HLS Troubleshooting
This post will attempt to gather the common HLS issues and solutions that people are running into when rolling out solutions. The Encoding guide in the SDK will include much more detail, but this post...
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Unfortunately gzip on the server is not an option (at least not for the foreseeable future).
Why would dynamic content preclude range requests? The HTTP specification defines how to request range requests for content with a dynamic endpoint (Range: bytes=10-). In fact, iOS makes range requests (sample request headers below from an iPhone) so it is definitely possible (and advisable, IMO).
GET /testvideo/main.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
User-Agent: AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.9A405 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X; en_us)
Accept: */*
Range: bytes=0-1
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Playback-Session-Id: BA0654E2-75C7-4FD2-AFF8-28FEB3F69244
Connection: keep-alive
Why would dynamic content preclude range requests? The HTTP specification defines how to request range requests for content with a dynamic endpoint (Range: bytes=10-). In fact, iOS makes range requests (sample request headers below from an iPhone) so it is definitely possible (and advisable, IMO).
GET /testvideo/main.m3u8 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mydomain.com
User-Agent: AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.9A405 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X; en_us)
Accept: */*
Range: bytes=0-1
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Playback-Session-Id: BA0654E2-75C7-4FD2-AFF8-28FEB3F69244
Connection: keep-alive
