Aria2c M3u8 -

grep -E "\.ts$" playlist.m3u8 > segments.txt aria2c -i segments.txt -x 16 -s 16 -j 16

file is essentially a "map" or playlist. It contains links to hundreds of tiny video chunks (usually Downloads the text file itself. What you need: aria2c m3u8

#EXTM3U #EXTINF:10.0, https://cdn.example.com/segment1.ts #EXTINF:10.0, https://cdn.example.com/segment2.ts ... grep -E "\

. This gives you the intelligence of a stream parser with the raw speed of grep -E "\.ts$" playlist.m3u8 &gt

curl -s "https://example.com/stream.m3u8" | grep -E "\.ts" | aria2c -x 16 -j 16 -i -

You can skip saving ts_urls.txt if the m3u8 is directly accessible: