From 0e6a3ee4fa317f674a3e895188620aa5839cc414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:11:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: document applehttp protocol

The documentation might be extended once/if a live/store override option
will have to be provided for non-compliant segmenter.
---
 doc/protocols.texi | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi
index 29f5c90d81..5655b10180 100644
--- a/doc/protocols.texi
+++ b/doc/protocols.texi
@@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ supported protocols.
 
 A description of the currently available protocols follows.
 
+@section applehttp
+
+Read Apple HTTP Live Streaming compliant segmented stream as
+a uniform one. The M3U8 playlists describing the segments can be
+remote HTTP resources or local files, accessed using the standard
+file protocol.
+HTTP is default, specific protocol can be declared using the "+"
+specifier.
+
+@example
+applehttp://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
+applehttp+http://host/path/to/remote/resource.m3u8
+applehttp+file://path/to/local/resource.m3u8
+@end example
+
+
 @section concat
 
 Physical concatenation protocol.