Well that doesnt make any sense. All M3U8 files do start with HTTP.  I outputs the same way i send the HLS files to Iphone/Ipad, Roku and other IPTV Devices. They all work fine except Roku. Roku should fix this issue as more and more people can not go back and re purchase the servers/encoders. Will If that was the case some one from roku support would have immediately could tell us that was the case. I am sure this issue will be fixed as we are talking about a lot of servers/encoders that outputs in HLS. Prior to the update M3U8 files all was needed to playback the stream on ROKU. Now causes crash. Remember that if roku didnt want to support the format, It didnt have to crash or freeze. It could pup up a message saying such format is no longer supported which I dont think is the case because we are talking many users that are using the M3U8 with or without variations in their URL. Lets keep our hopes up and fingers crossed that Joel overcome this issue.