MediaPlayer, only video m3u8 HTML streams work

I'm using the MediaPlayer with a m3u8 audio stream. This results in a log error message: Error(1, -1010)

The first argument seems ok when I look at the error codes: https://github.com/android/platform_external_opencore/blob/master/pvmi/pvmf/include/pvmf_return_codes.h

Only -1010, is strange.

When I use the apple video m3u8 url it's working great! This is the url: http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8

The code I'm using is simple:

MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
try {
    mediaPlayer.setDataSource("http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8");
    mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
    mediaPlayer.prepare();
    mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
    mediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener(this);
    mediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
    mediaPlayer.start();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalStateException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) { 
    e1.printStackTrace();
}

Does anyone know if there is a limitation for audio only streams? I used multiple formats and different extensions.

Other question: does anyone have an URL of an m3u8 audio stream, so I can test other streams?

I'm currently attached to a project tackling this very subject. Now I know this doesn't really answer your question, but just for insight, even on Android 4.0+ M3U8 support is spotty at best, awful at worst.

E.g.:

Nexus 7 fails on Akmai, works on UStream
Droid RAZR works on both Akmai and UStream.

Now short of patching the libraries via class extension (and having .so's for every other android minor version) we found no SDK/NDK-only solution; we gave up after a month of trial and error on our project (too costly).

The solution we implemented was: Try the SDK MediaPlayer. If that fails use a FFMPEG based player (developed in-house, using dranger, ffplay, android-fplayer and dolphin-player as inspiration).