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In this case a stream will be captured by source URI, and after publishing to server the stream will be played as HLS. Note that URI should be encoded, all the characters except latin letters and digits must be replaced with character code.

Since build 5.2.1679 a stream may be played by source URI as HLS ABR

http://wcs:8082/vod-live%3A%2F%2Ffile.mp4-HLS-ABR-STREAM/vod-live%3A%2F%2Ffile.mp4-HLS-ABR-STREAM.m3u8

When HLS subscriber connects to CDN Edge, if a stream with certain name or URI is already published to some Origin server, the stream from CDN will be played as HLS for this subscriber. If there is no stream with such name or URI in CDN, Edge will try to capture stream locally to play as HLS.

HLS segments automatic cut for stream published

Any of streams published via WebRTC, RTMP, MPEG-TS or captured from RTSP or RTMP source using REST API may be cut automatically to HLS segments. This may be enabled with the following parameter

hls_auto_start=true

HLS playback authentication using REST hook

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