Video stream catch

 PREAMBLE

Tutorial expresses the author's subjective ideas and conform to AAL license.

Description

Use this method for site that doesn't allow download option for their video clips.

Intro

First of all, get FFmpeg. 

Next Level

Open site with your video clip. For educational purpose, we will use TED Talk of Linus Torvalds. Right click on page and hit Inspect option

Choose Network tab and hit Reload button.

In search field type .m3u8 

and copy manifest.m3u8 url.

In terminal go to the folder where you plan to save video file and type in terminal next command and wait.

$ ffmpeg -i https://hls.ted.com/project_masters/7060/manifest.m3u8 -c copy LinusTED.mkv

In my case is url is https://hls.ted.com/project_masters/7060/manifest.m3u8. In your can be another.

$ ls -alh

$ mplayer LinusTED.mkv

Last thoughts

Be shure that I will update tutorial in the future. So, stay on tune. And, in case it was useful, share please with your fellows or comment something regarded the subject.

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