Video player requirements

All video players must provide capabilities that the manifest server relies on to insert ads and to enable ad tracking.

To use the Primetime ad insertion API, a video player must satisfy the following:

• Can track playhead position as content is played back.

• Can request tracking URLs at the times specified.

• Runs on a device platform that supports HLS v3 or later, including:

  • PTS discontinuities as marked by EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY tags
  • EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE
  • EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME
  • EXT-X-START

• Runs on a platform that supports HTTP redirects and parsing JSON.

• Web-based players must run on platforms that supports CORS.