Hello, I'm trying to create HLS output with segment time of 6 seconds, but sync samples (fragments) every 1 second. I want to have AVAssetWriter write a sync sample / moof header every second. Am I correct in understanding that I could only achieve this with a pre-fragmented MP4 and use a passthrough rendition with setting preferredOutputSegmentInterval to indefinite and running flushSegment() as needed? Or is there another method using AVFoundation? Thanks in advance.

After the update on iOS 18, FairPlay content does not play. We get an error: CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12891. this error occurs after sending a ckc message. What does this error mean? Everything works fine on iOS < 18.

First, when the player uses m3u8 There should be a restart button on the player banner As a result, sometimes the frame image does not update when seeking forward The same behavior observed with AppleTV's default app In addition, the same issue occurs when playing Apple event videos

The list of certificates on the Apple Developer web console shows the expiry of my Fairplay Streaming certificate as 'Never'. However, if I download the same certificate and import it into my KeyChain, the certificate details show the listed expiry as 11 OCT 2023. Which of these is correct? If the expiry in the certificate is correct, how do I renew it safely. With my App the below lines fails at the process of -streamingContentKeyRequestData- CODE guard let contentIdData = (loadingRequest.request.url?.host ?? "").data(using: .utf8), let spcData = try? loadingRequest.streamingContentKeyRequestData( forApp: certificate!, // This certificate is expired contentIdentifier: contentIdData, options: nil ) else { print("Error: Failed to generate SPC data due to expired certificate.") loadingRequest.finishLoading(with: NSError(domain: "com.example.error", code: -3, userInfo: nil)) return false }

Hi I'm trying to stream a H264 video feed that is coming from a uniview IP camera in a browser however the stream is just not displaying. Either I get a single frame or just a black screen. I get the same issues on safari on the mac or any browser on an iphone. However the video stream works just fine using hls.js in Windows or on Android. We are grabbing the the RTSP stream from the camera and using ngix to serve the .m3u8 url. However even if we save the stream to a file and try an play it on the iphone it has the same issue (unless we use a separate media player like VLC). I know if we use ffmpeg to reencode as H264 rather than copy it the it will play. My guess there is an incompatibility between how uniview encode the video and what apple can accept. I've asked uniview and they are not sure what the problem is either. Is there a way to get more debug information on why a particular HLS stream is failing in safari on mac or iPhone.

Hi, I am writing to seek any help or workaround regarding an issue I have encountered while implementing Low-Latency HLS playback using the AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate. I have been successfully loading playlists during HLS live playback using the AVAssetResourceLoaderDelegate. However, after introducing Low-Latency HLS, I have run into a problem. When the AVPlayer loads low-latency content playback natively, everything works fine. But when I use the delegate for loading, I encounter the following error from AVPlayer's status observer: CoreMediaErrorDomain -15410 Low Latency: Server must support http2 ECN and SACK It seems there is no problem since playback does not stop, but there is a very critical part missing. The playback does not achieve the expected low latency and behaves similarly to standard HLS. Additionally, this behavior only occurs on iOS 16 devices and simulators. On iOS 17 simulators and devices, the error message does not appear, and the latency remains low as expected. Therefore, I suspect that there might be some misjudgment in the verification process within the internal implementation of AVPlayer. Since our app needs to support iOS 16, I would appreciate any solutions, methods to try, or workarounds that you could share regarding this issue. Thank you.

When we tried to play the encrypted playback for the Verimatrix DRM provider on their player, it did not play on iOS devices. Upon further communication with them, we learned that we need an FPS deployment package from Apple to set up our organization's lab account in the DRM environment. I first tried using my personal Apple account, and then I created a new Apple account with my organization's email address. Both accounts are showing the same error, 'Your account can’t access this page,' when clicking on the FPS deployment package from this link: https://developer.apple.com/streaming/fps/. The error likely arises from insufficient permissions or account roles required to access Apple’s DRM resources. Could you please support to resolve this permission issue or how should we proceed to obtain the FPS deployment package to make the successful fairplay encrypted playback? Awaiting for your response. Thanks, Ramajayadevi.

Hi there, After upgrading to iOS 18, I noticed that ApplicationMusicPlayer.Queue behavior has broken if at least one song that is added to the queue is also in to the Apple Music Library on the device. The resulting behavior is that the queue does not accept all the items, and only items that are in the Library are playable in the queue. The expected behavior and the previous behavior on iOS 17 was that all the items would be added to the queue successfully. I confirmed this behavior on a separate test device running iOS 17.7. The items added are all being fetched via MusicCatalogResourceRequest<Song> so I would expect that a requested song being present in the library would have no effect.

I use AVPlayer to play HLS video successfully on macOS Sonoma, but I encountered this error on macOS Sequoia. Please help me: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11833 ‘Cannot Decode’ UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600001e57330 {Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12906 ‘(null)’}, NSLocalizedFailureReason=The decoder required for this media cannot be found., AVErrorMediaTypeKey=vide, NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot Decode} Thanks!

Case-ID: 9391388 Our application uses timed Metadata as part of a rating control system. We noticed a problem in production and diagnosis shows that we stop receiving timed Metadata on iOS18 only Our live streams are primed with metadata at least once per second but we are seeing extended gaps in receiving this content, in excess of 10 minutes. We have also observed that this happens more as the player climbs the bitrate ladder, and doesn't happen if we cap to a low resolution i.e. a preferredMaximumResolution of 768x432. Furthermore, if we throttle network conditions after we stop receiving metadata the we start receiving them again. Following is a simple example that demonstrates the above behaviour, unfortunately I cannot share the live stream endpoint which is primed with metadata publicly, but can provide privately to Apple to reproduce the problem. import UIKit import AVKit class ViewController: UIViewController, AVPlayerItemMetadataOutputPushDelegate { var player: AVPlayer? var itemMetadataOutput: AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput? override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) { guard let url = URL(string: "endpoint redacted") else { return } let player = AVPlayer(url: url) let controller = AVPlayerViewController() controller.player = player self.player = player present(controller, animated: true) { player.play() let currentItem = player.currentItem let itemMetadataOutput = AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput(identifiers: nil) self.itemMetadataOutput = itemMetadataOutput self.itemMetadataOutput?.setDelegate(self, queue: .main) currentItem?.add(itemMetadataOutput) } } public func metadataOutput(_ output: AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput, didOutputTimedMetadataGroups groups: [AVTimedMetadataGroup], from track: AVPlayerItemTrack?) { print("received metadata \(Date())") } }