Re: Issue 180632 in chromium: Support streaming of .m3u8 and .m3u playlist formats

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Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: renganat...@chromium.org
Labels: -Area-MediaPlayer Area-UI

Comment #1 on issue 180632 by joshwood...@chromium.org: Support streaming
of .m3u8 and .m3u playlist formats
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180632

Moved to: Issue chromium:180632

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Updates:
Cc: sche...@chromium.org dalecur...@chromium.org jtli...@chromium.org

Comment #3 on issue 180632 by renganat...@chromium.org: Support streaming

of .m3u8 and .m3u playlist formats
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180632

+scherkus, dalecurtis, jtlinden

# Thoughts
* .m3u and .m3u8 files are text files containing list of audio files to
play in sequence.
* So, our goal should be to consume this, recognize this in FileBrowser and
then play the audio files using the native/chrome media player.

# Questions and concerns
* Can we gracefully not play an unsupported audio file today
(container/codec)? Scenario - .m3u file contains .mp3, .aac and .wma for
example.
* Do we support a list of audio files that we can play?

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Comment #4 on issue 180632 by dalecur...@chromium.org: Support streaming

of .m3u8 and .m3u playlist formats
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180632

What does gracefully mean in this case? The media element will issue an
error event if the file is not supported. It's up to the application
translating the .m3u file to handle.

Currently we don't support any kind of playlists (though MediaSource might
have something which could be coopted to do this, +acolwell would know
more). The general reason is that playlists represent lists of local
files, so what does that mean on the web? Plus this functionality is
easily added in JavaScript using the existing <audio> tag.