[FFmpeg-devel] HTTP redirect 307 of an specified HLS url is not stored after HTTP connexion

[Timothy Gu]

On Jun 25, 2013 7:36 AM, "Sidney N'Guessan" <sidney.nguessan at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>  If there is a HTTP redirect 307 on a specified url, the redirect is
>  followed during the http connexion but is not stored.
>
>  In my compagny, TV streaming is done through HLS and load balancing. For
a
>  channel, the stream URL is forward to a temporary redirect.
>
>  Ex:
>  wget http://our-server/CH1/CH1.m3u8
>  --2013-06-25 16:00:59--  http://our-server/CH1/CH1.m3u8
>  Connecting to our-server:80... connected.
>  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 307 Temporary Redirect
>  Location: http://our-
>  server:80/CH1/kac3trwi5qcqy5iiartgtbfizjqet2ii/0000150/GlobalHlsManifest.
> m3u8
>  [following]
>  --2013-06-25 16:00:59--  http://our-
>
 server/CH1/kac3trwi5qcqy5iiartgtbfizjqet2ii/0000150/GlobalHlsManifest.m3u8
>  Connecting to our-server:80... connected.
>  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>
>
>  In our case, ffplay does not play the m3u8 because the URL sent to the
HLS
>  stack is the same as give in parameter but not the real URL (redirected)
>  and the result is 404.
>
>  /usr/bin/ffplay http://our-server/CH1/CH1.m3u8
>  avplay version 0.8.5-4:0.8.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2003-2012
the
>  Libav developers
>    built on Jan 24 2013 18:01:36 with gcc 4.6.3

This is not real ffmpeg, but a broken fork libav, with many user-reported
unfixed bugs. Please test REAL ffmpeg git master before submitting patches.
http://ffmpeg.org

For further reading, please see
http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

Timothy