HLS stream not working on Apple devices

Question

I have a live RTSP stream that i have managed to transcode to HLS via VLC. Now it works perfect on Android and on desktop browsers (via flash).

But not on Apple (i c

Answer 1

The player might expect muxed video and audio so add a silent audio track.

The Apple HLS documentation says:

The media segment files are normally produced by the stream segmenter, based on input from the encoder, and consist of a series of .ts files containing segments of an MPEG-2 Transport Stream carrying H.264 video and AAC, MP3, or AC-3 audio

Support for audio-only streams is mentioned in Technical Note TN2224 and the 7th revision of the protocol introduced support for alternate renditions (unmuxed streams) but this is done with EXT-X-MEDIA tags in a master playlist controlling the playback (yours is a media playlist).