HSS specific output settings

Packager can enable the HSS (HTTP Smooth Streaming) mode. In this mode, you can configure the following parameters.

General

You can configure for HSS:

• General parameters
• Manifest settings
• Parameters mapping
• Advanced settings

Manifest settings

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 HSS outputs can be based either on:

• Bitrate in kbps - for Video/Audio/Subtitle streams filters.

  

• Codec (H.264 or HEVC) - for the Video streams filter.

  

• Language (H.264 or HEVC) - for the Video streams filter.

  

• Width (pixels) or Height (pixels) for the Thumbnail streams filter.

  

For more details, see Manifest.

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

The encryption provider for the HSS output is PlayReady.

• For more details about the fixed key generation mode, see PlayReady encryption - Fixed key generation mode.
• For more details about the external key generation mode, see PlayReady encryption - External key generation mode.

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).