MPMoviePlayerController and local m3u8 files

I'm trying to load an m3u8 file that's saved to the local filesystem, but the MPMoviePlayerController refuses to play it, citing "m3u8 is not a supported media type". How开发者_如何转开发ever, the same m3u8 file plays perfectly fine when I'm accessing it on a remote media server. Is there any workaround that can be used to play local m3u8 files?

Well, according the RFC they lay out for m3u8 streaming, it can only be done over HTTP. Personally, I think it's kind of silly to require HTTP when the files can be readily accessed through the file protocol, but them's the breaks. I just used a simple HTTP server to serve the m3u8 file and the subsequent ts files.