Stream (m3u8 format) cannot be played on iOS devices about raspilive

[jaredpetersen]

@gongzhang

I suspect that raspi-live is working but that there's some sort of issue with how you're trying to play the video. Since you mentioned Safari and iOS, I'm assuming you're trying to do playback on another device. In that case, you can't provide localhost as an address. If you do, the browser will read your HTML and look at localhost on the machine running the browser rather than the local networking environment of the raspberry pi.

If you open up the developer tools in your browser, you should be able to see that your browser can't even download the livestream.m3u8 file at all because there's nothing serving that file on the browser machine's localhost.

Try using the IP address of the raspberry pi instead of localhost in your HTML file, e.g. http://78.16.253.91:8000/camera/livestream.m3u8.

[gongzhang]

Thank you for your quick reply 😊
Sorry for the localhost. It misleads the problem. You can assume that I have correct IP address pointing to raspi in that web page.
iOS Safari does not recognize the stream for some reason. I will debug it using browser inspector later.

[jaredpetersen]

Hmm... Okay.

Assuming the IP address is good to go, the next thing I would try is to remove the python server entirely from the equation. Safari can support playback without having the <video> tag at all by just pasting in the URL directly, e.g. http://78.16.253.91:8000/camera/livestream.m3u8.

If that doesn't work but it downloads the file correctly, please paste the contents of the m3u8 file and screenshots of anything you see in the browser inspector (console logs, network waterfall, etc.). Also share whatever log output that raspi-live gives out.

I've tested raspi-live's streaming files with Safari before but haven't had any issues. I suspect it's a network problem but could be wrong. The logs and screenshots will help make that more clear.