HLS which API?

[kingargyle 19]

There appear to be multiple endpoints for HLS.  Just curious as to which is the recommended endpoints for a user to playback Movie and TV Shows.  My application isn't planning supporting Live TV but based on the APIs it wouldn't be overly difficult to do in the future.

 

Dave

 

[ebr 14903]

The way the system works is you tell the server exactly what you support (via a /playbackinfo call) and then it gives you an url to use for playback.

[Luke 37008]

if you're not using the /playbackinfo api, then to answer you more precisely, master.m3u8 is the main hls url.

[kingargyle 19]

Currently I'm not using the PlaybackInfo API (didn't see this documented on the Wiki), what I currently see for HLS services are:

 

http://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true#/DynamicHlsService

 

and

 

http://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true#/VideoHlsService

 

I'm assuming that it is the DynamicHlsService I should be using.

[Luke 37008]

Yes that's correct. Everything will end up going to master.m3u8.

 

The playbackInfo api is a newer construct that has you send up a device profile of what you support, and then the server will send back info on the ways you can play it. There are some server settings that will affect playback and this is currently the only way to make sure they all get respected. But I haven't had a chance to write documentation about it yet.