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Vimeo has released the live video stream service. But I cannot find a live stream url in Video settings in Vimeo. I use HLS link to show normal Vimeo stream videos in AVPlayer and that works. Where can I find the url for live stream video on Vimeo? Is it possible to show live stream video on iOS app or must I embed webView to show Vimeo live video?

flame3
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  • Possible duplicate of [How to play video with AVPlayerViewController (AVKit) in Swift](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25932570/how-to-play-video-with-avplayerviewcontroller-avkit-in-swift) – Alex Ioja-Yang Feb 06 '19 at 09:35
  • This is not a duplication. I asked how to play live video from video. That's different from your link. – flame3 Feb 06 '19 at 12:24
  • https://github.com/satishVekariya/LXVimeoKit – SPatel May 10 '19 at 10:03

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Simple answer: for now, Vimeo Live can only be used with the Vimeo embedded player. Vimeo does not offer an HLS or other external link/streaming link for Live events.

Those direct file links are only available for uploaded complete videos.

Tommy Penner
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    Do you mean we are restricted to the iFrame player and would have to use some sort of webview or is there a way to somehow display this player inside of a `UIView`? Thank you. – M3nd3z Jun 18 '20 at 09:16
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I know it's a long time ago since the question was published, but maybe someone can benefit from this.

Vimeo has a tutorial on their site https://developer.vimeo.com/api/live/playback. How to get the HLS link to the live video.

One major drawback is, to qualify for the Vimeo Live API you must be a Vimeo Enterprise customer or a Vimeo development partner.

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