The full form of m3u8 is Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator

M3U (MP3 URL or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and is often used in downloads from a website, for emailing, and for listening to Internet radio.

Although originally designed for audio files, such as MP3, it is commonly used to point media players to audio and video sources, including online sources. M3U was originally developed by Fraunhofer for use with their Winplay3 software, but numerous media players and software applications now support the format.

The meaning of .M3U8 is Utf-8 M3u Playlist File and other meanings are located at the bottom which take place within File Extensions terminology and .M3U8 has 1 different meaning. All meanings which belong to .M3U8 abbreviation are take part only within File Extensions terminology and other meanings are not found. If you want to see other meanings, please click the .M3U8 meaning link. Thus, you will be directed to page which indicates all meanings of .M3U8.
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For example, one M3U8 file may give you references to online files for an internet radio station. Another might be created on your computer to build a playlist for your own personal music or a series of videos.

An M3U8 file can use absolute paths, relative paths, and URLs to refer to specific media files and/or entire folders of media files. Other text information in an M3U8 file might be comments that describe the contents.