13 WTHR local Station web-dl issue

[doctorm]

I've live download from this network before. I can't remember if I'm doing anything different so I don't know if this is my fault or if they've changed something.

https://www.wthr.com/watch

I've tried using n_m3u8dl-re and yt-dlp. It seems successful, but it goes wrong when they have a commercial.

The video downloads during the commercials, but the audio track doesn't. So playing it back the audio of the program continues to play during the commercial break, and of course when the show returns the audio is out of sync.

0.m3u8 is the 1080p version of the stream and index.m3u8 has the same result.

Any suggestions?

[LZAA]

n_m3u8dl-re --live-real-time-merge "https://video.tegnaone.com/wthr/live/v1/manifest/f9c1bf9ffd6ac86b6173a7c169ff6e3f4efbd693/WTHR-Production/fca34a67-d7bd-4404-a76a-4982c4c15a74/0.m3u8"

[doctorm]

Edit:
Ah. The issue was that I had "-M format=mp4". It 'fixes' the timing issues, which is what causes the problem. It apparently has to remain .ts(?)

Playing it back and the time on my media player goes nuts.

Is this them, me, and/or something that can be repaired?

[LZAA]

What's the problem?

[doctorm]

The audio goes out of sync in mp4 format.
Kept in .ts format it freezes occasionally on playback and when a commercial comes up the time on my media player can jump from 00:06:30 and to 02:12:00 or 530:00:00 while the commercial is playing without sound. The time codes are really messed up.

[LZAA]

n_m3u8dl-re --live-real-time-merge "https://video.tegnaone.com/wthr/live/v1/manifest/f9c1bf9ffd6ac86b6173a7c169ff6e3f4efbd693/WTHR-Production/fca34a67-d7bd-4404-a76a-4982c4c15a74/0.m3u8"

[doctorm]

Have you tried downloading for 10-15 minutes and recording commercial breaks? This just doesn't come out as having good timing and audio sync once there is a commercial.
The commercials don't even have any audio.

[Asdfgf]

https://gofile.io/d/VcpKNv

The commercials don´t show video, only an static image with audio, but when it starts again the show, the audio is okay. (See it yourself, advance to 02:50 on the video file that I uploaded)
Try the chrome extension called "Stre am Recor der - HLS & m3u8 Video Downloader" (without spaces in its name) to do it.

[doctorm]

https://gofile.io/d/VcpKNv

The commercials don´t show video, only an static image with audio, but when it starts again the show, the audio is okay. (See it yourself, advance to 02:50 on the video file that I uploaded)
Try the chrome extension called "Stre am Recor der - HLS & m3u8 Video Downloader" (without spaces in its name) to do it.

Thanks. Feels like a cheat, but it seems to work well.
Here's an example of what n_m3u8dl-re was doing (and I think yt-dlp was as well). While this has the audio go out of sync, in .ts format the video played back awkward and the time positions were all over the place. Trying to manually fix the timing issue with ffmpeg had the same result.
https://gofile.io/d/Yr1D8T