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bcsanti
bcsanti
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February 20, 2015
Question

Automating manifest file Links

  • February 20, 2015
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Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out a way to automate the process of creating a manifest file for a specific video. (I.e. File is uploaded to a folder watched by AME > AME encodes the file > I receive a *.m3u8 file that I can give to a client.) Similar to uploading a file to youtube and getting a link to watch it. I've done a bunch of searching and have come up empty. Any direction on how to tackle this would be great.

Thanks

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    Adobe Employee
    hparmar
    Adobe Employee
    February 24, 2015

    Adobe media server generates m3u8 files on the fly for a vod content...you can drop on a mp4 file and request a m3u8 corresponding to it and it should work.

    If for e.g you vod file is test.mp4 and is placed in webroot/vod folder in the default installation of AMS then you can request the playback of that file by following URL

    http://<server-host>/hds-vod/test.mp4.m3u8

    bcsanti
    bcsantiAuthor
    Participant
    February 24, 2015

    hparmar,

    If I put the address as you have shown above, I receive a 400 bad request error. Am I not doing something right? Also, if I put the manifest file in, as shown but with the .f4m extension, it only shows the xml data. I think I'm just missing something here.

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    Adobe Employee
    hparmar
    Adobe Employee
    February 24, 2015

    A little correction:

    HDS URL Is: http://<server-host>/hds-vod/test.mp4.f4m

    HLS URL Is: http://<server-host>/hls-vod/test.mp4.m3u8

    You need to have HDS or HLS player on the client side...The manifest files(f4m or m3u8) will be input to players that would play those streams.

    A browser will not play it from simply the URL string.

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