[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] commit:?stream_filter/httplive.c:?HTTP Live Streaming (Jean-Paul Saman )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:16:20 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:11:46AM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
>> Even if the VLC stream output could do that (it can't due to limitations
>> of the mux/access_out interface), there would still be no benefit of
>> Apple HTTP over plain HTTP.
> I am speaking about VLC as a client, not sout.

Of course, if someone reuses the same M3U8 tricks with a different payload
file format, then VLC should support it in due time. But I don't think we
should _promote_ this, nor any other OSS project. In my opinion, M3U8 is
just a hack around limitations of the TS to enable (imprecise) seeking, and
if you will, bandwidth negotiation.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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