We're experimenting with a stream that has a large (10 minutes) clear portion in front of the protected section w/Fairplay. We're noticing that AVPlayer/Safari trigger calls to fetch the license key even while it's playing the clear part, and once we provide the key, playback fails with: name = AVPlayerItemFailedToPlayToEndTimeNotification, object = Optional(<AVPlayerItem: 0x281ff2800> I/NMU [No ID]), userInfo = Optional([AnyHashable("AVPlayerItemFailedToPlayToEndTimeErrorKey"): Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12894 "(null)"]) - name : "AVPlayerItemFailedToPlayToEndTimeNotification" - object : <AVPlayerItem: 0x281ff2800> I/NMU [No ID] ▿ userInfo : 1 element ▿ 0 : 2 elements ▿ key : AnyHashable("AVPlayerItemFailedToPlayToEndTimeErrorKey") - value : "AVPlayerItemFailedToPlayToEndTimeErrorKey" - value : Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12894 "(null)" It seems like AVPlayer is trying to decrypt the clear portion of the stream...and I'm wondering if it's because we've set up our manifest incorrectly. Here it is: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:8 #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:20 #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0 #EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD #EXT-X-MAP:URI="clear-asset.mp4",BYTERANGE="885@0" #EXT-X-DEFINE:NAME="path0",VALUE="clear-asset.mp4" #EXTINF:9.98458, #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:81088@885 {$path0} #EXTINF:19.96916, #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:159892@81973 {$path0} #EXTINF:19.96916, #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:160245@241865 {$path0} #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY #EXT-X-MAP:URI="secure-asset.mp4",BYTERANGE="788@0" #EXT-X-DEFINE:NAME="path1",VALUE="secure-asset.mp4" #EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=SAMPLE-AES,URI="skd://guid",KEYFORMAT="com.apple.streamingkeydelivery",KEYFORMATVERSIONS="1" #EXTINF:19.96916, #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:159928@5196150 {$path1} #EXT-X-ENDLIST

Dear Apple Engineers, First of all, thank you for this wonderful and very necessary native solution. Question: Is it possible to use this API when processing HLS? Thank you.