Although YouTube is the most convenient video streaming service, there are more and more similar video platforms. With the ever-expanding network and the increasing bandwidth, whether you are watching videos or listening to music, any online video platform is not a problem. But sometimes you want to keep the video downloads and watch them when you have free time without disturbing advertisements. Take a look at Live Stream Downloader, which can easily download HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) videos with just a browser. It is quite practical.
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Currently, many paid video websites provide various movies, Taiwanese dramas, Chinese dramas, Japanese occupation, Korean dramas, American dramas, cartoons and other videos. In order to allow users to watch them on their devices, they use streaming technology to deliver visual and audio media to users through the Internet, which is the HTTP-based streaming media network transmission protocol HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), the entire traffic can be divided into small media segments (usually .ts files), and the index files created by these segments are M3U8 files, which are the so-called playlists. Therefore, as long as you hang up the “Live Stream Downloader” extension kit on your browser, you can download streaming videos easily and happily.
[Software name]: Live Stream Downloader
【Official website】：https://add0n.com/hls-downloader.html
[Download and install]:Chrome、Firefox and Edge
▼Live Stream Downloader supports Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Taking Chrome as an example, just clickhereTo install the extension, press the blue button “+Add to Chrome” as shown below.
▼The same installation confirmation window will appear for Google chrome extensions. Select the [Add Extension] action.
▼After successful installation, the “Live Stream Downloader” icon and installation success message will appear at the top of the Google Chrome browser.
▼After installation, it is hidden by default, so you need to cancel the hiding, as shown below to pin the right side of the browsing bar.
▼When I usually watch streaming platforms, I sometimes want to download the file, or even play it on my mobile phone or computer, but I often give up when I think of the trouble of conversion. Now that there is an expansion kit, it is not a problem. First, find the audio and video platform you want to download, as shown belowDogevodTake an online video website as an example. Go to the video page and click the “Live Stream Downloader” icon in the upper right corner.
▼The download window will then appear. If there are different resolutions available for download, you will be asked to select the resolution for download. After entering the image quality number to be downloaded, click [OK] to continue. .
▼When looking at the current icon window, pay a little attention. After all, there may be multiple streaming videos on the webpage, some of which are advertisements, and some of which are multiple download nodes (green boxes). You can judge from the download URL whether it is an advertisement or a multi-download point for the video. You can click [Remove] to remove the extra ones. And each node is composed of multiple ts clip files (blue box). Live Stream Downloader can easily merge these into one file. Just click [Download Link(s)] to download. If a link is not removed as shown below, two TS files of the same video from different nodes will be downloaded.
▼While the video is downloading, you can see the current download progress on the icon.
▼After downloading, it is a merged TS file, which can be played directly on Windows systems. Since the TS file is suitable for streaming media playback, if you want to play it on a mobile device, you must convert it to an MP4 file!
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Source: KOCPC Chinese