[jkg]

Edit: Nevermind what I said before. It seems like yahoo might've changed things a little bit with their streams as they air live, where the URLs are longer and can't have the filenames manually changed to download a different segment or switch the quality number. Then when it goes to a looped replay and it's no longer live, the URLs go back to the much-shorter URLs that can be manually changed and batch-downloaded. Does anyone know what I'm referring to? I realize that ffmpeg and livestreamer both work with m3u8 files regardless, live or replay, but I'm talking about downloading the individual .ts segments.

I don't remember it being like that before, even as recently as last month. When it aired live, the URLs were the same no matter what, always the short format, which can be batch-downloaded by simply adjusting the numbers in the filename. That no longer seems to be the case when it's playing live, or even during the beginning of the first replay. I think maybe after midnight EST is when the URLs change back to the short format. Another difference to prove I'm not crazy.. when the URLs are the longer format, the segments are roughly 8 seconds each, instead of 10 seconds per segment when the URLs are shorter. Therefore, the segment filesizes are also different. The 10 second ones average about 7.5 MB per segment at the highest 720p setting, while the 8 second ones are less than 6 MB per segment.

If anyone else has noticed this about the streams as they air live or knows what I'm referring to, I was wondering if it's possible to batch-download the individual segments when they have the longer URLs / shorter segment size. I was also wondering how long it's been like this because I thought it used to always be the same whether the stream was live or not. Thanks a lot in advance for any help.