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Apple provides HTTP Live Streaming Tools to help you set up an HTTP Live Streaming service. Media Stream Validator(mediastreamvalidator) is a tool to verify if your HLS has no compatibility issue or not. You can download it at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streaming/about_apple_s_http_live_streaming_tools |
We can use Apple’s mediastreamvalidator tool to validate our video streams. It checks that the playlist and the media segments conform to the HTTP Live Streaming specification and will report any problems it finds so we can fix them.
To check if a video stream is valid, call mediastreamvalidator with the URL of the playlist. If you run the following command, you should see something like this:To use Apple MediaStreamValidator, you can simply run as
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$ mediastreamvalidator -O validation.json \ http:///your_hls_url/sample.m3u8hlsbook.net/wp-content/examples/sintel/sintel_index.m3u8 $ hlsreport.py -o report.html validation.json |