[gstreamer-bugs] [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 #8 from Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> 2010-10-27 14:34:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I retook Marc-Andre's work and the plugin is now working now pretty well. I
> still need to clean-up the code a little bit, handle some corner cases and
> improve the bitrate switch decision algorithm, but I hope it will be in a good
> shape to be in -bad by the end of the week.
> I still don't know how to integrate it properly with uridecodebin and I was
> wondering if it's a good idea to create a new 'hls' protocol to have something
> like:
> uridecodebin2 uri=hls://my-stream.net/main.m3u8

I don't like that. I'd much rather the content of the m3u8 list was detected
properly as an HLS playlist (some keywords must be in the playlist [1]), and
ignored as just a text file otherwise.

[1]: This is how shared-mime-info does it:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/freedesktop.org.xml.in#n3358

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