Add on-the-fly processing for m3u8 content with streaming support, improving HLS playlist handling. Introduce retry mechanism for HTTP streaming requests and configurable timeout via transport settings. Refactor and optimize URL parsing, error handling, and response generation for better robustness and maintainability.
Added LiveTVExtractor for extracting M3U8 and MPD streams. Enhanced error handling by introducing ExtractorError and updated existing extractors to use this new error class. Removed support for unused request headers and integrated caching for extractor results.
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