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authorLuca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>2011-03-09 10:11:53 +0100
committerLuca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>2011-03-13 16:34:58 +0100
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doc: document applehttp protocol
The documentation might be extended once/if a live/store override option will have to be provided for non-compliant segmenter.
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A description of the currently available protocols follows.
+@section applehttp
+
+Read Apple HTTP Live Streaming compliant segmented stream as
+a uniform one. The M3U8 playlists describing the segments can be
+remote HTTP resources or local files, accessed using the standard
+file protocol.
+HTTP is default, specific protocol can be declared using the "+"
+specifier.
+
+@example
+applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
+applehttp+http://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
+applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
+@end example
+
+
@section concat
Physical concatenation protocol.