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Itay Kinnrot
Itay Kinnrot

Reputation: 721

HLS is not playing on samsung TV but play on emulator

I'm trying to play Apple HLS stream on samsung TV: https://devimages.apple.com.edgekey.net/streaming/examples/bipbop_4x3/bipbop_4x3_variant.m3u8

Model code:UE40F5500 Version : 5.2481

Any idea why?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3247

Answers (1)

Ivan Solntsev
Ivan Solntsev

Reputation: 2120

Playlist contains audio-only track. Usually SmartTV's not support this and refuse to play such playlist or throw error during track switching.

If you look at playlist:

$curl https://devimages.apple.com.edgekey.net/streaming/examples/bipbop_4x3/bipbop_4x3_variant.m3u8

You will see last track without video:

#EXTM3U


#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=232370,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d4015"
gear1/prog_index.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=649879,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401e"
gear2/prog_index.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=991714,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401e"
gear3/prog_index.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1927833,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401f"
gear4/prog_index.m3u8

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=41457,CODECS="mp4a.40.2"
gear0/prog_index.m3u8

Such track is required by Apple to allow playback of audio over mobile internet, so you can't use playlists from iOS on SmartTV.

Upvotes: 1

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