Utility to detect errors in HTTP Live Streams (Apple HLS). It may be used regular monitoring tool and mediaserver stress testing. Features are:

• parse M3U8-playlists (variant and single-bitrate playlists supported)
• detect bad playlists format (empty playlists, incorrect chunk durations)
• check HTTP response statuses and webserver timeouts

Planned features:

• probe chunks with mediainfo utility (from libav)

This utility can't be used for HLS playback.

This Python version are maintained but development moved to version on Go language: https://github.com/grafov/hlsprobe2

First install dependencies:

pip install m3u8

pip install PyYAML

Get repo, cd to it and copy hlsproberc-sample to ~/.hlsproberc. Edit it for your needs.

./hlsprobe

• https://code.google.com/p/hls-player
• https://github.com/brookemckim/hlspider