.F4f packager and .F4m

[Guest]

Hello, I will start using HDS to my videos and I have a simple question.

I have access to the F4M generator on my server, so I go there put the name of my files, bitrate and etc and save the manifest file and call it on strobe for example.

But, If I use the F4F packager it will generate a .F4M file for me, so which one do I need to use?

I am going to use multi-bitrate files and strobe media playback.

Thanks a lot.

[Guest]

Hi,

When you use the f4fpackager to package the content, among other things it generates a manifest(.f4m) file that contains information about the media file. You need to use this file for playback.

You can find more information regarding the f4fpackager here : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/HTTPStreaming/1.0/Using/WS9463dbe8dbe45c4c-c126f3b1260533756d-7ffc.html

Instead of using a toplevel manifest file, you can package a set of multi-birate files using the f4fpackager. You can find more information regarding this here : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/HTTPStreaming/1.0/Using/WS9463dbe8dbe45c4c-c126f3b1260533756d-7ffc.html#...

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Apurva

[Guest]

hey Apurva, thanks for your reply.

I hosted the strobe media playback on a web server and I am trying to player my file there.

I used the f4f packager, encoded my 3 files, all generated correctly (f4f, f4m, f4x) but when I point strobe to the URL containing the f4m file strobe throw the error:

"We are having problems with playback, we apologize for inconvenience."

the URL I`m using is as follows:

http://myserver.com/dynamic/source_1200Kbps_480p.f4m

P.S - All files are in the same folder (dynamic)

Thanks.