[foms] HLS and HLS patents

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Hi John,

it's indeed Dave who I've contacted. He's at an MPEG meeting right now, too,
so it's good timing to ask about the MPEG version of HTTP adaptive streaming
- about IP issues and about why it's so complex etc. But the simpler m3u8
format alone would be nice to be allowed to extend.

Silvia.


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:26 PM, John Luther <johnluther at webmproject.org>wrote:

> David Singer (their multimedia standards guy, singer at apple.com) is
> someone at people at Apple who might be helpful.
>
> --JL
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Zaheer Merali <zaheermerali at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Jeroen Wijering
> >> <jeroen at longtailvideo.com> wrote:
> >> > That would be very helpful!
> >> >
> >> > The big issue I see with M3U8 is that it requires chunks to be
> transport
> >> > streams. I presume this is not an open format?
> >>
> >> m3u8 is just a playlist file format. Nothing stops you putting other
> >> files in there and the demo I did of the prototype of live webm
> >> chunked streaming at foms had m3u8 files with webm chunks.
> >
> > Yeah, I don't thinks a technical problem to use m3u8 - chunks will just
> be
> > resources.
> > Silvia.
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