NetStream.Play.Failed with VideoTexture on iOS in Adobe Air App - ios

I'm trying to get a video to play in an Away3d texture on iOS. It's fine on Android and Windows. The video will play in Starling on iOS so I know it's not the video.
Here is how I add the video:
sphereGeometry = new SphereGeometry(5000, 64, 48);
panoTextureMaterial = new TextureMaterial(panoTexture2DBase, false, false, false);
panoVideoMesh = new Mesh(sphereGeometry, panoTextureMaterial);
panoVideoMesh.scaleX *= -1;
panoVideoMesh.rotate(Vector3D.Y_AXIS,-90);
scene.addChild(panoVideoMesh);
panoTexture2DBase.player.play();
view.render();
On iOS I get this from the netstats when I try and load it as a video texture.
NetStream.Play.Start
NetStream.Play.Failed
NetStream.Play.Stop
I'm using the Away3d NativeVideoTexture class
texture = context.createVideoTexture();
texture.attachNetStream(_player.ns);
I think it might be do with MP4 encoding, and I've had a good look around and can't find anything that works, currently I'm trying this in FFMEG
-vcodec libx264 -profile:v main -level 3.1 -crf 23 -s 1024:768 -movflags +faststart
But what I set doesn't seem to make a lot of difference.
Any idea why my video is failing to load as a VideoTexture on iOS?

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I have a live RTSP stream that i have managed to transcode to HLS via VLC. Now it works perfect on Android and on desktop browsers (via flash).
But not on Apple (i can test it on iPad and desktop Safari on my virtual machine). I can see the player but when i press the 'play' button all i see is a black rectangle inside the player. On desktop Safari there is also a text 'Loading...' near the play/pause button and nothing else happens.
My HTML:
<video id="player" controls style="width:100%; height:100%">
<source src="http://178.79.164.114/playlist.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL">
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The command for vlc:
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And an example of the playlist file:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:179
#EXTINF:9.60,
http://178.79.164.114/seg-00000179.ts
#EXTINF:9.60,
http://178.79.164.114/seg-00000180.ts
#EXTINF:9.60,
http://178.79.164.114/seg-00000181.ts
#EXTINF:9.61,
http://178.79.164.114/seg-00000182.ts
#EXTINF:9.59,
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Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://178.79.164.114/playlist.m3u8':
Duration: N/A, start: 3995.330722, bitrate: N/A
Program 0
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
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UPDATE
Now i'm experimenting with variant playlist but it changes nothing.
The player might expect muxed video and audio so add a silent audio track.
The Apple HLS documentation says:
The media segment files are normally produced by the stream segmenter, based on input from the encoder, and consist of a series of .ts files containing segments of an MPEG-2 Transport Stream carrying H.264 video and AAC, MP3, or AC-3 audio
Support for audio-only streams is mentioned in Technical Note TN2224 and the 7th revision of the protocol introduced support for alternate renditions (unmuxed streams) but this is done with EXT-X-MEDIA tags in a master playlist controlling the playback (yours is a media playlist).

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If I've missed any more vital code, just ask and I'll see what I can do.
Edit:
Xcode 4.6.3
iOS 6
Testing on an iPad 2
Edit #2:
Works perfectly on the simulator, just not on the device.
After trying to piece together a sample app to upload here, I found that the w3 version of Big Buck Bunny worked fine. This indicates it was an encoding problem and not an objective C issue.
I've re-encoded the same file I was trying to play before but now with the baseline profile with the following command:
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I found this code on here through this Stack Overflow post.
Primarily for low-cost applications that require additional data loss robustness, this profile is used in some videoconferencing and mobile applications. This profile includes all features that are supported in the Constrained Baseline Profile, plus three additional features that can be used for loss robustness (or for other purposes such as low-delay multi-point video stream compositing). The importance of this profile has faded somewhat since the definition of the Constrained Baseline Profile in 2009. All Constrained Baseline Profile bitstreams are also considered to be Baseline Profile bitstreams, as these two profiles share the same profile identifier code value.
-From Wikipedia
I realise this may not help anyone here looking for Objective-C help but if it saves just one person the 5 hours I spent today trying to get this working, this will be worth it.

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