Hi,
first you need to find the m3u8 file/s and for your site you can use web console of Firefox or any other browser who has such tools too.If you do use FF then you can choose the tools from menu or press strg+shift+k keys together and now it does open in your tab.Now load the site of your stream xy and you can see the traffic of all what was requested.On the right side you see a search mask where you can enter m3u8 to get only that to see on the left side now.
If you did copy the link (optional with paramters if necessary) then you can use it with stream tools like Livestreamer or FFmpeg etc to play / record them.For this tool you also need to know & use specific parameters so just check the docs of the tool/s you want to use.
Here a example in my case of that site.
Livestreamer: play/s or rec
Code:
livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://dittotv.live-s.cdn.bitgravity.com/cdn-live/_definst_/dittotv/secure/zee_tv_hd_Web.smil/playlist.m3u8?e=1442436568&a=DE&h=4a14717e99cd159ae4536860a9fa68b0" best
livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://dittotv.live-s.cdn.bitgravity.com/cdn-live/_definst_/dittotv/secure/zee_tv_hd_Web.smil/playlist.m3u8?e=1442436568&a=DE&h=4a14717e99cd159ae4536860a9fa68b0" best --player C:\Programme\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe
livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://dittotv.live-s.cdn.bitgravity.com/cdn-live/_definst_/dittotv/secure/zee_tv_hd_Web.smil/playlist.m3u8?e=1442436568&a=DE&h=4a14717e99cd159ae4536860a9fa68b0" best -o outputA123.flv
FFmpeg: play or rec
Code:
ffmpeg -i "http://dittotv.live-s.cdn.bitgravity.com/cdn-live/_definst_/dittotv/secure/zee_tv_hd_Web.smil/playlist.m3u8?e=1442436568&a=DE&h=4a14717e99cd159ae4536860a9fa68b0" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f mpegts - | C:\Programme\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe -
ffmpeg -i "http://dittotv.live-s.cdn.bitgravity.com/cdn-live/_definst_/dittotv/secure/zee_tv_hd_Web.smil/playlist.m3u8?e=1442436568&a=DE&h=4a14717e99cd159ae4536860a9fa68b0" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f mpegts -c copy output.flv
That are some basic paramters you can use to play or rec the stream.If you have installed VLC player on your system then you don't need to use a extra player path command for LS just if you wanna use any other player etc.Just try a little and make some notes if you got problems to keep this in your head (as me) if later should use many different CMD tools.
You can also spend a lot time to read the entire rtmpdump topic (others too) to find many examples etc.
PS: We all were noobs too of course.
greetz