YouTube video time ranged index.m3u8 download doesn't work?

[BlueVideo10]

Let me make an example.

First I need to mention that this doesn't happen on all videos, and I also note that it's with .m3u8

As example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYjYJmf3_wA


The first thing I'd do is:

yt-dlp -g gYjYJmf3_wA -f bestvideo[ext=mp4]

Then input the link into FFMPEG. And then input time, I put something random that somewhere within the stream for testing.

ffmpeg -ss 50:20 -to 50:25 -i "<PUT LINK HERE>" -c copy out.mp4

And now the issue is that it doesn't work. The -ss parameter and -to should technically as well. But something is wrong with that index.m3u8



You could also just use the https one instead of a m3u8:

299     mp4   1920x1080   60    │    1.72GiB 3665k https │ avc1.64002A   3665k video only          1080p60, mp4_dash

but if you do that something seems odd about the quality, as example Browser can play it fine, but Windows Media Player can't. VLC can play it but the video quality turns out to go scuffed.

[Frieren]

just use Internet Download Manager