N_m3u8DL-RE Video+Audio Separated In Folders

[Mochomo]

Hi everyone. I'm running N_m3u8DL-RE in a Linux server via command line with following code:

N_m3u8DL-RE ".m3u8" --save-name 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - Practice 2 -sv best -sa all

I get the best video and all audio files in separate folders.
This is main folder created.


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Then if I go inside the folder created I can see more folders for video and audios separated.


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Inside Video and Audio folders I find a lot of files with extension .ts


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It's supposed N_m3u8DL-R should assign extension .mp4 for video and .m4a for audios?
Why am I getting files this way separated in folders?

Hopefully someone can help here. Thanks.

[djflakf1]

In my case I use

--live-real-time-merge

as the documentation says and as a very kind user here taught me, I don't know if there is another way but in my case it always stays together with several audios

[Mochomo]

I just tried adding "--live-real-time-merge"

N_m3u8DL-RE "MPD" --save-name 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - Practice 2 -sv best -sa all --live-real-time-merge

It didn't work. I just don't know why is creating all these folders. Also audio files as .ts instead of .m4a ... Really weird.

[djflakf1]

I just tried adding "--live-real-time-merge"

N_m3u8DL-RE "MPD" --save-name 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - Practice 2 -sv best -sa all --live-real-time-merge

It didn't work. I just don't know why is creating all these folders. Also audio files as .ts instead of .m4a ... Really weird.

Are you adding the keys for that mpd? I don't see that you have that tag added

[Mochomo]

Sorry, I just edited my initial post, this video is not MPD, it's .m3u8

[white_snake]

If you're dealing with live video, then you should use:

--live-pipe-mux --live-keep-segments False

If it's a VOD, then just mux everything after the download is finished:

-M format=mkv

[lomero]

it's not weird. your command on first post download from m3u8, save video with name, best video and all audio files
missing command to join audio/video files, like white_snake says, with live-pipe-mux (for live) or mkv format for simply VOD

[Mochomo]

As suggested I added this at the end of my code.

-M format=mkv

It didn't work. Mux process failed. Please refer to screenshot.


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As I can see, mux process fails because audio extension is ".ts" and video as well.
It should be ".m4a" for audio since it's "aac" audio and ".mp4" for the video.

Weird all files are downloaded as .ts

FYI... If I use "ffmpeg" to download and merge files it just works as expect. I'm trying to use N_m3u8DL-RE since download speed is way faster.

[white_snake]

If you provided the full command (with the full m3u8 url) it would be easier to give you assistance.

[Mochomo]

My bad. This is the full command. It's VOD, not live.

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://ott-video-fer-cf.formula1.com/v2/pa_cGF0aDolMkZjODA1OTI3MDUyOWU2M2U0OTJiMzQzMTc5MzNjM2RjYSUyRm91dCUyRnYxJTJGMTA3Yjc5Y2IwZWY0NDViNDk0ZGQ4N2JjYzY2YzJhOGUlMkYzMzk1NzMwN2M1Yjg0OGE2YmVhNjkzYmI0MDBhNzE2NnxraWQ6MTA0MnxleHA6MTcwOTgxNjc4N3x0dGw6MTQ0MHxnZW86VVN8c3RyZWFtVHlwZTpITFN8c2Vzc2lvbklkOjE2ODk0NTA2OV8wMUhSOVhZTjExODdZOEs3OFJUNDIxWDFIQ3x0b2tlbjpmQlhLQ05kYnZNS0ltOVNoUFpoc01Wd2p2ZGxNSVBxWDE1NEtsbVVNeHpvXw__/c8059270529e63e492b34317933c3dca/out/v1/107b79cb0ef445b494dd87bcc66c2a8e/33957307c5b848a6bea693bb400a7166/e4d49ef8077f4032a097e2b0c8a962bb/index.m3u8" --save-name Practice -sv best -sa all -M format=mkv

[white_snake]

My bad. This is the full command. It's VOD, not live.

It worked fine for me, at least downloading partially using:

--custom-range 0-5

Try with this N_m3u8DL-RE version here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/413676-N_m3u8DL-RE-pre-release

And these ffmpeg binaries: https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases

[Mochomo]

It worked fine for me, at least downloading partially using:

--custom-range 0-5

Is this how it should look the new complete code?

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://ott-video-fer-cf.formula1.com/v2/pa_cGF0aDolMkZjODA1OTI3MDUyOWU2M2U0OTJiMzQzMTc5MzNjM2RjYSUyRm91dCUyRnYxJTJGMTA3Yjc5Y2IwZWY0NDViNDk0ZGQ4N2JjYzY2YzJhOGUlMkYzMzk1NzMwN2M1Yjg0OGE2YmVhNjkzYmI0MDBhNzE2NnxraWQ6MTA0MnxleHA6MTcwOTgxNjc4N3x0dGw6MTQ0MHxnZW86VVN8c3RyZWFtVHlwZTpITFN8c2Vzc2lvbklkOjE2ODk0NTA2OV8wMUhSOVhZTjExODdZOEs3OFJUNDIxWDFIQ3x0b2tlbjpmQlhLQ05kYnZNS0ltOVNoUFpoc01Wd2p2ZGxNSVBxWDE1NEtsbVVNeHpvXw__/c8059270529e63e492b34317933c3dca/out/v1/107b79cb0ef445b494dd87bcc66c2a8e/33957307c5b848a6bea693bb400a7166/e4d49ef8077f4032a097e2b0c8a962bb/index.m3u8" --save-name Practice -sv best -sa all -M format=mkv --custom-range 0-5

[white_snake]

Is this how it should look the new complete code?

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://ott-video-fer-cf.formula1.com/v2/pa_cGF0aDolMkZjODA1OTI3MDUyOWU2M2U0OTJiMzQzMTc5MzNjM2RjYSUyRm91dCUyRnYxJTJGMTA3Yjc5Y2IwZWY0NDViNDk0ZGQ4N2JjYzY2YzJhOGUlMkYzMzk1NzMwN2M1Yjg0OGE2YmVhNjkzYmI0MDBhNzE2NnxraWQ6MTA0MnxleHA6MTcwOTgxNjc4N3x0dGw6MTQ0MHxnZW86VVN8c3RyZWFtVHlwZTpITFN8c2Vzc2lvbklkOjE2ODk0NTA2OV8wMUhSOVhZTjExODdZOEs3OFJUNDIxWDFIQ3x0b2tlbjpmQlhLQ05kYnZNS0ltOVNoUFpoc01Wd2p2ZGxNSVBxWDE1NEtsbVVNeHpvXw__/c8059270529e63e492b34317933c3dca/out/v1/107b79cb0ef445b494dd87bcc66c2a8e/33957307c5b848a6bea693bb400a7166/e4d49ef8077f4032a097e2b0c8a962bb/index.m3u8" --save-name Practice -sv best -sa all -M format=mkv --custom-range 0-5

Yup, works for me. Just make sure to delete the "Practice" folder that contains the temp files to avoid errors.

(this will only download the first 20 seconds of the video of course)

[Mochomo]

This means to download only first 20 seconds? "--custom-range 0-5"

Did you try it on Windows or Linux?

[white_snake]

This means to download only first 20 seconds? "--custom-range 0-5"

Just remove it to download the full file. With the right binaries it should work.

Did you try it on Windows or Linux?

Windows.

[Mochomo]

Try with this N_m3u8DL-RE version here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/413676-N_m3u8DL-RE-pre-release

It worked now using this version of N_m3u8DL-RE

Thanks for your help!!