Overview: HLS delivery
HLS delivery connects playlists with the media segments and timeline information they describe.
A playlist describes which resources belong to a presentation and how they are organized; the segments carry the media. A player uses both as the stream advances or changes representation. These pages explain the HLS relationship before a missing segment or stale playlist is treated as an encoding problem.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
HTTP Live Streaming describes a media presentation through playlists that direct a player to successive media intervals and, when offered, alternative representations.HLS playlists
HLS playlists describe representation choices or ordered media intervals, with tags carrying duration, initialization, publication and continuity information.HLS media segments
HLS media segments carry timed media intervals whose packaging, initialization and decoding dependencies determine how a player can enter and assemble the stream.