HLS Playlist (M3U8)
An HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) media playlist in UTF-8 M3U8 — #EXT-X-VERSION, target duration, four timed .ts segments, and #EXT-X-ENDLIST — for testing HLS parsers and adaptive-streaming players.
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
#EXTINF:9.009,
segment0.ts
#EXTINF:9.009,
segment1.ts
#EXTINF:9.009,
segment2.ts
#EXTINF:6.500,
segment3.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
Specifications
- Format
- HLS media playlist (M3U8)
- Type
- VOD
- Segments
- 4
- Target Duration
- 10
What is a .m3u8 file?
M3U8 (.m3u8) is a UTF-8 M3U playlist, most importantly the backbone of HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). An HLS media playlist lists timed media segments with #EXTINF tags and directives like #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION, and a master playlist points to alternate bitrate renditions.
How to use this file
Use an example .m3u8 file to test HLS parsers and players, segment and directive extraction, and adaptive-streaming tooling, or as a plain UTF-8 M3U playlist.
How to use this file for testing
“HLS Playlist (M3U8)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Playlist & feed parsing, Editor testing. RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed syndication, an OPML subscription list, and M3U / HLS M3U8 media playlists — for testing feed readers, podcast apps, and media players.
Documented properties for this file: HLS media playlist (M3U8) · VOD. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Data fixtures document their exact quirks — delimiters, encodings, null handling, schema, and row counts — in the spec table. Point your parser or importer at the file and assert it handles the documented edge cases; clean and deliberately-messy siblings make before/after diffs straightforward.
Code examples
# manifests resolve their own segments, so pass the URL, not a local copy
ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,width,height stream.m3u8
ffplay stream.m3u8Related files
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