grafov / hlsprobe

Utility to probe Apple HLS streams.

HLS Probe Utility

Utility to detect errors in HTTP Live Streams (Apple HLS). It may be used regular monitoring tool and mediaserver stress testing. Features are:

• parse M3U8-playlists (variant and single-bitrate playlists supported)
• detect bad playlists format (empty playlists, incorrect chunk durations)
• check HTTP response statuses and webserver timeouts

Planned features:

• probe chunks with mediainfo utility (from libav)

This utility can't be used for HLS playback.

This Python version are maintained but development moved to version on Go language: https://github.com/grafov/hlsprobe2

Install

First install dependencies:

pip install m3u8

pip install PyYAML

Get repo, cd to it and copy hlsproberc-sample to ~/.hlsproberc. Edit it for your needs.

./hlsprobe

Similar projects

• https://code.google.com/p/hls-player
• https://github.com/brookemckim/hlspider

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