[Hls-interest] Survey: signaling HLS client capability

[Roger Pantos <[e-mail]>]

With the increasing number of optional features in HLS (such as low latency, content steering, interstitial support, different codecs, etc.), there is a desire in some quarters to present different streams to different devices, beyond the regular variant stream selection performed on the client.

We're considering some kind of signal of client capability, such as a query parameter on the Master Playlist URL, to support this kind of server decision. But before we go too far I'd like to understand if it would actually be of practical benefit, and what universe of use cases it makes sense to support. So:

- Do you think you would use this kind of thing? For what? 

- If you are already doing something along these lines, perhaps driven by the User-Agent string or something else, what requirement is driving that? 

(Alternately, if you think that this would only make things worse, let us know why!)

Feel free to respond here, or to send your response privately to [e-mail].


thanks,

Roger Pantos
Apple Inc.