How to download m3u8 and ts video movie streams.

m3u8.md

m3u8 Downloading

1. Open Chrome Developer tools and click the Network tab.
2. Navigate to the page with the video and get it to start playing.
3. Filter the list of files to "m3u8".
4. Find master.m3u8 or index.m3u8 and click on it.
5. Save the file to disk and look inside it.
6. If the file contains a single m3u8 master url, copy that one instead.
7. Run the program m3u8x.
8. Paste the same m3u8 url in both textboxes (URL and Quality URL) and click "Headers" and set the referral url and user-agent from the request as found in Chrome.
9. Select the Video format of "MP4".
10. Checkmark "One .. One".
11. Click "Download".
12. A dialog will display with all of the individual .ts files. Click "Download" to download them all and join them together.

Auto-Clicking Continue Dialog

Occasionally, the download of one of the .ts files may fail and a dialog will displaying asking to continue or not. You can automatically click "Yes" and continue downloading everything by using a tool such as Buzof.

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This is the command that consistently works for me:
ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/vse-vms-transcoding-artifact-us-east-1-prod/fb043d87-2a63-4e0d-a0a3-52c8b536ea0d/default.jobtemplate.hls.m3u8" -c copy video.mp4

This is the command that consistently works for me: ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/vse-vms-transcoding-artifact-us-east-1-prod/fb043d87-2a63-4e0d-a0a3-52c8b536ea0d/default.jobtemplate.hls.m3u8" -c copy video.mp4

This works perfectly !! Thanks.

I'm trying to download videos from this page:
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/30762/683275
Can anyone help me find a way to do it?

I'm trying to download videos from this page: https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/30762/683275 Can anyone help me find a way to do it?

@hagbard231 Download yt-dlp and run the code

yt-dlp --legacy-server-connect \
'https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/lixe/files/71/86/7186c268-7f86-4ebc-b514-f2ef5bdb1bc5/43605_1_1_Welt_im_stream_1/master.m3u8'

@hagbard231 Download yt-dlp and run the code

yt-dlp --legacy-server-connect \
'https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/lixe/files/71/86/7186c268-7f86-4ebc-b514-f2ef5bdb1bc5/43605_1_1_Welt_im_stream_1/master.m3u8'

Thank you so much @tillcash ! Your solution works like a charm. This was a major pain for me.

I suggest vovosoft m3u8 downloader from major geeks just get the version direcly frmo their site it has worked for me for many videos just need to update the ffmpeg manually.

This is the command that consistently works for me: ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/vse-vms-transcoding-artifact-us-east-1-prod/fb043d87-2a63-4e0d-a0a3-52c8b536ea0d/default.jobtemplate.hls.m3u8" -c copy video.mp4

This is brilliant!

An alternative approach which emulates the same headers that your browser sends, thereby bypassing 403 Forbidden errors:

Using Firefox, open Developer Tools using Ctrl + Shift + I, or click on the 3-line hamburger menu in the top-right (1.) > More Tools (2.) > Web Developer Tools (3.).

Go to the Network tab (4.), reload the page, find the appropriate .m3u8 entry, typically named stream.m3u8 or something similar (5.), right-click, Copy Value (6.) > Copy as cURL (7.).

Then paste the resulting cURL command into here: https://windyakin.github.io/curl2ffmpeg. Download and install the free, open source FFMpeg tool if you don't already have it, paste the resulting ffmpeg command into your commandline (you may have to add a .exe suffix, eg: ffmpeg becomes ffmpeg.exe if you are using Windows) and enjoy the video!