FFMPEG mp4 from http live streaming m3u8 file?

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thiago.adriano26 picture thiago.adriano26 · Sep 11, 2015 · Viewed 138.5k times · Source

How Can I extract mp4 from http live streaming m3u8 file? I Tried this command below:

ffmpeg -i {input file} -f rawvideo -bsf h264_mp4toannexb -vcodec copy out.mp4

I took this error:

[NULL @ 0000000002f07060] Packet header is not contained in global extradata, corrupted stream or invalid MP4/AVCC bitstream Failed to open bitstream filter h264_mp4toannexb for stream 0 with codec copy: I

Answer

aergistal picture aergistal · Sep 12, 2015

Your command is completely incorrect. The output format is not rawvideo and you don't need the bitstream filter h264_mp4toannexb which is used when you want to convert the h264 contained in an mp4 to the Annex B format used by MPEG-TS for example. What you want to use instead is the aac_adtstoasc for the AAC streams.

ffmpeg -i http://.../playlist.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4

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