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How to play HLS/DASH content

In order to play HLS/DASH content you need to manually add the format of the video file as well as the video- and audio-streams of the video in the launch template.

{
  "type": "VIDEO",
  "url": "https://accurate-player-static.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/Sintel/dash/sintel.mpd",
  "container": {
    "format": "dash",
    "videoStreams": [
      {
        "frameRateNumerator": 24,
        "frameRateDenominator": 1
      }
    ],
    "audioStreams": [
      {
        "channels": 2
      },
      {
        "channels": 2
      }
    ]
  },
  ...
}
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Format​

The format specifies the format of the video container.

FormatValue
HLShls
DASHdash

Video streams​

The video streams needs to be configured with frameRateNumerator and frameRateDenominator, resulting in the video stream frame rate.

Audio streams​

The audio streams needs to be configured with channels, describing how many audio channels each stream contains, for example "channels": 2 for a regular stereo sound.