Pull ingest gets no signal despite a valid SRT URL

💻 Environment/Context

  • Live
  • Livestream setup
  • Pull live ingest receiver
  • SRT

 

❓ Issue/Question

  • I'm testing the stream setup for the upcoming season. I scheduled two recordings receiving signal from our broadcaster through an SRT link, but although the recording was scheduled to start, I'm still not getting any image.

 

👌 Resolution/Answer

  • Test the pull URL in a player to check whether any signal arrives.
  • If the player gets no signal either, check whether the SRT source is actually encrypted — a passphrase in the pull URL is rejected when the source stream is unencrypted.
  • Remove the ?passphrase=... parameter from the pull URL.
  • Alternatively, to keep encryption, ask the source to enable AES with that passphrase on the encoder so the existing URL works as-is.
  • Recreate the live schedule with the corrected URL.

 

🥚 Cause

  • An SRT connection fails when the encryption settings on the pull URL and the source do not match. Sending a passphrase to an unencrypted source rejects the handshake, so no feed arrives even though the source is reachable.

 

🔖 Notes