How Can I convet an m3u8 video to MP4? The only method that worked was with VLCbut the problem is that to convert the video you have to watch it in its entirety and that sucks for long videos, so I wanted to know another way.
As we know M3u8 is not a video format, it’s a playlist format. So how we can convert M3U8 to MP4 with VLC or other tools easily? Here we have some tips to share with you.
Part I. Convert M3U8 to MP4 with VLC Media Player
1. Convert M3U8 to MP4 with VLC
VLC is a free and open-source multimedia player and converter for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android. You can use VLC Media Player as your free M3U8 to MP4 video converter. Here’re the detailed steps to change the file extension from .m3u8 to .mp4.
Step 1.Download VLC from videolan org website. Install and run the VLC M3U8 to MP4 converter.
Step 2.Click the “Media” button on the top bar, and you can click the “Open Network Stream” button in the list.
Step 3.In the “Network” tab, paste your M3U8 link. In the bottom, click the down arrow at the bottom to replace the “Convert” button with the “Play” button. Finnaly, you can click the “Play” button to move on.
Step 4.Unfold the “Profile” list, set the output format as “Video — H.264 + MP3 (MP4)”.
Step 5.Click the “Start” button to convert M3U8 to MP4 with VLC.
Part 2. Convert M3U8 to MP4 with FFmpeg
FFmpeg is also a good free M3U8 to MP4 converter for tech-savvy users. You can convert M3U8 to MP4 on Windows, Mac, and Linux via command lines quickly.
Step 1.Open FFmpeg and Command Prompt (Admin)/PowerShell on your computer.
Step 2.Execute ffmpeg -i http://.../playlist.M3U8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.MP4. (You need to replace http://.../playlist.M3U8 with your M3U8 playlist URL manually. Moreover, you can change output to set a file M3U8 to MP4 file name.)
Step 3.Once you execute the M3U8 to MP4 command line, FFmpeg will automatically start downloading M3U8 to MP4 video.
Step 4.Find your converted M3U8 MP4 video in the FFmpeg destination folder.
Part 3. Convert M3U8 to MP4 with DumboFab Video Converter
DumboFab Video Converter is an easy-to-use, powerful yet brilliant M3U8 to MP4 converter for Windows and Mac. No matter it is a M3U8 streamed video or a M3U8 broadcasting video stored in a .m3u8 link, this program always can read and download the video sources from any website in a click. After downloading, it can fast convert M3U8 to MP4 (H.264/H.265) with ultra-fast encoding speed while keeping the original quality.
Besides M3U8 to MP4, DumboFab Video Converter also supports converting any videos to 500+ preset profiles, including MOV, FLV, MKV, AVI, WMV, HEVC, H.264, iPhone iPad, Android, HDTV, Xbox, PS5 and more. Moreover, it comes with a bulit-in editor which can help you cut, crop, rotate, add subtitles, add watermark to the result videos. What’s more, it makes full use of CPU and GPU, boosting video conversion speed to 30x real-time faster on computers configured with both QSV-allowed Intel processor and CUDA/NVENC-enabled NVIDIA GPU.
Let’s say you have an entire M3U8 file, you will find that it contains multiple TS video clips, each lasting a few seconds. To watch a continuous video without interruptions, you should combine all the TS video clip into a MP4 file. This M3U8 to MP4 converter can help you open and merge great amounts of TS clips to one video without hassle.
How to Convert M3U8 to MP4 on Windows 11/10/8/7 and macOS
Step 1. Download and load the M3U8 file
Install and launch DumboFab Video Converter. Drag and drop the M3U8 file to the program. A M3U8 file loading window will pop up, it will then automatically grab the copied URL of your M3U8 file and starts downloading it.
Note: The video loading (or downloading) time from the M3U8 file depends on the video length and the broadband speed.
Step 2. Select MP4 as the output file
After loading, click Profile and select MP4 or HEVC MP4 from Common Video category as the output format. If you want to convert M3U8 to MP4 for iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Google Nexus, etc., you can browse to find any video preset as the output format.
For advanced functions
1. Click the Edit button to open the Video Editor window to achieve editing M3U8 file like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
2. Click the Settings button to open the Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.
3. Click the Settings You can tick the box “Merge all videos into one file” to merge multiple TS clips in your M3U8 folder into one MP4 video.
Step 3. Begin conversion
Choose an output folder for your converted video. Once everything done, you can hit the Convert button, the process of converting M3U8 to MP4 will begin in earnest and it will be very fast.
