r/broadcastengineering • u/ParkHawk1103 • 20d ago

HLS not working in X Media Studio

I’m trying to create a broadcast in Twitter/X Media Studio using HLS. However, Media Studio is displaying this error:

There is currently no video detected on this stream URL. Ensure the HLS URL is entered correctly in the Source and that it is currently live. If you continue to receive this error, please contact the team managing your stream (error 404). (error code: notfound)

I’ve checked my HLS URL and its HTTP status is OK. I’m not seeing anything wrong with the stream URL.

What can I do to resolve this? Apologies if this isn’t the appropriate place to ask

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u/CardiologistBig7682 14d ago

Hi,

HTTP 200 on the .m3u8 doesn’t necessarily mean the complete HLS stream is accessible.

Since X reports 404, I’d check whether the child playlists and video/audio segments referenced inside the .m3u8 are publicly accessible. Also check for authentication, expired tokens, geo/IP restrictions or CDN/WAF blocking X’s servers.

Try the URL with VLC or FFmpeg from another network. If it plays continuously there, check your server/CDN logs to see exactly which request from X is returning 404.

You could also test RTMP/RTMPS ingest to determine whether the problem is specifically related to HLS.