m3u8 livestreams do not play on VLC or IINA

[copyist_moth]

Hello - there is a IPTV live stream at http://live.tvfix.org/play/jade that I want to play on VLC or IINA, instead of using the browser.

I’ve used Google Developer Tools to extract the m3u8 urls:
http://live.tvfix.org/hls/jadehk_a1.m3u8
http://live.tvfix.org/hls/jadehk_s1.m3u8
http://live.tvfix.org/hls/jadehk_v.m3u8
http://live.tvfix.org/hls/jadehk.m3u8

But none of them play when I paste them into VLC or IINA (I also don’t understand why there are 4 m3u8 urls when there is only one stream). What am I missing? Thanks!

[Quint]

DRM protected?

[copyist_moth]

DRM protected?

Not sure. How can I check?

[Quint]

If you try to download the m3u8s by just klicking on one you get a 403. So vlc can't play anything listed inside an m3u8 if it can't access it.
Maybe the streams are also DRM-protected. You should read, read, read here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/forums/48-Video-Streaming-Downloading

[jack_666]

This site is vey challenging. Non standard m3u8

#EXTINF:7.979,
jadehk_a1_75.gif



#EXTINF:8.000,
jadehk_s1_73.xml



Content is worthless but the obfuscation is challenging.


Observed that the contents of the dev tools network display are erased by the javascript used. It's as if the contents of the display buffer are being nulled.

[ElCap]

looks like they hide the encryption information in the m3u8 and have that info in the javascript (i guess).
its encrypted with AES128.

to be able to download the master m3u8 you need to add this header "Baseurl: http://live.tvfix.org"

if you wanted to use vlc, youd need to run something like this to modify the requests.
https://github.com/woodongwong/tvfix

this can be recorded with n_m3u8dl-re by manually specifying the encryption and key

>N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "http://live.tvfix.org/hls/jadehk.m3u8" -H "Baseurl: http://live.tvfix.org" --live-record-limit 00:01:00 --live-real-time-merge -M format=mp4 --custom-hls-method AES_128 --custom-hls-key 20a0492341261da0c070b239c632600a

subs dont seem to be working with n_m3u8dl-re though