Aria2c M3u8 • Fast

An M3U8 file is essentially a "playlist" of hundreds of tiny video segments (.ts files).

#!/bin/bash M3U8_URL=$1 OUTPUT_NAME=$2:-video TEMP_DIR="hls_temp_$(date +%s)" aria2c m3u8

cat ./segments/*.ts > "$OUTPUT_NAME".ts ffmpeg -i "$OUTPUT_NAME".ts -c copy "$OUTPUT_NAME".mp4 An M3U8 file is essentially a "playlist" of

An M3U8 is a UTF-8 encoded playlist file used by HLS streaming. Instead of one large video file, the stream is broken into hundreds of small .ts (Transport Stream) segments. The M3U8 file lists URLs to these segments. aria2c m3u8