Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

The PlayHLS plugin enables Apple HLS stream to be played. HLS means HTTP Live streaming.
The plugin can be installed using LMS and this 3rd party repository. http://bpaplugins.googlecode.com/svn...po-playhls.xml

Apple HLS stream are normal URL with http:// and ending with m3u8 . The audio can be encoded with AAC, MP3 and AC-3. When trying to play non AAC URLs with this plugin it may be necessary to disable a File Type setting.

The plugin relies on the 3rd party application ffmpeg to handle the HLS stream. The version of ffmpeg is important - it is not clear but version after 0.8 seem to be OK.

Before installing the plugin - check that there is a build of ffmpeg available for your system. On many Ubuntu / Debian system there is a compatible fork of ffmpeg called avconv as part of the libavconv-tools package.

BBC Test URLs

outside UK try this URL: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...io_fourfm.m3u8
inside UK this one: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...io_fourfm.m3u8

Other m3u8 URLs
http://hls1.addictradio.net/addictal.../playlist.m3u8