Never treat a manifest container as an audio codec or a direct play target

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Model/Dlna/StreamBuilder.cs b/MediaBrowser.Model/Dlna/StreamBuilder.cs
index ab8d5dd5b2..4799ed5410 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Model/Dlna/StreamBuilder.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Model/Dlna/StreamBuilder.cs
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Model.Dlna
         internal const TranscodeReason VideoReasons = TranscodeReason.VideoCodecNotSupported | VideoCodecReasons;
         internal const TranscodeReason DirectStreamReasons = AudioReasons | TranscodeReason.ContainerNotSupported | TranscodeReason.VideoCodecTagNotSupported;
 
+        private const string ManifestContainers = "hls,applehttp,dash";
+
         private readonly ILogger _logger;
         private readonly ITranscoderSupport _transcoderSupport;
         private static readonly string[] _supportedHlsVideoCodecs = ["h264", "hevc", "vp9", "av1"];
@@ -718,6 +720,14 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Model.Dlna
                 isEligibleForDirectPlay = false;
             }
 
+            // A manifest is not a byte stream, so it cannot be handed to the client as one. The variant
+            // and segment URIs inside it are relative to the origin and do not resolve against the
+            // Jellyfin url the client would fetch it from.
+            if (ContainerHelper.ContainsContainer(ManifestContainers, item.Container))
+            {
+                isEligibleForDirectPlay = false;
+            }
+
             if (bitrateLimitExceeded)
             {
                 transcodeReasons = TranscodeReason.ContainerBitrateExceedsLimit;