sudo apt install aria2 # Debian/Ubuntu sudo dnf install aria2 # Fedora sudo pacman -S aria2 # Arch
Do the video segments require specific ? aria2c m3u8
aria2c --header="Referer: https://example.com" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0..." -i playlist.m3u8 Use code with caution. Summary Table: Aria2c Commands for M3U8 aria2c -i playlist.m3u8 Download with 16 connections aria2c -j 16 -x 16 -s 16 -i playlist.m3u8 Resume interrupted download aria2c -c -i playlist.m3u8 Download with User Agent aria2c --user-agent="..." -i playlist.m3u8 sudo apt install aria2 # Debian/Ubuntu sudo dnf
This approach allows you to pause and resume downloads, which is invaluable for large video files. does not natively parse and download HLS (
does not natively parse and download HLS ( ) playlists as a single media stream, its most powerful "feature" for this use case is its integration as an external downloader for Multi-Threaded Fragment Downloading When paired with can download individual video fragments (
To solve this, feed the M3U8 URL directly into FFmpeg, and configure FFmpeg to use aria2c as its external downloader backend to handle the decryption automatically during transit.
Once you have your download_links.txt file ready, use aria2c to download all segments at maximum speed. Run the following command in your terminal: aria2c -j 16 -x 16 -s 16 -i download_links.txt Use code with caution. Command Breakdown: