m3u playlist support?

[xnoreq]

Using version 0.3.1 Windows x86-64 release.

Playing a .m3u playlist file causes this error:
Playing: path\to\test.m3u
Failed to recognize file format.

Same with m3u8. Can we have those formats supported?
A simple (non-extended) m3u file only contains a path to a file / URL per line.

Btw, what are the supported playlist formats anyway? Couldn't find that info anywhere.

[ghost]

m3u should work. Can you pos the file?

[xnoreq]

Nothing special at all:

D:\Music\Artist\2010 Album\01 Track.mp3
D:\Music\Artist\2010 Album\02 Track.mp3

Same error if I change line endings to LF from CR+LF, or change the encoding from ANSI to UTF-8.

[xnoreq]

mpv can open the playlist if I run it with the --playlist option.

Why is this option needed? Can't it detect that a .m3u file is a playlist?

[divVerent]

This is a security measure to prevent mpv from accessing remote urls or
local files without being told so - e.g. if you associate *.mpg with mpv in
your browser. Could do stuff like reset your router then.

Personally I would at least want to allow referring to other files in the
same directory - given it allows this for mkv too.

[ghost]

What divVerent said. Playlists can do several unsafe things: poke in your local network, poke in your local filesystem (including accessing device files), and 3rd it's not sure whether all protocol types are safe.

mpv can open the playlist if I run it with the --playlist option.

In this case, the m3u file doesn't have the correct header (the first line is not #EXTM3U), so the only way to distinguish this file from any other is by file extension, which mpv normally tries to avoid to do. So it's simply not detected. The --playlist option activates a fallback to open unrecognized files as a text list of files.

Personally I would at least want to allow referring to other files in the
same directory - given it allows this for mkv too.

Might be possible - not sure.