How to test a stream

You can tell kodi to select inputstream.adaptive for playing your multi-bitrate streams by using kodi-specific properties in a .strm file (M3U playlist) (https://kodi.wiki/view/Internet_video_and_audio_streams). This can be useful for example to check whether the stream is executed correctly without the use of add-ons.

Basically you have to create a text file with .strm extension, each property is added with the prefix #KODIPROP: before the link, the contents should be similar to these examples:

MPD example:

#KODIPROP:inputstream=inputstream.adaptive
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.manifest_type=mpd
https://the/url/to/file.mpd

HLS example:

#KODIPROP:inputstream=inputstream.adaptive
#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.manifest_type=hls
https://the/url/to/file.m3u8

We suggest reading the Integration page to see all available configuration properties.

Another way to test streams, is to use some online players such as:

• https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/latest/samples/dash-if-reference-player/index.html
• http://players.akamai.com/players/dashjs
• https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/
• http://ampdemo.azureedge.net/ams_samplestreams.html
• http://ftp.itec.aau.at/datasets/DASHDataset2014/
• https://dash.itec.aau.at/dash-dataset/
• https://demo.unified-streaming.com/k8s/features/stable/#!/mpd

some of them may include sample streams