Overview

Media streams can carry additional metadata in the form of tags in the playlist/manifest file, and this file indicates the placement of advertising. You can specify custom tag names and be notified when certain tags appear in the manifest file.

HLS content tags

TVSDK provides out-of-the-box support for specific #EXT advertising tags. Your application can use custom tags to enhance the advertising workflow or to support blackout scenarios. To support advanced workflows, TVSDK allows you to specify and subscribe to additional tags in the manifest. You can be notified when these tags appear in the manifest file.

Using custom HLS tags

Here is an example of a customized VOD asset:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:7

#EXT-X-ASSET:AID=10

#EXTINF:9.9766,
seg1.ts

#EXTINF:9.9766,
seg2.ts

#EXTINF:9.9766,
seg3.ts

#EXT-X-AD:DURATION=10
#EXTINF:9.9766,
seg4.ts

#EXTINF:9.9766,
seg5.ts

#EXT-X-ENDLIST

Your application can set up the following scenarios:

• A notification when #EXT-X-ASSET tags, or any other set of custom tag names to which you have subscribed, exist in the file.
• Insert ads when an #EXT-X-AD tag, or any other custom tag name, is found in the stream.

You can subscribe to any of the following tags as custom tags:

• EXT-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME
• EXT-X-START
• EXT-X-AD
• EXT-X-CUE
• EXT-X-ENDLIST

You will be notified with a TimedMetadata event during the parsing of manifest files.

There are some advertising tags, such as EXT-X-CUE, to which you are already subscribed. These ad tags are also used by the default opportunity generator. You can specify which ad tags are used by the default opportunity generator by setting the adTags property.

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