Timbra supports most flavours of HLS/CMAF. The following streaming providers are known to output compatible HLS:
Other HLS/CMAF streams
It’s likely that Timbra is compatible with the output of your streaming provider. We support both traditional HLS and CMAF HLS. Please contact us if you want to discuss compatibility of your streaming setup.
HLS stream requirements
- The stream needs to be live before starting captioning (finished and VOD playlists are rejected)
- The stream needs to be publicly accessible
- The stream can’t use encryption or DRM
- Plugin output only: the segment needs to have a
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tag
- HLS output only: the playlist needs to be a fixed length (DVR is not supported)
- The minimum segment size is 6 seconds, and minimum total playlist size is 18 seconds.
- The HLS stream needs to allow CORS in order to provide a preview inside CaptionHub.
Supported HLS features