Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS

HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the HLS standard in 2009, and it is the required streaming format for iOS devices.

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