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Prepare Your Content Sources for SSAI

Serverside.ai​ supports HLS and DASH. We follow all standards and specifications for the best stream and user experience. It is strongly recommended to follow the standards for source stream content creation.

Basic Requirements

The manifest must satisfy the following requirements:

• Manifests must be accessible on the public internet via the origin (PULL).

• The endpoint/origin must be accessible without any authentication method. If

  authentication is required please refer to Origin - CDN Access section and talk to your Account Manager for custom configurations.

• The origin must deliver the stream (manifest, submanifest and segments) via HTTPS (HTTP is supported as well, but not recommended).

• Source (HLS and DASH segments) can be hosted in your own infrastructure and be CDN (Content Delivery Network like Akamai) enabled.

• The ssai service will only request the manifest file and the player will request the content segments from the origin/CDN.

Configure your packager/origin server to produce manifests for HLS or DASH that are compatible with our best-practice requirements.

• Codec and profile (resolution, profile, fps, bitrate, etc.) should be consistent for each content in a given channel (Live)/playlist (VoD).

• The GOP size, also known as keyframe interval or keyframe rate must be at 1.92 sec. to ensure the best compatibility and aligned audio and video segments.

• For LIVE the ad marker must be present as SCTE35 inline marker keeping as information the CUE-Out and duration of the break.

• Ensure, that the source origin/server set the HTTP Access-Control Header as shown:

  • Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

  • Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: *

  • Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *

  • Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *