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There is no formal specification for the M3U format; it is a de facto standard.. An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. The file is saved with the "m3u" filename extension if the text is encoded in the local system's default non-Unicode encoding (e.g., a Windows codepage), or with the "m3u8" extension if the text is UTF-8 encoded.
PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. It is typically used by media players for streaming media over the Internet, but may also be used for playing local media. For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—for immediate or future use.
Segmenter: divides the stream into fragments of equal length. It also creates an index file that contains references of the fragmented files, saved as .m3u8. Distributor Formed by a standard web server, accepts requests from clients and delivers all the resources (.m3u8 playlist file and .ts segment files) needed for streaming. Client
AIMPPL – AIMP Playlist format; ASX – Advanced Stream Redirector; RAM – Real Audio Metafile For RealAudio files only. XPL – HDi playlist; XSPF – XML Shareable Playlist Format; ZPL – Groove Music Playlist format from Microsoft; M3U – Multimedia playlist file; PLS – Multimedia playlist, originally developed for use with the museArc
XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF), pronounced spiff, [1] is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation. XSPF is a file format for sharing the kind of playlist that can be played on a personal computer or portable device. In the same way that any user on any computer can open any Web page, XSPF is ...
Some containers only support a restricted set of video formats: DMF only supports MPEG-4 Visual ASP with DivX profiles.; EVO only supports MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-1 Video, MPEG-2 Video and VC-1.
A network packet is the basic unit of data in a transport stream, and a transport stream is merely a sequence of packets. Each packet starts with a sync byte and a header, that may be followed with optional additional headers; the rest of the packet consists of payload.
A media resource locator (MRL) is a URI used to uniquely identify and locate a multimedia resource. It is used by the VideoLAN and Xine media players, as well as the Java Media Framework (JMF) API.