Hi,

I've been testing FFMPEG's HLS fragmented MP4 options with some M4A audio files.

I've noticed that if I ask ffmpeg to fragment an 11 minute file vs a 10 hour 
file, the byte ranges are different, even if the channel count/sampling 
rate/bit rate and codec are the same.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:6
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXT-X-MAP:URI="someAudio.m4s",BYTERANGE="738@0"
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38977@738
someAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38735@39715
someAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38650@78450
someAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38688@117100
someAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38820@155788
someAudio.m4s

And 

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:6
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXT-X-MAP:URI="someOtherAudio.m4s",BYTERANGE="738@0"
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38724@738
someOtherAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38812@39462
someOtherAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38632@78274
someOtherAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38804@116906
someOtherAudio.m4s
#EXTINF:9.798821,
#EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38720@155710
someOtherAudio.m4s

Why would these byte ranges be different? I've been trying to look through the 
libavformat source code 
(https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavformat/hlsenc.c 
<https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavformat/hlsenc.c>) but it 
looks like this determination is done in whoever calls hls_write_packet.

Thanks,

Ronak

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