Playing and Converting .ts stream files from Apple iTunes

[jakobud2]

Apple has some streamable videos for stuff like their Apple Music Festival (applemusic.com/festival) that they did recently. While playing a video I used Wireshark to see the m3u8 playlist files and cooresponding .ts files that iTunes was streaming and the cookie that iTunes was using to stream the ts files.

I put together a Node.js script that fetches all the .ts files for a live show (~600 .ts files). The script appears to download and write the files properly to my PC. They average about 5mb each. However I can't seem to play them. I've tried Media Player, VLC, etc. They just don't seem to play.

Is there any trick to getting them to play? Is there some way to verify or validate that they are actually .ts files and that I didn't screw up writing them in my program?

[Baldrick]

Aren't they encrypted?

What does mediainfo say if you open a .ts?

[jakobud2]

It doesn't say much about it. What should I be looking for? I've never used MediaInfo before.

How can I tell if they are encrypted?

[Baldrick]

Change to view->text in mediainfo and copy everything. Post it here.

But I guess you can't do much.

[Adithya]

They must be encrypted if VLC can't play it. Post the mediainfo as Baldrick said.