming, see Set up video-on-demand streaming in Wowza Streaming Engine.
Enter the following URL into Safari on the iOS device:
http://[ address ]:1935/[ application-name ]/mp4:sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8
This stream can also be played by using Safari or QuickTime 10. x on a computer that’s running OS X 10.6 or later.
To play your own content, copy it to the server [ install-dir ]/content folder and substitute its file name in place of sample.mp4 in the playback URL.
Note: In Wowza Streaming Engine, MP4 is the default stream format and you’re not required to use the mp4: stream name prefix to play the sample video file. For example: http://[ address ]:1935/[ application-name ]/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8
To play content that’s not in the content root folder ( [ install-dir ]/content ), add the default application instance name to the playback URL. For example, if the sample.mp4 video file is in [ install-dir ]/myVideos/sample.mp4 , the playback URL is:
http://[ address ]:1935/[ application-name ]/definst/myVideos/mp4:sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8
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