Elsewhere in the thread [1], when someone did post the url to the livestream for people to view on non-apple devices, you said:
This will give you a static stream, which means if your bandwidth dips or the demand spikes you may have problems.
So don't complain if you have problems with it.
so, there seem to be technical issues with this "open" specification, that seems to be a hack atop m3us, if it requires a non-trivial amount of coding for it not behave like a 1998 copy of realplayer. Perhaps apple's spec is just crap.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9680220