README.md

hlsdl - project has been closed - please start to use different branch

This program converts .m3u8 playlists (using fragmented MPEG-2 Transport Streams) to a .ts video. It supports decryption of both AES-128 and SAMPLE-AES encryption.

Requirements

This program requires libcurl and libcrypto libraries.

Build

Linux: make && make install && make clean

Windows: https://github.com/samsamsam-iptvplayer/hlsdl/blob/master/msvc/BUID_WINDOWS.txt

Usage and Options

./hlsdl url [options]

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-b ... Automatically choose the best quality.

-v ... Verbose more information.

-o ... Choose name of output file ("-" alias for stdout).

-u ... Set custom HTTP User-Agent header.

-h ... Set custom HTTP header.

-p ... Set proxy uri.

-k ... Allow to replace part of AES key uri - old.

-n ... Allow to replace part of AES key uri - new.

-f ... Force overwriting the output file.

-q ... Print less to the console.

-d ... Print the openssl decryption command.

-t ... Print the links to the .ts files.

-s ... Set live start offset in seconds.

-e ... Set refresh delay in seconds.

-r ... Set max retries at open.

-w ... Set max download segment retries.

-a ... Set additional url to the audio media playlist.

ToDo

• support for Fragmented MPEG-4 playlist
• support for EXT-X-MAP in the MPEG-2 Transport Streams playlist