So iPhone is just a shortcut name I used to get access to the site / f4m manifest (quicktest).If you want to access the direct link into browser then it dosen't work "Error 403 Access denied" using the normal browser user agent like in that case.
Read this..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403
On the other hand you can follow the requests of the original site you can run in browser which plays the segments to see what it did request.
Code:
http://prepublish.f.qaotic.net/b04/ngrp:MITREHD-10002_all/media_u1puceem3_b346000.abst/Seg1-Frag42453
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GET /b04/ngrp:MITREHD-10002_all/media_u1puceem3_b346000.abst/Seg1-Frag42453 HTTP/1.1
Host: prepublish.f.qaotic.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: x
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Referer: http://vmf.edge-apps.net/res/player/universal/StrobeMediaPlayback_test.swf
Connection: keep-alive
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Above you see the infos by browser access (also same for direct f4m file).So to get access on file you need to use the Referer Paramter to prevent 403 error code to allow the access.If you want to use it livestreamer tool then it has to look so...
Code:
livestreamer --http-header "Referer=http://vmf.edge-apps.net/res/player/universal/StrobeMediaPlayback_test.swf" "hds://http://prepublish.f.qaotic.net/b04/ngrp:MITREHD-10002_all/manifest.f4m" best
...to get it work.You can also shortcut the referer link if you want.Just use Firefox tools itself to find the infos or use extern tools / debugger etc.
greetz