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.