Http Live Streaming
Emby supports the Http Live Streaming protocol, also known as HLS.
The url is:
- /Videos/{Id}/master.m3u8
The required paramaters are:
- Id (in path)
- MediaSourceId
- DeviceId
For a complete list of parameters, see the built-in documentation.
All of the optional parameters can be viewed using the swagger documentation.
- AudioCodec
- AudioBitrate
- MaxAudioChannels
- AudioSampleRate
- VideoCodec
- VideoBitrate
- MaxWidth
- MaxHeight
- Profile (h264 profile)
- Level
- AudioStreamIndex
- SubtitleStreamIndex (if burning into the video)
After playback is complete, it is necessary to inform the server to stop any related HLS transcoding. This is accomplished via an HTTP POST to:
/Videos/ActiveEncodings?DeviceId=xxx
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