# Help with finding why HLS m3u8 does not play

**URL:** <https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660>\
**Category:** Archived\
**Tags:** roku-developer-program\
**Created:** [February 13, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660 "2015-02-13T05:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![krackers123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@krackers123](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/krackers123)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660/1 "2015-02-13T05:59:40Z")

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I have the following m3u8 file I am trying to play on roku:

[http://199.217.118.49:1935/wsnewrelease/playlist.m3u8](http://199.217.118.49:1935/wsnewrelease/playlist.m3u8)

I have the XML set up as follows:

```auto

<media>
		<streamFormat>hls</streamFormat>
		<streamQuality>SD</streamQuality>
		<streamBitrate>1500</streamBitrate>
		<streamUrl>http://199.217.118.49:1935/playlist.m3u8</streamUrl>
</media>

```

However, when I try to play it does not seem to work. Playing in VLC does not work either, but playing in safari (on osx) or ios seems to work fine. Can anyone provide any insight as to why this does not work, perhaps by analyzing the m3u8 file and structure?

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**Author:** ![renojim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@renojim](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/renojim)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660/2 "2015-02-13T06:04:06Z")

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I’m unable to download that file and when I do “curl -I” on the URL it returns “403 Forbidden”.

-JT

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**Author:** ![krackers123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@krackers123](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/krackers123)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660/3 "2015-02-13T06:18:56Z")

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Oh got it. Should have noticed that before…

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**Author:** ![drobinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@drobinson](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/drobinson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/help-with-finding-why-hls-m3u8-does-not-play/5660/4 "2015-02-23T22:55:39Z")

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Did you get this to work?

I tried playing the your video and code in my test channel xml and it didn’t work (possible I have problems with code elsewhere).