In other words, you can drag the video to any point for smoothly playing immediately. There is no extra datas and no need for buffering. First and foremost, it’s fast to drag the video. This owes to the advantages of M3U8 format. You may ask why should we encode to M3U8 format on Mac OS X El Capitan. Playlist doesn’t contain any multimedia content, it is only list of media files selected from a hard disk or other media. M3U and M3U8 playlists can be opened in a variety of media players, such as Winamp, KMPlayer, iTunes, VLC media player etc. M3U8 is the basic for the HTTP Live Streaming format used by Apple to stream video to iOS devices. M3U file, except the text stored in the file uses UTF-8 character encoding. M3U8 is the playlist file used by various audio and video playback programs. This article focus on introducing a top-ranked M3U8 Converter for Mac OS X (El Capitan Included) and delivering the step by step guide to convert video to M3U8 format.