How to download m3u8 format media file in Android

Question

I need to parse an m3u8 media file, which is a playlist, and download the actual media content.
As per my understanding, the following are the process involved:

• Parse the m3u8 file and get the '.TS' chunks
• Once all the chunks has been retrieved, merge as a single file
• Convert the merged TS file to mp4 format.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any lib/module to perform the above-mentioned steps. Can anyone provide a better approach or working sample to process and download the m3u8 file?

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

You got the steps correct. But this will include a huge effort to implement on your own. Better to go for some available libraries.

I got a great one here with sample project: https://github.com/nichucs/ffmpeg-android-java-master Original repo: http://writingminds.github.io/ffmpeg-android-java/