PlayerItem's status changed to AVPlayerItemStatusFailed in observeValueForKeyPath, and the error is: PlayerItem status failed: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11850 "Operation Stopped" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The server is not correctly configured., NSLocalizedDescription=Operation Stopped, NSUnderlyingError=0x281e535a0 {Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12939 "byte range and no content length - error code is 200" UserInfo={NSDescription=byte range and no content length - error code is 200, NSURL=https://icecast.walmradio.com:8443/walm2_opus}}} The stream URL is https://icecast.walmradio.com:8443/walm2_opus Both safari and chrome can play it. CURL output is as the following: curl -v "https://icecast.walmradio.com:8443/walm2_opus" Trying 185.217.92.116:8443... Connected to icecast.walmradio.com (185.217.92.116) port 8443 (#0) ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1 (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem CApath: none (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ALPN: server accepted http/1.1 Server certificate: subject: CN=*.walmradio.com start date: Aug 7 01:02:56 2023 GMT expire date: Nov 5 01:02:55 2023 GMT subjectAltName: host "icecast.walmradio.com" matched cert's "*.walmradio.com" issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3 SSL certificate verify ok. using HTTP/1.1 GET /walm2_opus HTTP/1.1 Host: icecast.walmradio.com:8443 User-Agent: curl/7.88.1 Accept: / < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx < Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:15:20 GMT < Content-Type: audio/ogg < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store < Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT < Pragma: no-cache < Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * < X-Robots-Tag: index, noarchive < ice-audio-info: ice-bitrate=192;ice-channels=2;ice-samplerate=48000 < icy-pub: 1 < icy-index-metadata: 1 < icy-logo: https://icecast.walmradio.com:8443/walm.jpg < icy-country-code: US < icy-country-subdivision-code: US-NY < icy-language-codes: en < icy-main-stream-url: https://icecast.walmradio.com:8443/walm2_opus < icy-geo-lat-long: 40.75166,-73.97538 < icy-br: 192 < icy-genre: Traditional Christian,Hymns,Orchestral,Classical Music,Choral,Christian,Christian Music,Talk Radio,Talk,Opus < icy-name: WALM 2 (Opus) < icy-description: Music of Faith < icy-url: https://walmradio.com/walm2 < Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output Warning: " to save to a file. Failure writing output to destination Failed reading the chunked-encoded stream Closing connection 0 TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, close notify (256):