Publishing video live stream by HLS

Report · Mar 27, 2015

We've setup an AMS 5 environment and publish a live video on an URL like : rtmp://<my_ams_host>/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02 then we were able to read the stream by RTMP as well.

But we wanted to read the live stream using HLS protocol. We've setup the bundled apache (with AMS) as recommaned in the technical documentation.

Normaly we would be able to read the stream at the URL : http://<my_ams_host>/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8.
But we got 404 errors as if the resource was not found.

The "hls-live" location is configured as following

HLSHttpStreamingEnabled true

HttpStreamingLiveEventPath "/opt/adobe/ams/applications"

HttpStreamingContentPath "/opt/adobe/ams/applications"

HLSMediaFileDuration 8000

HLSSlidingWindowLength 6

HLSFmsDirPath "/opt/adobe/ams"

HttpStreamingUnavailableResponseCode 503

HLSM3U8MaxAge 2

HLSTSSegmentMaxAge -1

HLSMetaMaxAge 3600

HLSMaxEventAge 300

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

The hls module is loaded. Vérication made by the following command

sshams@mv271:~$ sudo /opt/adobe/ams/Apache2.2/bin/apachectl -M

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_f4fhttp.cpp(985): mod_f4fhttp - found Professional license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_f4fhttp.cpp(992): mod_f4fhttp - timeout is unlimited

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_f4fhttp.cpp(1005): mod_f4fhttp - phds permitted by license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(958): mod_hlshttp - found Professional license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(965): mod_hlshttp - timeout is unlimited

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(978): mod_hlshttp - Vanilla/PHLS encryption permitted by license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(958): mod_hlshttp - found Professional license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(965): mod_hlshttp - timeout is unlimited

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_ioshttp.cpp(978): mod_hlshttp - Vanilla/PHLS encryption permitted by license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [info] mod_jithttp - AMS installation path: "/opt/adobe/ams"

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_jithttp.cpp(813): mod_jithttp - found Professional license

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_jithttp.cpp(820): mod_jithttp - timeout is unlimited

[Fri Mar 27 08:48:14 2015] [debug] mod_jithttp.cpp(833): mod_jithttp - PHDS is enabled

httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.17.1.71 for ServerName

Loaded Modules:

...

cache_module (shared)

disk_cache_module (shared)

alias_module (shared)

f4fhttp_module (shared)

hlshttp_module (shared)

jithttp_module (shared)

ctrlplane_module (shared)

Syntax OK

After activating debug mode on Apache, we got the following detail in the apache error log

...

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] mod_cache.c(141): Adding CACHE_SAVE filter for /hls-live/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] mod_cache.c(148): Adding CACHE_REMOVE_URL filter for /hls-live/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] requesthandler.cpp(246): Reading application wide configs.

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] requesthandler.cpp(246): generating prog index for event:livepkgr/events/events/_definst_ stream name:liveevent/testlive02

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [error] [client 41.190.237.66] File does not exist: /opt/adobe/ams/webroot/hls-live

...

What could be the issue ?

- Our Settings ?

- Our HLS-LIVE URL ?

Any help will be welcome !!!

Regards.

Mamisoa RAMANITRARIVO.

Report · Mar 30, 2015

Hi Mamisoa,

Welcome to adobe forums.

Kindly check your HLS url it should be like this : http://<my_ams_host>/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream.m3u8 and make sure that you play HLS stream on Mac safari browser.

And please place the crossdomain.xml file inside your server webroot so that It can allow connections from other domain, you can edit this xml file based upon your requirement.

Here is the sample crossdomain.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<allow-access-from domain="*" />

<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>

</cross-domain-policy>

Let me know if you need any help.

Regards,

Puspendra

Report · Apr 07, 2015

Hi Pushpendra and thanks for your answer.
But, unfortunately I keep on to have the same error.

Actually, I've made a mistake in my message above. My HLS-LIVE URL is http://<my_ams_host>/hls-live/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8.
Could you explain me why I had the following line in my apache's error_log

...

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] mod_cache.c(141): Adding CACHE_SAVE filter for /hls-live/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] mod_cache.c(148): Adding CACHE_REMOVE_URL filter for /hls-live/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent/testlive02.m3u8

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] requesthandler.cpp(246): Reading application wide configs.

