N_m3u8DL-RE Question?

[Oldfart1234]

I am trying to get a live stream with N_m3u8DL-RE and as soon as it hits a commercial break and the audio changes it "dies", I put dies in quotes because the program does not actually die, it just stops buffering in anything else and does not get anymore of the stream, unless of course you stop and restart it. I am just wondering is there anyway to force it to keep going and ignore the audio change?

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What's the full n_m3u8dl-re command you're running?

[Oldfart1234]

What's the full n_m3u8dl-re command you're running?

N_m3u8DL-RE "URL" --use-shaka-packager --live-real-time-merge --live-pipe-mux

[lomero]

--use-shaka-packager ... and key ? without key shaka code is useless

and URL is from ? just for test

[jtmaher]

I have this same issue. My command is:

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://www.example.com/my.mpd" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Origin: https://www.example.com" -H "Referer: https://www.example.com/" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Sec-GPC: 1" --key KID:KEY --decryption-engine SHAKA_PACKAGER --live-real-time-merge --tmp-dir E:\tmp --save-dir E:\save -sv worst -sa worst

. I have tried playing the output in VLC, MPC-HC, and PotPlayer. It gets stuck in all three, usually after a commercial break starts or ends.

I worked around this issue by just using OBS Studio to screen record my Chrome browser as the video was playing. I know this is not an ideal solution, but it is the only thing that reliably worked for me.