How to play m3u8 playlist in all PC browsers?

Question

By default m3u8 files can be played in Mac Safari browser, but not in any other desktop browsers. What needs to be done to play them in all browsers, both supporting HTML5 a

Answer 1

I don't exactly understand what the deal is with .m3u8 playlists... but I don't particularly like them.. That said, this seems to think it does what you want... github / etianen / html5media

HTML5 video and audio tags make embedding media into documents as easy as embedding an image. All it takes is a single or tag. HTML5 allows you to embed video and audio into your document...

All you have to do is embed a javascript in the of your HTML doc, and some sort of magic, or lack thereof... does the rest..

I was able to play .m3u8 movies, streaming from a Wowza server in desktop browsers via a native html5 embed, like...

I have NOT, however, yet been able to get them to go "fullscreen" via native HTML controls... but I'm looking into it..