How to create byte-range m3u8 playlist for HLS?

Question

Apple gives an example of support for byte-range segments in m3u8 files for HLS

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:11
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-VERSION:4
#EXTINF         


        

Answer 1

There is -hls_flags as a ffmpeg option. (https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html)

Following command generates single ts file which is segmented by byte range feature(supported from HLS version 4) in m3u8 index file.

$ ffmpeg -i sample.mp3 -hls_time 20 -hls_flags single_file out.m3u8