.
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<h2 class="section"><a href="ffmpeg-protocols.html#toc-hls">3.10 hls</a></h2>

<p>Read Apple HTTP Live Streaming compliant segmented stream as
a uniform one. The M3U8 playlists describing the segments can be
remote HTTP resources or local files, accessed using the standard
file protocol.
The nested protocol is declared by specifying
&quot;+<var>proto</var>&quot; after the hls URI scheme name, where <var>proto</var>
is either &quot;file&quot; or &quot;http&quot;.
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