Aria2c M3u8 -

ffmpeg -i output.ts -c copy output.mp4

Is it user-friendly? No. You have to know how to inspect network traffic to find the hidden URL, and you have to read the manual to understand the flags. aria2c m3u8

: A text-based playlist format (HLS) that lists multiple small media segments (typically ffmpeg -i output

curl -s "https://example.com/video.m3u8" | head -n 20 aria2c m3u8

aria2c -x 16 -s 16 "http://example.com/video/stream.m3u8"

M3U8 files are playlists. They don't contain video themselves; they contain a list of URLs to small video chunks (usually .ts files).

The .m3u8 file is a text file. You need to extract all the links ending in .ts . You can do this using grep or awk on Linux/Mac, or a simple search-and-replace in a text editor.