chandler-stimson / live-stream-downloader

Download M3U8 live streams to the local disk
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Add support for famous open source DownloadHelper CoApp parser and Flybird-downloader to counter the worrying trend of the majority of streaming platforms to only offer HD/1080p quality which has a astonishing weight and its disastrous consequences on web browsers which due to WebAssembly's limitations: only videos up to 2GB can be processed and downloaded #91

Open trimechee opened 1 month ago

trimechee commented 1 month ago

Hello, of course we don't like to install and use external programs to download videos

because it can be complicated to add parameters, command lines...... and especially several external downloader m3u8 mpd parsers are unfortunately not compatible with my old windows 7 32 bits :(

so currently, I can't use these external downloaders in my laptopn windows 7 OS 32 bits,

but I hope to get a new modern laptop and I see the worrying trend of the majority of streaming platforms

to only offer HD/1080p quality which have a mind-boggling weight and its disastrous consequences on web browsers

which due to WebAssembly's limitations: only videos up to 2GB can be processed, like my favorite streaming site voiranime which in the past, offered 3 streaming platforms that have a reasonable standard SD video quality that is fast to download, but currently there is

only one streaming platform that offers quality standard 480p i.e. a 24-minute anime episode weighs 100 MB,

and maybe this platform will no longer offer SD quality and the weight of the videos will become even bigger with 1080p quality by default or 4k as a single video quality and the extension or the web browser can no longer download the video because their weight exceeds 2Gb,

in view of this future nightmare, we hope please that the extension will continue to offer us as usual the possibility of downloading videos without the need for an external program and will also add compatibility with new awesome external m3u8 mpd parsers that can download large files and bypass the worrying limit of 2GB per video,

i.e. the user when he installs the extension, he will see a pop-up window giving him the choice:

either download the videos normally without external parser, or download the videos with an external parser and the extension will take care of downloading and installing the external parser automatically so it will be a transparent and easy process for most non-expert users please!

the famous extension Video DownloadHelper

uses an open source external downloader parser : DownloadHelper CoApp to download some complicated videos, it is an open source external parser so maybe it will be a good idea to add support for this external downloader

to solve some possible problems to download large videos in the future :

https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/

and the good news, DownloadHelper CoApp is one of the few m3u8 mpd parsers to have a 32-bit version for windows 7 os so DownloadHelper CoApp will be compatible with old hardware unlike other m3u8 parsers that I will mention later!

and also please add the compatibility with this outstanding tool Flybird-downloader which is a video downloader tool that can download m3u8 videos, mpd videos, mp4 videos and resume downloading large files:

https://github.com/youwen21/flybird-m3u8downloader

and also the magnificent N_m3u8DL-RE which is

cross-platform, modern and powerful stream downloader for MPD/M3U8/ISM:

https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-RE

and ffmpeg online for online transcod or merge audio/video operations:

https://ffmpeg.bmmmd.com/

Thanks a lot!