diff --git a/doc/muxers.texi b/doc/muxers.texi
index b6cafaa5fd..b2f4326aae 100644
--- a/doc/muxers.texi
+++ b/doc/muxers.texi
@@ -1060,6 +1060,8 @@ and remove the @code{#EXT-X-ENDLIST} from the old segment list.
 @item round_durations
 Round the duration info in the playlist file segment info to integer
 values, instead of using floating point.
+If there are no other features requiring higher HLS versions be used,
+then this will allow ffmpeg to output a HLS version 2 m3u8.
 
 @item discont_start
 Add the @code{#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY} tag to the playlist, before the
diff --git a/libavformat/hlsenc.c b/libavformat/hlsenc.c
index 3bafddfa61..7c097b4bf2 100644
--- a/libavformat/hlsenc.c
+++ b/libavformat/hlsenc.c
@@ -1550,7 +1550,11 @@ static int hls_window(AVFormatContext *s, int last, VariantStream *vs)
     double *prog_date_time_p = (hls->flags & HLS_PROGRAM_DATE_TIME) ? &prog_date_time : NULL;
     int byterange_mode = (hls->flags & HLS_SINGLE_FILE) || (hls->max_seg_size > 0);
 
-    hls->version = 3;
+    hls->version = 2;
+    if (!(hls->flags & HLS_ROUND_DURATIONS)) {
+        hls->version = 3;
+    }
+
     if (byterange_mode) {
         hls->version = 4;
         sequence = 0;