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Originally Posted by wer783
You can download the m3u8 file and edit it so that you only download part of the video. You would delete the files in the playlist that you don't want to play. For example, you might leave only 500 files in a playlist. Then you'd cat the ffmpeg output files together with ffmpeg. I tested this method awhile back and it works perfectly and it's the way I'll be doing it if I can't figure out a way to download each segment individually.
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Just registered to say: Wow, that worked for me. I had to learn a bit about m3u syntax first in order to know exactly what to truncate in the modified m3u8 file, but after that it was smooth sailing. Saved the modified m3u8 to my hard drive and opened it in ffmpeg which started saving it right away. I'd previously used -ss and ffmpeg would go through the entire playlist before saving what I wanted, and by that time the link expired. Editing m3u8 is the way to go with really long videos.
Thanks again!