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [debug] requesthandler.cpp(246): generating prog index for event:livepkgr/events/events/_definst_ stream name:liveevent/testlive02

[Thu Mar 26 17:18:52 2015] [error] [client 41.190.237.66] File does not exist: /opt/adobe/ams/webroot/hls-live

...

Why did Apache try to find the resource under the "webroot" directory. I thought it's a kind of "virtual resource". Isn't it ???

Thanks in advance.

Mamisoa.

Report · Apr 09, 2015

Did you placed crossdomain.xml file inside webroot of AMS.

Regards,

Puspendra

Report · Apr 09, 2015

Yes, of course 🙂

Mamisoa.

Report · Apr 13, 2015

Please upload your httpd.conf.

Report · Jun 03, 2015

Unable to upload my apache config file, I've dumped its whole content below

#

# This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the

# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.

# See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/> for detailed information.

# In particular, see

# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/directives.html>

# for a discussion of each configuration directive.

#

# Please see httpd.conf.orig for the configuration of a default

# (non-AMS) installation of apache.

#Listen 80

Listen 8134

# If you plan to run AMS as root on linux, you _must_ specify a

# valid user, with access to the AMS installation direction, or

# apache will not run.

#

# If you've used the default installer, nobody (or whatever other

# username you gave to the installer) will work here.

#

# If you're running a developer build under your own home directory,

# you should use your own username.

AccessFileName .htaccess

ServerSignature On

UseCanonicalName Off

HostnameLookups Off

Timeout 120

KeepAlive On

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 15

ErrorLog logs/error_log

LogLevel debug

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

CustomLog logs/access_log combined

# Proxy rtmpt to AMS

ProxyRequests Off

ProxyPass /open/ http://localhost:1935/open/

ProxyPass /close/ http://localhost:1935/close/

ProxyPass /idle/ http://localhost:1935/idle/

ProxyPass /send/ http://localhost:1935/send/

ProxyPass /fcs/ http://localhost:1935/fcs/

ProxyPass /fms/ http://localhost:1935/fms/

DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\webroot"

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.php3 index.php4 index.php5 index.py index.pl index.rb

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

Satisfy all

</Directory>

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Alias /documentation ../documentation/

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Alias /icons/ "icons/"

Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Alias /error/ "error/"

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "cgi-bin/"

AllowOverride None

Options None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

SetHandler server-status

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from 10.0.0.0/8

Allow from 172.16.0.0/12

Allow from 192.168.0.0/16

Allow from 127.

</Location>

ExtendedStatus On

SetHandler server-info

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from 10.0.0.0/8

Allow from 172.16.0.0/12

Allow from 192.168.0.0/16

Allow from 127.

</Location>

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

</FilesMatch>

ThreadsPerChild 250

MaxRequestsPerChild 0

</IfModule>

StartServers 2

MaxClients 150

MinSpareThreads 25

MaxSpareThreads 75

ThreadsPerChild 25

MaxRequestsPerChild 0

</IfModule>

LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so

LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so

LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so

LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so

LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so

LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so

#LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so

LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so

LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so

#LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so

LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so

LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so

LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so

LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so

LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so

#LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

</IfModule>

LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so

</IfModule>

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so

LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so

LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so

#LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so

#LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

LoadModule imagemap_module modules/mod_imagemap.so

LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so

LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so

LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so

</IfModule>

LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so

LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so

LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so

LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so

LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so

LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so

LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so

#LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so

LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so

LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so

LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

#LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so

#LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

LoadModule f4fhttp_module modules/mod_f4fhttp.so

LoadModule hlshttp_module modules/mod_hlshttp.so

LoadModule jithttp_module modules/mod_jithttp.so

LoadModule ctrlplane_module modules/mod_ctrlplane.so

SetHandler ctrlplane

HdsHttpStreamingLiveEventPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

HlsHttpStreamingLiveEventPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

MaxBootstrapAge 300

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

</IfModule>

##############################################################################

# The following section enables caching of Just-In-Time packaged content #

# Use htcacheclean tool to manage the amount of data that is cached on disk. #

# See Apache documentation for its usage. #

# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/htcacheclean.html #

# Make sure the directory specified by the CacheRoot directive exists. The #

# default is a directory named cacheroot that is directly under the Apache #

# installation directory. #

# For more information on content caching, see Apache documentation #

# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/caching.html #

##############################################################################

# Uncomment this to enable caching

#LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so

LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so

CacheEnable disk /hds-vod

CacheEnable disk /hls-vod

CacheRoot cacheroot

CacheMaxFileSize 10000000

CacheLock On

</IfModule>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.apple.mpegurl

Header append Vary Accept-Encoding env=!dont-vary

</IfModule>

HttpStreamingEnabled true

HttpStreamingContentPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\webroot\vod"

