m3u8

Generate and parse m3u8 playlists for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  m3u8:
    github: akiicat/m3u8

Usage

require "m3u8"

module App
  include M3U8
end

Document

Generate

playlist = Playlist.new
playlist.items << SegmentItem.new(duration: 10.991, segment: "test_01.ts")
playlist.to_s

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXTINF:10.991,
test_01.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST

Parse

file = File.read "spec/playlists/master.m3u8"
playlist = Playlist.parse(file)
playlist.master? # => true

Development

Supported Playlist Tags

Basic Tags

• EXTM3U
• EXT-X-VERSION

media segment tags

• EXTINF
• EXT-X-BYTERANGE
• EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
• EXT-X-KEY
• EXT-X-MAP
• EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME
• EXT-X-DATERANGE

Media Playlist Tags

• EXT-X-TARGETDURATION
• EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE
• EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY-SEQUENCE
• EXT-X-ENDLIST
• EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE
• EXT-X-I-FRAMES-ONLY
• EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE (was removed in protocol version 7)

Master Playlist Tags

• EXT-X-MEDIA
• EXT-X-STREAM-INF
• EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF
• EXT-X-SESSION-DATA
• EXT-X-SESSION-KEY

Media or Master Playlist Tags

• EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS
• EXT-X-START

Experimental Tags

• EXT-X-CUE-OUT
• EXT-X-CUE-OUT-CONT
• EXT-X-CUE-IN
• EXT-X-CUE-SPAN
• EXT-OATCLS-SCTE35

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/akiicat/m3u8/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Akiicat Akiicat - creator, maintainer