how to create HLS and encrypted HLS

Hello Edward,

thank you for the question!

Sadly, there are no free tools to do this.

For HLS itself, there would be more services. For example, Bunny Stream is great and cheap, however it does not allow for encryption to be used outside of their own player. We are currently working on advanced support for Bunny Streams and will have further info on it soon.

But, if you care about having the best download protection possible, then you would want encrypted HLS. The best option, besides AWS, is coconut.co. We have incorporated the encoding and encryption services from Coconut in our FV Player Coconut add-on: https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-player-coconut

FV Player Coconut is a free-add on which helps you set up everything you need for encoding and encrypting (encryption is only available for FV Player Pro users) your videos via a user-friendly wizard. It combines the hosting from DigitalOcean Spaces, distribution via Bunny CDN and encoding via Coconut. It means, that encoding your videos takes just a couple of clicks directly in your WordPress. It is not only much less complicated than using the popular services from Amazon, but also more cost-efficient.

Let me know, if you have more questions.

Thanks,
Maria