Sample HLS stream for testing — free, CC0, hotlinkable

HLS, Apple's HTTP Live Streaming, delivers video as a playlist of short segments that a player fetches one by one. It cannot be tested with a single file, so these fixtures form a complete stream.

hls/720p-10s/index.m3u8 is a VOD media playlist listing five segments of about two seconds each, with relative segment URIs and a closing #EXT-X-ENDLIST tag. The segments sit beside it, from hls/720p-10s/seg-000.ts to hls/720p-10s/seg-004.ts, each carrying H.264 video and AAC audio in an MPEG-2 transport stream. Because the URIs are relative, the stream works from any host that serves the same layout, including a local mirror.

Point a player such as hls.js, Safari or ExoPlayer at the playlist URL to test playback, seeking and segment fetching. Every segment is served with open CORS, so a player on another origin can load it. Related formats: TS and MP4.

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/index.m3u8

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/index.m3u8" controls></video>

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-000.ts

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-000.ts" controls></video>

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-001.ts

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-001.ts" controls></video>

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-002.ts

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-002.ts" controls></video>

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-003.ts

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-003.ts" controls></video>

curl -O https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-004.ts

<video src="https://loremfile.dev/hls/720p-10s/seg-004.ts" controls></video>