HLS over TS specific output settings (HTTP Live Streaming)
Packager can enable the HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) mode over TS (Transport Streams). In this mode, you can configure the following parameters.
General
You can configure for HLS over TS:
HLS output type configuration
Playlists
By default, the output manifest is delivered without any specific bitrate filtering. Depending on your delivery needs, you can adjust the bitrate filtering on your manifest and add manifests with variant filtering parameters.
Stream characteristics filtering for HLS outputs can be based either on:
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Bitrate in kbps - for Video/Audio/Subtitle streams filters.
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Codec (H.264 or HEVC) - for the Video streams filter.
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Language (H.264 or HEVC) - for the Video streams filter.
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Width (pixels) or Height (pixels) for the Thumbnail streams filter.
The Nielsen Watermarking filtering can be based on:
- Linear
- C3
- C7
For more details about the Stream Filtering and the Nielsen Watermarking modes, see the Playlist parameter descriptions.
URL Signing
MediaKind Packaging allows you to sign and validate content URLs to restrict access to some users and limit viewing times. You can define the following parameters:
- Version
- Key owner
- Key ID
- Key
- Expiration time
- URL preambule
- Client IP
For more details about the URL Signing parameters, see Cisco URL signature.
Advanced settings
You can define different advanced settings:
- Multiplex mode
- Metadata insertion
- Insert audio only
For more details, see Advanced settings.
Delivery
You can define different delivery parameters, like Access URL, Playlist distribution URL or Media distribution URL. You can also define a secondary external origin service location to make the content available on two distinct external origin servers.
For more details, see Delivery.
Encryption
| Encryption method | |
|---|---|
| Keys | Adobe Access |
| Fixed key generation mode | |
| External key generation mode | |
| Internal key generation mode | |
| External key (Irdeto interface) generation mode | X |
| External key (MediaKind interface) generation mode | |
| External key (Bouygues Telecom interface) generation mode | |
| External key (Kaltura interface) generation mode | |
| External key (Nagra KSS interface) generation mode |
For more details, see HLS over TS Encryption.
Content replacement
Placement opportunity information service (POIS) is a process that identifies and provides descriptions of placement opportunities for media (such as the availability to insert ads).
Upon placement opportunity notification, POIS will return specific ad information to be inserted within a sparse track.
For more details, see Placement opportunity information service (POIS).