HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition
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Informational R. Pantos, Ed.
Internet-Draft Apple Inc.
Obsoletes: 8216 (if approved) October 29, 2020
Intended status: Informational
Expires: May 2, 2021
HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition
draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08
Abstract
This document obsoletes RFC 8216. It describes a protocol for
transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the
data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server
(sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes
version 10 of this protocol.
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Pantos Expires May 2, 2021 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition October 2020
This Informational Internet Draft is submitted as an RFC Editor
Contribution and/or non-IETF Document (not as a Contribution, IETF
Contribution, nor IETF Document) in accordance with BCP 78 and BCP
79.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to HTTP Live Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Media Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Supported Media Segment Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1.1. MPEG-2 Transport Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.2. Fragmented MPEG-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.3. Packed Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.4. WebVTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.5. IMSC Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2. Partial Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1. Definition of a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2. Attribute Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3. Variable Substitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4. Playlist Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4.1. Basic Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.1.1. EXTM3U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.1.2. EXT-X-VERSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.2. Media or Master Playlist Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.2.1. EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.2.2. EXT-X-START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.2.3. EXT-X-DEFINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4.3. Media Playlist Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4.3.1. EXT-X-TARGETDURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4.3.2. EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4.3.3. EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.3.4. EXT-X-ENDLIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.3.5. EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.3.6. EXT-X-I-FRAMES-ONLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4.3.7. EXT-X-PART-INF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4.3.8. EXT-X-SERVER-CONTROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4.4. Media Segment Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.4.4.1. EXTINF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.4.4.2. EXT-X-BYTERANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.4.4.3. EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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