I'm implement http live streaming video from my webserver to iPhone. Will I get rejected for bandwidth?

Question

Apache webserver setup

added:

AddType application/x-mpegURL .m3u8
AddType video/MP2T .ts

to "httpd.conf" file.

Movie file preparation

• I have 3 movie files (9mb - 25mb each).
• Used QuickTime to convert movies into iPhone format.
• Used mediafilesegmenter to convert .m4v into 10-second segments of .ts files, with an accompanying .m3u8 file.
• Placed these in a folder on webserver.

iPhone App implementation

• Created UIWebView whose URL points to http://71.190.235.29/~yujean/stream.html
• Simulator accesses the site and streams the movie-files just fine.

Question

• Will I still get rejected by apple for bandwidth issues over the 3G and/or Edge network?
• Do I need to somehow check which network the end-user is on first? And then provide a different movie accordingly? If so, how do I do that ...?

Thank you in advance,

Eugene

Answer 1

We were rejected when we first submitted our mp3 streamer to the app store for excessive bandwidth use. Then we hobbled the app to limit its downloads to 4.5 meg in 5 min, which was accepted by Apple.

You can review that thread for more info on the issue.

Answer 2

To answer your second bullet-point first, the SDK does that all for you. Determining what quality to stream is not the concern of the developer.

To answer your first bullet-point, I haven't submitted my Live Streaming app so I don't know for sure, but I believe you will be rejected if you don't have a 64k stream. To be sure, check out Requirements for Apps, which is as definitive a list of requirements that you could probably get.