[Bug 27509] Add mappings for HLS

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27509

--- Comment #2 from JP Abello <Jp.abello@nielsen.com> ---
Hello Silvia, Bob, Cyril, Eric and Giuseppe,

I hope you are all doing well.

Did you see the Jan 29 announcement about Microsoft adding native support for
HLS and DASH in Internet Explorer on Windows 10?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/01/29/simplified-adaptive-video-streaming-announcing-support-for-hls-and-dash-in-windows-10.aspx

In the light of this new development, it might make more sense now to add HLS
along with DASH in http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-sourcing-inband-tracks

Silvia had also proposed back in November to move DASH and HLS into their own
dedicated section in the document:

> On 11/2/14, 2:45 AM, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For the record: I do have some reservations about adding DASH and HLS
> support, since browsers do not typically support these formats
> natively. Actually, HLS is supported in Safari, so it has some excuse,
> but DASH is only supported via Media Source Extensions. I have been
> worried about that a bit.
> 
> I think these facts probably need to be explained better in the
> document. This is particularly important, since different target
> audiences are addressed with the different formats: DASH and HLS
> address Web Developers (+Safari), MPEG-4, WebM and Ogg address Browser
> developers, and MPEG-2 addresses Web-enabled  set-top box vendors
> (these are still UA devs). So, DASH and HLS are bascially in a league
> of their own and should probably be moved to an appendix or so.
> 
> Silvia.

Thanks,

JP

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