m3u8 stream to mp4 using ffmpeg

m3u8-to-mp4.md

1. Copy m3u8 link

2. Run command

echo "Enter m3u8 link:";read link;echo "Enter output filename:";read filename;ffmpeg -i "$link" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 $filename.mp4

Example final command

ffmpeg -i "http://host/folder/file.m3u8" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 file.mp4

If you run this exact command on newer FFMPEG versions you'll probably get an error about something not being on the whitelist: protocol https not on whitelist

Modify the command to use this instead

$ ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,https,tcp,tls -i master.m3u8 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 video.mp4 

Tested with FFMPEG versions 5.0 and newer

Thanks! How to speed up the download (like, download concurrently?)

Use N_m3u8DL-RE with -mt argument.

Tried using VLC and it was being tempermental on me, this worked so much better thank you

can you please share more details how we can convert using VLC Kit?

Works great also i noticed if you copy a 1280x720 youtube video url from download helper and use this method it downloads the 1920x1080 video instead it downloads a higher qualtiy video then the original. It works perfectly thank you.

This works perfectly, thanks for sharing!

nice work