FFmpeg isn’t the perfect editing tool for every occasion. Since I started using FFmpeg, editing multimedia files from the command line, I’ve started saving a ton of time-time lost in the past to simply opening, loading, decoding and encoding files. I vaguely remember opening audio and video files, one by one, in something like Sony Sound Forge or Adobe Premier Pro, making an edit and then re-saving/re-encoding the file. In fact, I can barely remember life before I started using FFmpeg. NOTE: If nothing comes up when filtering m3u8 in the network tab try “mp4” and sometimes the different URL’s will be for different qualities so pay notice to this.It really is an amazing tool. Save it and then double click it to download the video! Now open up your FFmpeg batch command and past the link as the input (-i) and since mostly these videos are short you’re going to want lossless quality so a batch command like this is ideal: ffmpeg -i '' -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 'saveas.mp4' Now click play on the video and you should see some URL’s pop up.ĩ times out of 10 it will be the first URL and/or the one that has “master” in it, right click this and click copy. Now click on the network tab, type in “m3u8” and make sure ‘all’ is selected. Navigate to the website or video page and open up the developer console, either by right clicking and clicking “inspect” or pressing ctrl+shift+i I like to use Chrome for this as I find their developer tools easier to handle than firefoxes. IF you don’t know or have FFmpeg installed here is the post for you, otherwise follow along to learn how to grab videos from news or sports websites.

Ffmpeg commands to play video