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[Aliza Pointon]

M3UMP3 URL[1][2] or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator[3] in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and is often used in downloads from a website, for emailing, and for listening to Internet radio.

Although originally designed for audio files, such as MP3, it is commonly used to point media players to audio and video sources, including online sources. M3U was originally developed by Fraunhofer for use with their Winplay3 software,[4] but numerous media players and software applications now support the format.

An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. The file is saved with the "m3u" filename extension if the text is encoded in the local system's default non-Unicode encoding (e.g., a Windows codepage), or with the "m3u8" extension if the text is UTF-8 encoded.[9]

Apple used the extended M3U format as a base for their HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)[12] which was documented in an Independent Submission Stream RFC in 2017 as RFC 8216.[13] Therein, a master playlist references segment playlists which usually contain URLs for short parts of the media stream. Some tags only apply to the former type and some only to the latter type of playlist, but they all begin with #EXT-X-.

The Unicode version of M3U is M3U8, which uses UTF-8-encoded characters. M3U8 files are the basis for the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format originally developed by Apple to stream video and radio to iOS devices, and which is now a popular format for adaptive streaming in general.

The current proposal for the HLS playlist format acknowledges two media types which it treats as equivalent: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl and audio/mpegurl.[14] Likewise, these are the two types recommended for HLS use by Microsoft.[17]

For non-HLS applications, no media types were standardized or registered with the IANA, but a number of media types are nonetheless associated with the historical and ongoing use of the M3U and M3U8 formats for general playlists:

These types, plus application/vnd.apple.mpegurl and application/vnd.apple.mpegurl.audio, are supported for HLS applications by (for example) Microsoft's Windows 10[17] and Internet Explorer 9,[18] and LG's WebOS.[19]

This is an example of an extended M3U file on the Windows platform. Sample.mp3 and Example.ogg are the media files. 123 and 321 are the lengths in seconds.[20] A length of -1 or 0 may be used when the media file is a streaming file, as there is no actual, predefined length value. The value after the length is the title to be shown, which is generally the same as the location of the file which is on the second line. On the macOS and Linux platforms, Unix paths are used.

This example shows how to create an m3u file linking to a specified directory (for example, a flash drive, or CD-ROM). The m3u file should contain only one string: the path to the directory. After starting, the media player will play all contents of the directory:

Here is another example, using relative format. The M3U file is placed in the same directory as the music, and directories must be preserved when moving the playlist to another device if subdirectories are used. This method is more flexible, as it does not rely on the file path staying the same.

I removed a bunch of chars and replaced them with "[random characters]". The URL is invalid because it only contains a file name; the domain name is missing. Also it points to m3u8 file. I don't think it makes any sense.

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 iPhone and iPad', I am a bit stuck.

And this page does not work in Chrome, Safari, on my iPhone. The html5 video tag examples on w3schools work fine on my computer, and the official Apple overview mentioned above gives an HTML example very similar to my page. Nevertheless, my video player is completely unresponsive when I visit my own .m3u8 page.

Where VIDEOURL is the webpage where the video player resides and VIDEOURL is the stream URL (the m3u8 url).

I need a way to forward the webpage URL as well as the stream URL to the playing system in Kodi.

UPDATE for completeness and future visits:

I have asked at the KODI forum and got referred to this documentation page.

Here the solution is found:

In the strm file just add the following to the stream URL end:

referer=webpage-url

where you enter the actual URL to the webpage itself as the referer.

This will add the correct referer argument to the call to the source and it works!

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[NULL @ 0000000002f07060] Packet header is not contained in global extradata, corrupted stream or invalid MP4/AVCC bitstream Failed to open bitstream filter h264_mp4toannexb for stream 0 with codec copy: I

Your command is not quite correct. The output format is not rawvideo and you don't need the bitstream filter h264_mp4toannexb which is used when you want to convert the h264 contained in an mp4 to the Annex B format used by MPEG-TS for example. What you want to use instead is the aac_adtstoasc for the AAC streams.

Aergistal's answer works, but I found that converting to mp4 can make some m3u8 videos broken. If you are stuck with this problem, try to convert them to mkv, and convert them to mp4 later.

Here are the files; Z05_USEng.m3u8 and Z05_JPJpn.m3u8.I can use the command ffmpeg -i x -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 file.mp4, with x being the URL to the m3u8, to download the MP4 data to a file. I can also use VLC to play the stream. What I don't understand is how I can do these two things when all the files contain is

Hello, I was wondering if Http Live Streaming (HLS), that is, a Media File with URL ending with .m3u8 extension, are currently supported by the Unreal Engine. I tested UE4.11 and 4.12 and I cannot get it to work.

m3u8 works fine on vanilla Android (example), but the Media Framework doesnt seem to like it.

Having not lived in the US for the majority of my life, I often needed to rely on illegal streams to watch America sports games. The experience on these streams is, to say the least, extremely poor. Most have some sort of crypto miner running in the background, as well as dozens of ads covering the stream. I wholeheartedly support ads for free content but unfortunately the sorts of ads that show up on these streams are terrible at best and malicious at worst.

Live streams start at the input, which is usually either a live event or a static file that is being streamed. For live events, the server requires a media encoder, which can be off-the-shelf hardware, and a way to break the encoded media into segments and save them as files. These files are then categorized into a playlist file, usually with a file extension .m3u8.

The client software begins by fetching the index file, using a URL that identifies the stream. The index file, in turn, specifies the location of the available media files, decryption keys, and any alternate streams available. For the selected stream, the client downloads each available media file in sequence. Each file contains a consecutive segment of the stream. Once it has a sufficient amount of data downloaded, the client begins presenting the reassembled stream to the user. A playlist, example below, is just a collection of these ts links.

This process continues until the client encounters the EXT-X-ENDLIST tag in the index file. If no EXT-X-ENDLIST tag is present, the index file is part of an ongoing broadcast. During ongoing broadcasts, the client loads a new version of the index file periodically. The client looks for new media files and encryption keys in the updated index and adds these URLs to its queue.

I experimented with it for a bit, and found the fastest way to do so would be to go to the Network tab and just filter by m3u8. At that point you can just copy and paste the URL into any program that plays m3u8 and watch the stream (VLC and QuickTime both work).

This works perfectly well for unobfuscated and simple streams. However, after trying a few streams like this, they stopped working. The URL and parameters would be exactly right, but VLC or any other player would not work.

I wanted to make a tool that would quickly extract the stream and start playing it, without needing to manually type in any headers, options, or cookies. Unfortunately, Chrome does not provide easy direct access to your network requests. Only devtools extensions have access to the chrome.devtools API. When you do have access to that API, though, you can export any network request in the HTTP Archive Format, which contains everything you need to exactly recreate the request.

Unfortunately this library also refused to set unsafe headers. This time it was easy to fix though - I could just fork it, and remove the code that checks for those headers! Thus, node-xhr2-unsafe was born (published here and on npm).

The streamers had done something much more clever. They were actually authenticating all these streams with valid keys. They did this by setting up a proxy server to the official keyservers and wrapping the requests with the valid keys.

I guess the deciding factor for me to continue with the Channels DVR is the custom M3u8 and EPG which is appealing. Unfortunately, i have tried to get this to work (based on the discussions on the site) but i have not been successful. I hope some one can "dumb down" the way to add a custom channel but equally important the EPG XMLtv.

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