I-frame playlists requirement for Apple TV

Hello,

We have live streams without I frame playlist. But as per the section 6.1, it is listed as a MUST have item.

Our screen does not have any trickplay or scrub option as we treat it purely live and aslo our live streams do not store the segments in server for more than a minute or so, do we still have to implement the iframes only mode for Live? or is it only for VOD.


I-frame playlists ( EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF ) MUST be provided to support scrubbing and scanning UI.


https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/documentation/General/Reference/HLSAuthoringSpec/Requirements.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016596-CH2-SW1

Accepted Reply

Hi Dvyz,


This is most important for VOD to support the trick-play scrubbing feature of AVPlayerViewController.


For live that does not allow for scrubbing, it's not necessary.

Replies

Hi Dvyz,


This is most important for VOD to support the trick-play scrubbing feature of AVPlayerViewController.


For live that does not allow for scrubbing, it's not necessary.