- Open Chrome Developer tools and click the Network tab.
- Navigate to the page with the video and get it to start playing.
- Filter the list of files to "m3u8".
- Find master.m3u8 or index.m3u8 and click on it.
- Save the file to disk and look inside it.
- If the file contains a single m3u8 master url, copy that one instead.
- Run the program m3u8x.
- 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.
- Select the Video format of "MP4".
- Checkmark "One .. One".
- Click "Download".
- A dialog will display with all of the individual .ts files. Click "Download" to download them all and join them together.
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.
In my case I was able to download the mp4 file of videos by finding the m3u8 address (it was not named index/master by the way). Since I used the chrome dev tool, I right clicked the m3u8 item then clicked copy address. Then I pasted that address into a browser window, removed the ".m3u8" extension, then navigated to that webpage address. A page showing only the video appeared and I was able to right click the video and choose "save as", letting me save it as an mp4 file.
For those using VLC, looks there there is one possible caveat quoted below:
"In other words, the .m3u8 address you enter in VLC must contain .ts files only. If your .m3u8 file contains a list of .m3u8 files, then it's up to VLC which .m3u8 file to use. In version 2.2.2, VLC would pick the first .m3u8 in the list."
Quoted from https://www.oneminuteinfo.com/2016/10/download-ts-files-and-convert-to-mp4.html