The Unicode version of "m3u" is "m3u8", which uses UTF-8 Unicode characters.
"m3u" and "m3u8" files are the basis for the HTTP Live Streaming format used by Apple to stream video to iOS devices. More can be found on WiKi.
Questions tagged [m3u8]
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Playing m3u8 Files with HTML Video Tag
I am trying to use HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to stream video to my computers and my iPhone. After reading through the Apple 'HTTP Live Streaming Overview' as well as 'Best Practices for Creating and Deploying HTTP Live Streaming Media for the…
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How to download .m3u8 in once time
I have a .m3u8 file on remote host, with contain fixed numbers of chunk .ts file name, and not…
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how to fix Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; when using ffmpeg
When I use ffmpeg to convert m3u8 to mp4, I get some warning,
ffmpeg -i xx.m3u8 -c copy demo.mp4
warning is
Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 3277744, current: 3276712; changing to 3277745. This may result in incorrect timestamps…
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How to download and decrypt HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) videos in iOS?
I want to download M3U8 file chunks (HLS) and store that video (after decrypting it) for later viewing. I have made a demo to play M3U8 file but I want to download video data for later view.
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Choose download resolution in m3u8 list with ffmpeg
I'm trying to download video from a m3u8 playlist using ffmpeg but I do not know how to choose the resolution to download. Currently the command is downloading the highest version
the command I am using is:
/home/user/bin/ffmpeg -user_agent…
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Mp4 to HLS using ffmpeg
I'm trying to convert a local .mp4 video to HLS using ffmpeg in an iOS app. I have integrated the ffmpeg wrapper using pods and generated all the segmented .ts files and the m3u8 file, but some of the .ts file segments are not listed in the .m3u8…
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Exoplayer playing m3u8 files Android
After trying multiple ways of playing m3u8 files using videoview and mediaplayer I decided to give up. Everytime i play the m3u8 file I only hear the voice.(please dont write urls from stack overflow answering my question. I' ve red them all )
Been…
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How to play html5 video play m3U8 on mobile and desktop?
I have HLS m3u8 that plays well on IOS and Android with html5
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Can I download all segments of a m3u8 file as one mp4 file using web ( no ffmpeg )
Is it possible to download all m3u8 segments in one file using javascript or php
I search for this but couldn't find anything;
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How does #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE tag work in HLS m3u8 file
I'm inspecting about #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE tag in m3u8 file of HLS.
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-23#section-4.3.3.3)
Does somebody can explain the working way of it?
For example, let's suppose that…
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GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in
I hope that someone can help with this problem, been searching for a solution for the past 2 days.
To describe the problem in short: I'm trying to make a simple qt5.7 application that will stream an m3u8 (using Qt Creator (community). But when I try…
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How can I find out the current TS segment during a HLS(m3u8) playback in iOS?
An HLS (m3u8) file references mpeg-ts files. During its playback in iOS' AVPlayer, how can i determine the currently playing mpeg-ts URI?
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PlatformException(VideoError, Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error, null, null)
**HI I am trying to play a live news video in my flutter app it is .m3u8 format but get above error. Using all of the updated dependencies. I want to play live news in my flutter app. I have the url you can also try it.
URL:…
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linux: m3u8: how to manually download and create an mp4 from segments listed in .m3u8
I have an .m3u8 url i.e http://example.com/test.m3u8
I can download it by ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -y -loglevel verbose -i "http://example.com/test.m3u8" -c copy -f mpegts test.mp4
But i am trying to do this manually:
I tried the following:
1)…
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