for RTMP - RTMP URL,
for HLS - URL of the M3U8 media playlist,
for HDS - URL of the F4M manifest,
- for DASH - URL of the MPD manifest or
- base URL representing the media
- if MPD manifest is parsed from
- a string,
+ for DASH
+ - HTTP URL to plain file media (in case of
+ unfragmented media)
+ - URL of the MPD manifest or base URL
+ representing the media if MPD manifest
+ is parsed froma string (in case of
+ fragmented media)
for MSS - URL of the ISM manifest.
* manifest_url
The URL of the manifest file in case of
bandwidth = int_or_none(representation_attrib.get('bandwidth'))
f = {
'format_id': '%s-%s' % (mpd_id, representation_id) if mpd_id else representation_id,
- # NB: mpd_url may be empty when MPD manifest is parsed from a string
- 'url': mpd_url or base_url,
'manifest_url': mpd_url,
'ext': mimetype2ext(mime_type),
'width': int_or_none(representation_attrib.get('width')),
fragment['duration'] = segment_duration
fragments.append(fragment)
representation_ms_info['fragments'] = fragments
- # NB: MPD manifest may contain direct URLs to unfragmented media.
- # No fragments key is present in this case.
+ # If there is a fragments key available then we correctly recognized fragmented media.
+ # Otherwise we will assume unfragmented media with direct access. Technically, such
+ # assumption is not necessarily correct since we may simply have no support for
+ # some forms of fragmented media renditions yet, but for now we'll use this fallback.
if 'fragments' in representation_ms_info:
f.update({
+ # NB: mpd_url may be empty when MPD manifest is parsed from a string
+ 'url': mpd_url or base_url,
'fragment_base_url': base_url,
'fragments': [],
'protocol': 'http_dash_segments',
f['url'] = initialization_url
f['fragments'].append({location_key(initialization_url): initialization_url})
f['fragments'].extend(representation_ms_info['fragments'])
+ else:
+ # Assuming direct URL to unfragmented media.
+ f['url'] = base_url
+
# According to [1, 5.3.5.2, Table 7, page 35] @id of Representation
# is not necessarily unique within a Period thus formats with
# the same `format_id` are quite possible. There are numerous examples