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

# Drop the Range header when more than 5 ranges.

# CVE-2011-3192

SetEnvIf Range (,.*?){5,} bad-range=1

RequestHeader unset Range env=bad-range

# map old style url to new (as of FMS 4.5), more compact url

Redirect 301 /live/events/livepkgr/events /hds-live/livepkgr

Redirect 301 /live/events/livepkgr/streams/livepkgr /hds-live/streams/livepkgr

# If you are using any other location directive and 'audio-only=true' in the query parameter for AMS 5.0,

# please replace hls-live or hls-vod with that location directive below

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} audio-only=true

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} codec=aac

RewriteRule ^/hls-vod/(.+).m3u8$ /hls-vod/audio-only-aac/$1.m3u8? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} audio-only=true

RewriteRule ^/hls-vod/(.+).m3u8$ /hls-vod/audio-only/$1.m3u8? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} audio-only=true

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} codec=aac

RewriteRule ^/hls-live/(.+).m3u8$ /hls-live/audio-only-aac/$1.m3u8? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} audio-only=true

RewriteRule ^/hls-live/(.+).m3u8$ /hls-live/audio-only/$1.m3u8? [R=301,L]

HttpStreamingEnabled true

HttpStreamingLiveEventPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

HttpStreamingContentPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

HdsFmsDirPath ".."

HttpStreamingF4MMaxAge 2

HttpStreamingBootstrapMaxAge 2

HttpStreamingDrmmetaMaxAge 3600

HttpStreamingFragMaxAge -1

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

</IfModule>

HLSHttpStreamingEnabled true

HttpStreamingLiveEventPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

HttpStreamingContentPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\applications"

HLSMediaFileDuration 8000

HLSSlidingWindowLength 6

HLSFmsDirPath ".."

HttpStreamingUnavailableResponseCode 503

########################################

# Cache-control header configuration start

# Specify the max-age(in secs) to set in the Cache-Control header

# for different response types (m3u8, ts, drmmeta,...).

# A value of -1 turns off setting the cache control header.

HLSM3U8MaxAge 2

HLSTSSegmentMaxAge -1

HLSMetaMaxAge 3600

HLSMaxEventAge 300

# Cache-control header configuration end

########################################

# Uncomment the following directives to enable encryption

# for this location.

# HLSEncryptionScope server

# HLSEncryptCipherKeyFile "../creds/liveeventkey.bin"

# HLSEncryptKeyURI "https://<ServerName>/hls-key/liveeventkey.bin"

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

HLSHttpStreamingEnabled true

HLSMediaFileDuration 8000

HttpStreamingContentPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\webroot\vod"

HLSFmsDirPath ".."

HLSJITConfAllowed true

########################################

# Cache-control header configuration start

# Specify the max-age(in secs) to set in the Cache-Control header

# for different response types (m3u8, ts, drmmeta,...).

# A value of -1 turns off setting the cache control header.

HLSM3U8MaxAge 86400

HLSTSSegmentMaxAge 86400

HLSMetaMaxAge 3600

# Cache-control header configuration end

########################################

# Uncomment the following directives to enable encryption

# for this location.

# HLSEncryptionScope server

# HLSEncryptCipherKeyFile "../creds/vodkey.bin"

# HLSEncryptKeyURI "https://<ServerName>/hls-key/vodkey.bin"

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

</IfModule>

HttpStreamingJITPEnabled true

HttpStreamingContentPath "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Server 5\webroot\vod"

HttpStreamingJITConfAllowed true

JitFmsDirPath ".."

Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

# Uncomment the following directives to enable encryption

# for this location.

# EncryptionScope server

# ProtectionScheme phds

</Location>

</IfModule>

TypesConfig conf/mime.types

MIMEMagicFile conf/magic

DefaultType text/plain

AddType video/x-flv .flv

AddType video/MP2T .ts

AddType application/x-compress .Z

AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

AddType application/x-mpegurl .m3u8

AddHandler send-as-is asis

AddHandler type-map var

AddType text/html .shtml

AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

SSLRandomSeed startup builtin

SSLRandomSeed connect builtin

</IfModule>

UserDir disable

</IfModule>

DAVLockDB tmp/dav/lockdb

</IfModule>

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable

AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*

AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*

AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*

AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) application/x-shockwave-flash

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe

AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx

AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar

AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv

AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip

AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps

AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf

AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt

AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c

AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py

AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for

AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi

AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu

AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl

AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex

AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..

AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README

AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^

AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

ReadmeName README.html

HeaderName HEADER.html

IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

AddLanguage ca .ca

AddLanguage cs .cz .cs

AddLanguage da .dk

AddLanguage de .de

AddLanguage el .el

AddLanguage en .en

AddLanguage eo .eo

AddLanguage es .es

AddLanguage et .et

AddLanguage fr .fr

AddLanguage he .he

AddLanguage hr .hr

AddLanguage it .it

AddLanguage ja .ja

AddLanguage ko .ko

AddLanguage ltz .ltz

AddLanguage nl .nl

AddLanguage nn .nn

AddLanguage no .no

AddLanguage pl .po

AddLanguage pt .pt

AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br

AddLanguage ru .ru

AddLanguage sv .sv

AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn

AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw

LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW

ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

AllowOverride None

Options IncludesNoExec

AddOutputFilter Includes html

AddHandler type-map var

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

LanguagePriority en es de fr

ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

</Directory>

</IfModule>

BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive

BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully

BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully

#Uncomment following for enabling https based key serving

#for HLS.

#Include conf/httpd-hls-secure.conf

Hoping it will help.

Mamisoa.

Report · Apr 13, 2015

Hi Mamisoa:

I use FMS 4.5 so excuse some of these questions.

Use the most permissive crossdomain.xml settings (allow everything) to see if this fixes your issue: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AppSec/CrossDomain_PolicyFile_Specification.pdf
Livepkgr application location: > Why did Apache try to find the resource under the "webroot" directory. Is /opt/adobe/ams/applications the default application location for ams? The reason that I ask is that in FMS 4.5 the livepkgr application is contained in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 4.5\applications. Did you change this during installation?
Live encoding: Are you using FMLE for live encoding, and if so, are you making sure that you’re setting it up properly: https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-media-server/dev/stream-live-media-http.html#publish_and_play_live_mul...
How are you trying to test/play the HLS live stream? Safari or an iOS device? In any case, you can also use the videoplayer.html in the samples folder for testing.
In FMS 4.5, the livepkgr application makes 2 folders with the name of the livestream event (whatever you specified it as in FMLE) in events/_definst_ and streams\_definst_. I’ve found that sometimes the streaming will not work unless you delete any old streaming files in these folders before you start encoding again(do not delete the Event.xml and Manifest.xml files that are needed for multi-bitrate streaming).

See the article linked in No. 3 and follow the steps for a single stream before you try multi-streams:

Publish and play live multi-bitrate streams over HTTP

Live multi-bitrate streams:

1. Edit rootinstall\conf\config.xml file (step 2 above) on the FMLE computer.
2. On the streaming server: go to FMS 4.5/applications/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent
1. Remove the Manifest.xml file from the liveevent folder or rename it.

Browse to rootinstall/applications/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent and edit the Event.xml file to look like the following:

<Event>

<EventID>liveevent</EventID>

</Recording>

</Event>

Create the f4m and m3u8 manifest files:

On the FMS 4.5 computer, open rootinstall/tools/f4mconfig/configurator/f4mconfig.html in a browser.
F4M manifest file:
1. Stream uri: livestream1.f4m 150kbps, livestream2.f4m 500kbps, livestream3.f4m 700kbps.
2. Base uri: http://localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent
3. save the file as liveevent.f4m to rootinstall/webroot or on the webserver.
4. JW Player does not support f4m files. Must use a smil file for this.
5. m3u8 manifest file: Open rootinstall/tools/f4mconfig/configurator/f4mconfig.html in a browser.
  1. http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream1.m3u8 150kbps
  2. http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream2.m3u8 500kbps
  3. http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream3.m3u8 700kbps
  4. Save file as liveevent.m3u8:

#EXTM3U #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=150000

http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream1.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=500000

http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream2.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=700000

http:// localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream3.m3u8

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