IETF RFC 8216
[ACTIVE]
HTTP Live Streaming
Metadata
- Publisher
- IETF
- Doc Type
- Informational
- Pages
- 60
- Abstract
- This document describes a protocol for transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 7 of this protocol.
- Publication Date
- 2017-08-01
- Status Note
- Informational
- DOI
10.17487/RFC8216- Link
- https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8216
- Author(s)
- Roger PantosWilliam May
- Keyword(s)
- HTML, Streaming
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▶ IETF RFC 8216 (2017-08-01)THIS DOC [ACTIVE] [LATEST VERSION]
Normative Reference(s)
- CEA 608-E:2008 (ANSI) [Superseded]
- CEA 708-E:2013 [Superseded]
- ISO 8601:2004 [Withdrawn]
- ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998 [Active, Reaffirmed]
- ISO/IEC 13818-3 [Active, Reaffirmed]
- ISO.13818.2007 — ISO_13818 EXTERNAL
- ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009 [Withdrawn]
- ISO.14496-12.2015 — International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 14496-12:2015, “Information Technology—Coding of Audio–Visual Objects—Part 12: ISO Base Media File Format,” 2015. EXTERNAL
- ISO.23001-7.2016 — International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 23001-7:2016, “MPEG Systems Technologies—Part 7: Common Encryption in ISO Base Media File Format Files.” Accessed: Apr. 2023. [Online]. Available https://www.iso.org/standard/68042.html EXTERNAL
- NIST FIPS 197 [Superseded]
- International Telecommunications Union, "Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services", January 2012, < http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264 >. EXTERNAL
- Advanced Television Systems Committee, "Digital Audio Compression (AC-3) (E-AC-3) Standard", ATSC Standard A/52:2010, November 2010, < http://atsc.org/ wp-content/uploads/2015/03/A52-201212-17.pdf >. EXTERNAL
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), "WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format", Draft Community Group Report, June 2017, < http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/ >. EXTERNAL
- Digital Content Protection LLC, "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System - Mapping HDCP to HDMI", February 2013, < http://www.digital-cp.com/ sites/default/files/specifications/ HDCP%20on%20HDMI%20Specification%20Rev2_2_Final1.pdf >. EXTERNAL
- American National Standard for Information Systems, "Coded Character Sets - 7-Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII)", ANSI X3.4, December 1986. EXTERNAL
- IETF RFC 2046 [Active, Amended*]
- IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 2818 [Superseded*]
- RFC2964 — RFC2964 EXTERNAL
- IETF RFC 3629 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
- IETF RFC 5646 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 5652 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 6265 [Active*]
- RFC6381 — RFC6381 EXTERNAL
- IETF RFC 7159 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 7230 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 8174 [Active*]
- SCTE.35.2014 — SCTE35 EXTERNAL
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- ISO.23000-19 — International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 23000-19, “Information Technology—Multimedia Application Format (MPEG-A)—Part 19: Common Media Application Format (CMAF) for Segmented Media.” EXTERNAL
- The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard", < http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ >. EXTERNAL
- Nullsoft, Inc., "The M3U Playlist format, originally invented for the Winamp media player", < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=M3U7amp;oldid=786631666 >. EXTERNAL
- Apple Inc., "MPEG-2 Stream Encryption Format for HTTP Live Streaming", < https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/ AudioVideo/Conceptual/HLS_Sample_Encryption/ >. EXTERNAL
- Apple Inc., "Uniform Type Identifier", < http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ general/conceptual/DevPedia-CocoaCore/ UniformTypeIdentifier.html >. EXTERNAL
- ID3.org, "The ID3 audio file data tagging format", < http://www.id3.org/Developer_Information >. EXTERNAL
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