Question

I’m trying to use encryption with the mediafilesegmenter and although I think I’ve got everything set up correctly, the videos are refusing to play.

I’m segmenting the files with the following command:

mediafilesegmenter -O -K http://www.mydomain.com/ipad/crypt.key -f /Users/pls/Sites/videos/212/h /Users/pls/Sites/processing/212-h.m4v

The file at http://www.mydomain.com/ipad/crypt.key is a 16-byte key file created by mediafilesegmenter using the command:

mediafilesegmenter -O -K http://www.mydomain.com/ipad/crypt.key -k crypt.key -g -f /Users/pls/Sites/videos/212/h /Users/pls/Sites/processing/212-h.m4v

Once segmented I’m uploading to the webserver and trying to play the streams by pointing to the main .m3u8 file but I’m not getting anything – it’s finding the file but then not playing. If anyone has any thoughts or better yet a working example of segmenting a file with encryption with the commands used that would be great.

Answer 1

Found the answer – I needed to update mediafilesegmenter to the latest version. After doing so, the command

mediafilesegmenter -K http://www.mydomain.com/ipad/crypt.key -k crypt.key -f /path/to/output /path/to/input/file

worked like a charm, albeit with warnings against using the same public key for multiple files.