Fail to recognize start time request #EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET in m3u8.

I created m3u8 chunks with ffmpeg. I presented the m3u8 file to vlc and it worked perfectly. (Vlc fails often when the m3u8 comes from streams in the web, but it seems to work perfectly when the m3u8 chunks are created by ffmpeg.) However, if I add the request #EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET=1200 to start at 1200 seconds, it is ignored. Is this a bug or it is intentional that you do not respect this aspect of the specification. I checked and the problem is there in the master vlc 4.0 as well.

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@fcartegnie Looking at the source code it seems there is handling for EXT-X-START, so this is supposed to work, right?

Fair enough, I should have looked at the code to see why it does not work. I simply noted that it does not work in a very simple setting created with ffmpeg. I will look at the code and try to see why it does not work.

@Dominic108 This was directed at @fcartegnie not you, IIRC he is the one who wrote most of this code and probably can clarify if it is implemented or not and what the issue might be.

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