How to download aes encrypted m3u8 using ffmpeg or youtube-dl?

Question

I have the m3u8 file and the key.bin, inside the m3u8 file is:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:4
#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:6
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="key.bin"
#EXTINF:6.000000,
segment-0.ts
...
#EXTINF:4.416667,
segment-159.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST

and inside the key.bin file is

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How do I download this as an mp4 using ffmpeg or youtube-dl?.

Solution

You can use ffmpeg like so:

ffmpeg -i video.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc video.mp4

Also if the urls are https you can add https to allowed protocols like so:

ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto -i video.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc video.mp4

Original article: Download encrypted HLS content with ffmpeg - davd.io

Comments

[Kamil Maciorowski]

You can share the knowledge then.

[weakplayrxw]

youtube-dl -o file.mp4 "m3u8-URL" might need to pass proper headers for youtube-dl/ffmpeg to be allowed to download the key. use --user-agent "" and --referer "" (use same user-agent as your browser, find yours easily at ifconfig.me/ua, and referer is the main URL in the browser from where you sniffed out the m3u8 URL) ( Thanks goes to the guy from reddit who gave the solution.)

[gronostaj]

-1 because the answer is basically unreadable