[dave5654656]

When I go to the below site, it brings up a video

https://www.discoverygo.com/rattled/ready-or-not-here-comes-baby/

and when I identify what requests are going through I see an m3u8 but when I try to input that into ffmpeg I get "HTTP error 403 Forbidden"

though when I try to download the materials directly through firefox, it works which makes me think that it's based on a cookie inside the browser for authorization

i.e., is there some way to make ffmpeg run with the cookies in my browser?

[shawn1122]

Look at the Page source. there is an m3u8 file there it will be similar to this:

https:\/\/dscusvod-vh.akamaihd.net\/i\/longform\/2016-02\/02\/149845.001.02.002-25603-,500k,200k,350k,800k,1200k,1600k,2200k,3000k,4500k ,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8?hdnts=exp=1456202436~acl=\/*~hmac=91ead527d3d6be8b01be5f78b843a2ba69a8ba9e0f5 320e892c9e362592c7776

Open it in notepad and replace \/ with simply /. I pasted that url into FFMpeg and it's working.

[dave5654656]

thanks - i was overthinking it - works for me fine now