[Bug 594035] Add HTTP Live Streaming playback support

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594035
  GStreamer | don't know | git

--- Comment #49 from Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> 2011-03-29 19:10:55 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #47)
> (In reply to comment #44)
> > (In reply to comment #28)
> > > I have fixed the the typefind patch, which was adding a '\0' for the string
> > > comparison.
> > > 
> > > http://gitorious.org/ylatuya-gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/commit/ff9de9e4d41f544f93df193d05e5de5bb39e5b25
> > @Sebastian: Can you review this one so it gets before the next freeze of
> > gst-plugins-base?
> 
> Ok, that's not good. Is there nothing else to distinguish a m3u8 live streaming
> playlist from a normal m3u playlist? #EXTM3U is also used in normal (extended)
> m3u playlists that additionally provide the duration and title information and
> these playlists are very common.

Right, the draft defines new tags[1] so these ones should be checked instead. I
would first check that the playlist starts with #EXTM3U as it's done now and
than check that #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION (normal playlist) or if #EXT-X-STREAM-INF
(for variant playlists) are in the playlist

[1]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-01#section-3.1

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