
Confirm whether your operating system meets the above conditions, if not, you have to upgrade it to meet the requirement.


Now we know that HLS playback is natively supported on Windows 10, macOS 10.6 and the later, iOS 3 and the later, and Android 4.1 and the later. Why Some Browsers and Players Won't Open HLS Files Properly?įirst and foremost, to have your existing operating system supports HTTP Live Streaming. For subtitles, it only supports the WebVTT format. HLS supports a wide range of video and audio formats, including MPEG2-TS, fragmented MP4, AAC, MP3, AC3 and EAC3 format. It is commonly used to describe the HLS protocol index file. It was originally designed for the purpose of describing MP3 music. The M3U8, the Unicode version of M3U, is a computer file format with a file extension of. At the same time, the client streams the content of different bitrates according to the network conditions. When playing content delivered using HLS, the client needs to download the M3U8 file containing metadata information (such as index file, playlist or manifest file, etc.).

It works by dividing live videos or on-demand content into many pieces of small file downloads, and let the client download based on standard HTTP transactions. Not only has it become the preferred streaming media protocol on iPhone, iPad, and Safari browser, but many broadcasters also use HLS and its variant protocols for content distribution. HTTP Live Streaming, aka HLS, is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol published by Apple Inc.
