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- How to Download m3u8 stream to local HD in OS X? (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 1095) AppleWebKit/601.7.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.3 Safari/537.86.7' -i.
- To start off, download and install FFmpeg if you haven't already. Next, go to the streaming site from where you want to download and grab the M3U8 video URL.For ease of use, you can use free extensions like Video DownloadHelper available for both Chrome and Firefox to grab the M3U8 file.
“I downloaded some files saved in M3U8 format, but I got nothing but an error alert after I double-click on the file, how to open M3U8 files or convert M3U8 to MP4?”
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Download IPTV (M3U8) List Player and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac OS X 10.15 or later, or Apple TV. IPTVPlayer is an IPTV list manager application which works in all of your devices.
Generally speaking, a file with M3U8 extension is not a real multimedia file but an audio playlist file encoded UTF-8. You need a dedicated media player to read the M3U8 file. The alternative solution is to convert it to standard multimedia format, such as MP4. That is what you can learn from this post.
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Part 1: How to Convert M3U8 to MP4 with VLC
VLC is a popular open-source media player with extensive useful features, like rip DVD, convert M3U8 to MP4 on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Step 1 Open the free M3U8 to MP4 converter on your computer. You can download it from the official website (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) for free.
Step 2 Select Convert/Save from the Media menu to open the open-media dialog. Click the Add button and add the M3U8 file into VLC. When success, it will area in the File Selection box. Click the Convert/Save button at the bottom to open the next window.
Step 3 Go to the Settings section, click and expand the Profile drop-down list. Choose a proper MP4 format or your favorite multimedia format.
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Step 4 Click the Browse button and select a specific folder to save the output files. After setting, click on the Start button to initiate M3U8 to MP4 conversion. It may take a moment to finish, so you must be patient.
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Note: VLC cannot handle encrypted media files. If your M3U8 file is copyright protected, it will fail on conversion.