Aria2c M3u8 -

grep -E "^https?://.*\.ts" playlist.m3u8 > ts_urls.txt

echo "[3/3] Merging segments into $OUTPUT_NAME.mp4..." aria2c m3u8

To solve this, feed the M3U8 URL directly into FFmpeg, and configure FFmpeg to use aria2c as its external downloader backend to handle the decryption automatically during transit. grep -E "^https

if [ -z "$M3U8_URL" ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <m3u8_url> [output_name]" exit 1 fi Once aria2c finishes downloading, you will have a

This tells ffmpeg to delegate chunk downloads to aria2c. Works beautifully, though support varies by ffmpeg build.

Once aria2c finishes downloading, you will have a folder full of files named segment1.ts , segment2.ts , etc. You must merge them into a single playable video file. On Windows (Command Prompt): copy /b *.ts output.ts Use code with caution. On Linux / macOS: cat *.ts > output.ts Use code with caution.

echo "Downloading playlist: $M3U8_URL"