What kodi addon needed to support playlist.m3u8

The other day when I tried to watch some live soccer channel on my Linux desktop computer with kodi v16.1, I only got the audio while the video showed a 3-D square field filled with lots of vertical square bars. Also, I noticed at the bottom left corner, it said something like playlist.m3u8. TBH, I have no idea what it was, but thought probably my kodi is missing some M3U8 codec addon to support an m3u8 video. So, does anyone here know how to resolve this issue?