Downloading and playing offline HLS Content - iOS 10

Question

Since iOS 10, Apple has provided the support for downloading HLS (m3u8) video for offline viewing.

My question is: Is it necessary that we can only download HLS when

Answer 1

The only way you can do this is to set up an HTTP server to serve the files locally after you've downloaded them.

The Live playlist uses a sliding-window. You need to periodically reload it after target-duration time and download only the new segments as they appear in the list (they will be removed at a later time).

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