ran.de Livestream API
ran.de provides for some sport events a live stream in Germany. This article shows you the API behind it (tested only with the NFL streams). Since it is undocumented it can change anytime. What livestreams are planned? First we need to know, if a stream is currently...Using FFmpeg as a HLS streaming server (Part 7) – Fixing Peak Bitrate
This is a series of articles. Follow the link here to get an overview over all articles. Ok, time to concentrate on the next error shown from the mediastreamvalidator: Measured peak bitrate compared to master playlist declared value exceeds error tolerance I...NFL Public API
This article is a short summary about all public available and machine readable data of the NFL. Scores A good entry for this is the following URL: https://feeds.nfl.com/feeds-rs/scores.json The root node contains metadata about the current week. This information will...Using FFmpeg as a HLS streaming server (Part 6) – Independent Segments
This is a series of articles. Follow the link here to get an overview over all articles. The next point on our MUSTFIX-list of the mediastreamvalidator is: If EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS is not in master playlist, then you MUST use the EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS tag in...gzip compression for HLS playlists
We have used in the last article the mediastreamvalidator from Apple to create a report of recommendations for our stream. Now we start fixing this by starting with the following message: The server MUST deliver playlists using gzip content-encoding All Variants...HLS Stream validation
Apple provides a bunch of tools to create and (more important for me) to validate HLS streams. Media Stream Validator (mediastreamvalidator) simulates an HTTP Live Streaming session and verifies that the index file and media segments conform to the HTTP Live Streaming...Using FFmpeg as a HLS streaming server (Part 5) – Folder Structure
This is a series of articles. Follow the link here to get an overview over all articles. Previously on Using FFmpeg as a HLS streaming server (Part 4) – Multiple Video Resolutions. The command until now looks like the following: ./ffmpeg -listen 1 -i...About Me
My name is Martin Riedl living in Germany. I'm working since more than 15 years as software developer.
