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       HLS-19: Re-Asses Suitability of FFMPEGs HLS functionality

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Issue Type: Task 
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Issue Information
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Priority: Major					Status:      Open
Resolution:  Unresolved
Project: HLS Stream Creator (HLS)


Reported By: btasker					
Assigned To: btasker

Components: 
	- Transcoding 


Targeted for fix in version: 
	- VNEXT


Time Estimate: 60 minutes
Time Logged:   0 minutes


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Issue Description
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When HLS-5 came in, I took a cursory look at ffmpeg's HLS format to see whether it was
suitable.

At the time, it was a fairly new feature and wasn't available in the version of ffmpeg
available in Ubuntu repos. Time has passed though, so that's probably no longer the case.

Need to look at building a version of the script which uses the HLS format instead of
segment_list to see whether switching will impact any existing or planned features.

The primary benefit over the existing implementation is that it will prevent TS
Discontinuity errors between the segments (as segment_list resets the counter to 0 at each
segment - IMO that's incorrect behaviour, but it's been the case for quite a while).

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Issue Relations
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	- relates to HLS-5: PR#6 FFMPEG will be called only once
	- FFMpeg bug on Discontinuity Errors (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2828)

	- FFMPeg HLS Format Documentation (https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#hls-1)



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Activity
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2019-11-23 12:09:21              
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btasker added 'VNEXT' to Fix Version
	
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2019-11-23 12:09:21              
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btasker removed '1.0' from Fix Version