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2. If HLS agent for the stream is stopped by REST query /hls/terminate, and there are active HLS subscribers, this agent will be restarted. In this case, active HLS subscribers must reconnect to the stream.

HLS ABR support

For a streams with video track (video only or audio+video) WCS supports HLS ABR in CDN (a qualities are encoded on a dedicated Transcoder node) and on a single node.

Warning

HLS ABR does not work for audio only streams, WCS will return 404 Not found in response to HLS ABR manifest request for a such stream!

Legacy HLS ABR implementation in builds 5.2.484 - 5.2.582

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12. Audio only HLS stream in ts container is playing with a notable clicks in Safari browser

Symptoms: Audio only HLS stream clicks while playing in native HTML5 player in Safari browser

Solution: since build 5.2.1690, use m4s container for audio only streams