Test your HLS (M3U8), DASH stream urls with our faster HTML5 player
Paste a stream URL above and hit Play // Press play above to load a stream
This player shows what's actually happening underneath: active bitrate, resolution, buffer health, and dropped frames, the same signals engineers check on Akamai's own reference player. No signup, no install. When you're ready to go live, run your stream on Livepush's Akamai-powered CDN instead of an enterprise-only contract.
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An HLS player reads a live streaming manifest, a .m3u8 or .mpd file, and plays back the video segments it points to. Every phone, browser, and Smart TV that watches a live stream is running some version of this player under the hood.
Testing a stream before you point real viewers at it catches the problems that are hard to see from an encoder's dashboard: a wrong bitrate ladder, a manifest that expired, or a CDN edge that's dropping requests under load. It's the same workflow engineers use on Akamai's own reference player, paste a manifest, watch the resolution ladder, confirm the CDN serves it without buffering, before trusting it with an audience.
No downloads, no browser extensions, no account. Paste a public stream URL and it plays right here in your browser, using the same Video.js and adaptive streaming engine that powers production players across the web.
?src= query parameter // Paste and play, no setup https://live.example.com/stream/index.m3u8 https://cdn.example.com/channel/manifest.mpd https://cdn.example.com/clip.mp4
Most free HLS players just play the video. This one also shows you what's happening underneath: the active bitrate, resolution, buffer health, and dropped frames, the same panel-style diagnostics you'd find on Akamai's own hlsjs test player.
The player reads every rendition listed in the manifest and shows you resolution and bitrate for each one, with the currently active rendition highlighted. It's the fastest way to confirm your adaptive bitrate setup is actually producing the renditions you configured.
This player tests any stream, from any CDN. But when you're ready to host your own live stream, Livepush delivers it over Akamai's global edge network, the same infrastructure behind BBC, NBCUniversal, and Al Jazeera, packaged into self-serve plans instead of an enterprise sales contract.
A stream that plays here will play the same way in Video.js, hls.js, JW Player, Bitmovin, ExoPlayer, or AVPlayer, because it's standards-compliant HLS and DASH under the hood. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in.
From solo developers to broadcast engineering teams, if a stream needs checking before it goes live, it gets tested here first.
Confirm a manifest is well-formed and plays correctly before wiring the URL into a custom player, app, or SDK.
Debug buffering, dropped frames, or bitrate issues by isolating whether the problem is the stream, the CDN, or the player.
Compare playback and stream health across Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, or Livepush before committing to one provider.
Learn how HLS and DASH actually work by watching bitrate, buffer, and resolution change in real time.
Reproduce a viewer's playback complaint by testing the exact stream URL they were watching.
Sanity-check a client's live stream or CDN configuration before launch day, without installing anything.
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