Saving M3U8 as video file

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Saving M3U8 as video file

Postby me1423 » 23 Feb 2019 12:51

I'm trying to convert this URL https://vod-ww.s4c-cdn.co.uk/antarctica ... 92273.m3u8 When I go Open Network Stream>Network and paste this URL and play it under Show Codec Information I can see it's 960x540. But when I save/convert it, it saves as a file that's 480x270. I think I know where this comes from. I have pasted the file that gets downloaded if you put the URL into Chrome and open in Notepad. The first video is 480. I tried to copy and paste "antarctica__antarctica_mewn_perygl_cymr_r6082r_002fc92273_Ott_Hls_Ts_Avc_Aac_16x9_960x540p_2000Kbps.m3u8" into the Convert/Save box but this just keeps asking if I want to overwrite a file or keep the existing copy but I don't have a file to overwrite.
How can I save the 960 version? I tried playing with the format but I cannot see an option to download the higher quality one.

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#EXTM3U #EXT-X-VERSION:3 #EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=657749,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=503801,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.5",RESOLUTION=480x270,FRAME-RATE=25.000 antarctica__antarctica_mewn_perygl_cymr_r6082r_002fc92273_Ott_Hls_Ts_Avc_Aac_16x9_480x270p_400Kbps.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=960053,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=708302,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.5",RESOLUTION=640x360,FRAME-RATE=25.000 antarctica__antarctica_mewn_perygl_cymr_r6082r_002fc92273_Ott_Hls_Ts_Avc_Aac_16x9_640x360p_600Kbps.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1690997,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=1354719,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.5",RESOLUTION=640x360,FRAME-RATE=25.000 antarctica__antarctica_mewn_perygl_cymr_r6082r_002fc92273_Ott_Hls_Ts_Avc_Aac_16x9_640x360p_1200Kbps.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=2622976,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=2171939,CODECS="avc1.640028,mp4a.40.5",RESOLUTION=960x540,FRAME-RATE=25.000 antarctica__antarctica_mewn_perygl_cymr_r6082r_002fc92273_Ott_Hls_Ts_Avc_Aac_16x9_960x540p_2000Kbps.m3u8

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Re: Saving M3U8 as video file

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 10 Mar 2019 21:40

You cannot do that easily.
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