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I am trying to download video from a .m3u8 livestream video format.

How can I download m3u8 videos using software on my personal computer such as ffmpeg, youtube-dl, VLC, etc?

M3U is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and is often used in downloads from a website, for emailing, and for listening to Internet radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

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Get FFmpeg, then you can download your video with this command:

ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i "https://example.com/playlist.m3u8" -c copy video.mp4

But it may be easier to use yt-dlp (installation instructions here):

yt-dlp "https://example.com/playlist.m3u8"
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