application/vnd.apple.mpegurl and application/x-mpegURL are HTTP headers assigned to m3u8 files. M3U8 files are a type of M3U file used for streaming video over HTTP. They carry the same beginning header of EXTM3U.
Example URL: https://video-dev.github.io/streams/x36xhzz/x36xhzz.m3u8
File Contents:
#EXTM3U #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2149280,CODECS="mp4a.40.2,avc1.64001f",RESOLUTION=1280x720,NAME="720" url_0/193039199_mp4_h264_aac_hd_7.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=246440,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.42000d",RESOLUTION=320x184,NAME="240" url_2/193039199_mp4_h264_aac_ld_7.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=460560,CODECS="mp4a.40.5,avc1.420016",RESOLUTION=512x288,NAME="380" url_4/193039199_mp4_h264_aac_7.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=836280,CODECS="mp4a.40.2,avc1.64001f",RESOLUTION=848x480,NAME="480" url_6/193039199_mp4_h264_aac_hq_7.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=6221600,CODECS="mp4a.40.2,avc1.640028",RESOLUTION=1920x1080,NAME="1080" url_8/193039199_mp4_h264_aac_fhd_7.m3u8
Example 2: https://playertest.longtailvideo.com/adaptive/aviion/manifest.m3u8
Contents:
#EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:1 #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10 #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:136803485 #EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=NONE #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2013-05-08T17:40:50Z #EXTINF:10, segment0.ts #EXTINF:10, segment1.ts #EXTINF:10, segment2.ts #EXTINF:10, segment3.ts #EXTINF:10, segment4.ts #EXT-X-ENDLIST
Example 3: https://storage.googleapis.com/shaka-demo-assets/angel-one-widevine-hls/hls.m3u8
#EXTM3U ## Generated with https://github.com/google/shaka-packager version 379e9de0e8-debug #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="stream_2",LANGUAGE="fr",URI="playlist_a-fra-0128k-aac.mp4.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="stream_0",LANGUAGE="de",URI="playlist_a-deu-0128k-aac.mp4.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="stream_4",LANGUAGE="es",URI="playlist_a-spa-0128k-aac.mp4.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="stream_1",LANGUAGE="en",URI="playlist_a-eng-0128k-aac.mp4.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="audio",NAME="stream_3",LANGUAGE="it",URI="playlist_a-ita-0128k-aac.mp4.m3u8" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:AUDIO="audio",CODECS="avc1.42c01e,mp4a.40.2",BANDWIDTH=576134 playlist_v-0144p-0100k-libx264.mp4.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:AUDIO="audio",CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",BANDWIDTH=3144440 playlist_v-0480p-1000k-libx264.mp4.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:AUDIO="audio",CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",BANDWIDTH=4179906 playlist_v-0576p-1400k-libx264.mp4.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:AUDIO="audio",CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",BANDWIDTH=1285026 playlist_v-0240p-0400k-libx264.mp4.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:AUDIO="audio",CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",BANDWIDTH=2227246 playlist_v-0360p-0750k-libx264.mp4.m3u8