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Encoder guidelines for HTTP ingest>HTTP ingest requirements
MSL 4.x - Encoder Guide
  • About this document
  • Live encoder compatibility testing and qualification
    • Benefits of qualification
    • Why use a qualified encoder?
    • Testing process
    • Qualification process
    • Qualified live encoders
  • Encoder guidelines for HTTP ingest
    • HTTP ingest requirements
      • Bitrate and playlist
      • DNS lookups, upload retries, and timeouts
      • Extensions and mime types
      • IDR frame alignment
      • Industry compliance
      • Marking playlists complete
      • Publishing URL format
      • PUT or POST request
      • Unique segment numbering or session ID
        • Unique segment numbering
        • Unique session ID
      • User-Agent string
      • URL configurability
      • Use Live-to-VoD
    • HTTP ingest recommendations
      • Audio encoding
      • Audio only
      • Chunked transfer encoding
      • Entire event playlist or index upload
      • HTTP digest authentication
      • Ingest acceleration
      • Logging and reporting
      • Parallel uploads
      • Security
      • Segment configurability
      • Segment numbering after restart
      • Video encoding
    • HLS requirements
      • Master playlists
      • Primary and backup workflows
      • Publishing workflow
      • Playback workflow (HLS)
      • Upload order (HLS)
    • HDS requirements
      • Alternate hostname uploads
      • Primary and backup workflows
        • Publishing workflow
        • Playback Workflow
      • PUT/POST request
      • Segment and fragment numbering
      • Upload order
      • URL formatting
        • Set-Level Manifest
        • DRM metadata
        • Media fragment file
        • Bootstrap file
        • Stream-Level manifest
    • DASH requirements
      • Alternate hostname uploads
      • Chunk encoding on uploads
      • DASH attributes
      • Don't use base URLs
      • Logging and reporting
      • Mime types
      • Primary and backup workflows
        • Publishing workflow
        • Playback workflow (DASH)
      • Posting URLs
        • mpd
        • Initialization segment
        • Media Data Segment
      • Upload order (DASH)
      • Segment configurability
    • CMAF requirements
      • What is CMAF?
      • DASH attributes
      • Master manifest
      • Primary and backup workflows
        • Publishing workflow
        • Playback workflow (CMAF)
      • Publishing URL format
      • PUT/POST request
      • Upload order (DASH)
      • Upload order (HLS)
  • Encoder guidelines for the RTMP platform
    • Requirements
      • Audio and video sequence headers
      • Authentication
      • End of stream sent before connection close
      • onMetaData
      • Packet timestamps
      • Resolve hostnames and reconnect
      • RTMP, H.264, and VP6 compliance
      • Single stream per TCP connection
      • Sync across renditions
      • User-Agent string
    • Recommendations
      • Stream lag or jump forward solution
      • Usage of B-frames
  • Qualification checklist
    • DASH qualification checklist
    • HLS qualification checklist
    • CMAF qualification checklist
    • RTMP qualification checklist
  • Encoder requirements for Akamai OTT
    • About OTT
    • Akamai OTT encoder qualification - optional and mandatory features
      • Mandatory features
        • Translate SCTE-104 to SCTE-35 in TS
        • Support SCTE-35 TS to HLS/DASH/Adobe Primetime
        • NTP synchronized
        • Support HTTP headers with 64-bit UTC time
        • Publish acquired source time stamp in the HTTP header format
        • Support HTTP chunk encoding
        • Support editable fields
      • Optional features
        • Support one-second segment duration
        • Support I-frame playlists
    • Beacon overview
      • Advantages of using beacons
    • Beacon usage
      • Configuration beacons
      • Heartbeat (system and stream) beacons
        • System heartbeat beacons
        • Stream heartbeat beacons
      • Alert beacons
        • Alert types
      • Availability alerts
      • Quality alerts
    • Beacon integration
  • Notice

HTTP ingest requirements

The following items are required for an encoder to use MSL HTTP ingest. Please ensure that your encoder meets these requirements.

Learn more
  • Bitrate and playlist
  • DNS lookups, upload retries, and timeouts
  • Extensions and mime types
  • IDR frame alignment
  • Industry compliance
  • Marking playlists complete
  • Publishing URL format
  • PUT or POST request
  • Unique segment numbering or session ID
  • User-Agent string
  • URL configurability
  • Use Live-to-VoD

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