M3U8 Video Downloader

Overview

Download videos from M3U8/HLS streaming URLs by parsing playlists, downloading TS segments with multi-threading, handling encrypted streams (AES-128), and merging all segments into a single MP4 file using ffmpeg.

Prerequisites

Before executing, ensure the following are available:

1. Python 3 with requests library installed: pip install requests
2. ffmpeg installed and added to system PATH (required for merging TS segments into MP4)
3. Network access to the M3U8 URL

Workflow

1. Understand the User's Request