HDS (HTTP dynamic streaming)

To enable streaming in HDS format, add the /media=hds/ parameter to the link. The link will return an xml manifest to the .f4m file.

Various options are available::

• /media=hds/ - segment size is 10 seconds, without keyframe alignment
• /media=hds2/ - segment size is 2 seconds, without keyframe alignment
• /media=hds5/ - segment size is 5 seconds, without keyframe alignment
• /media=hdsA/ - average segment size is 10 seconds, keyframe alignment enabled.

The actual segment size will vary, if there are more than ten seconds between keyframes - there may be empty segments.

Example:

http://video.ahcdn.com/key=sYQ7f-eRrPKBIbP05Tac0Q/media=hdsA/output.mp4