Sent from my iPhone
> On 2014/12/09, at 1:38, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
>
> m3u8 isn't a stream, it's simply a small playlist file that contains one or
> more HTTP URLs, which resolve to audio files, usually MP3. In the case of
> streaming, the HTTP audio resource uses the Shoutcast format, which is
> basically just an audio stream that looks like an infinitely long MP3 file.
>
> So all you need to do is read the URL from the .m3u8 file (which is pretty
> trivial; IIRC it's just a text file containing a URL) and use something like
> NSURLConnection to read data from it and write it to a file with a ".mp3"
> extension. Since it's a stream you'll never hit EOF so you'll want to stop
> the connection after a while.
>
> If you need to write the audio into some other kind of movie file you should
> be able to feed the data received from the URL into AVFoundation. You'll just
> need to inform it that the data format is MP3.
It is not limited to MP3
Http Live Streaming uses this playlist format.
Literally just a list of URLs really. Where each one is a short clip of media
content.
The content on the other end is usually small files as parts of the whole.
The u on the end means UTF8.
The video format could vary.
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
