Playing m3u8 form local storage - android

We want to play m3u8 with ts files stored locally on SD card in Android 4.0 and above devices.
I tried using video TAG inside HTML residing locally on the SD card and android native media player.
Both the codes are failing with the error. The same set of ts and m3u8 files are working fine when played from online when served from a webserver connected through http.
Can we play m3u8 using native support for files stored offline or do we need to use 3rd party libraries. I searched in internet and didn’t find article about not supporting the same.
Any help or recommendation would help my work.
Thanks a lot


Issue Solved
we used nano http server to serve m3u8 file to with all videos parts. Very simple and easy way to play m3u8 video file.

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m3u8 HLS Streaming not working in Android OS versions 6.0(M) and 5.0(L)

I am using MediaPlayer for Live steaming the Video using HLS medium.
The streaming file has extension .m3u8. The multimedia file is not able to provide streaming in Android OS versions MarshMallow and Lollipop in my case. Above OS version M the same file provides flawless streaming.
Questions that I am looking for the answers are below
Is it Hardware related issue?
Is it only OS related issue?
Why some of the m3u8 urls working fine on MediaPlayer implementation and some of not?
I am here sharing both the files the First one is working and the second one is not working.
1. Here is the First URL that working fine : https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8
One can find the internal details of the file here
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#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="stereo",LANGUAGE="en",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/en/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="stereo",LANGUAGE="dubbing",NAME="Dubbing",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/none/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="surround",LANGUAGE="en",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/surround/en/320kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="surround",LANGUAGE="dubbing",NAME="Dubbing",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/none/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Deutsch",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="de",URI="subtitles_de.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="en",URI="subtitles_en.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Espanol",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="es",URI="subtitles_es.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Français",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="fr",URI="subtitles_fr.m3u8"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=258157,CODECS="avc1.4d400d,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=422x180,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/250kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=520929,CODECS="avc1.4d4015,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=638x272,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/500kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=831270,CODECS="avc1.4d4015,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=638x272,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/800kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1144430,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=958x408,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/1100kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1558322,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1277x554,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/1500kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=4149264,CODECS="avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1921x818,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/4000kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=6214307,CODECS="avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1921x818,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/6000kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=10285391,CODECS="avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=4096x1744,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/10000kbit.m3u8
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2. The content of the NOT WORKING m3u8 file is here as I could not share the URL itself.
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#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1790800,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=1790800,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=1024x576,FRAME-RATE=29.970,SUBTITLES="subs",CLOSED-CAPTIONS=NONE
XXXXXXX/1/XXXXXXX.m3u8
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="eng",URI="XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX.m3u8"
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Any help, suggestions, feedbacks will be appreciated.

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