How To Download TS Stream Video As .MP4

Dec 10, 2017

Get the TS Stream Video URL, which might look something like the following

Notice the URLs are similar except a running rumber, which usually represent the segment/chunk/part number in sequence.

Below is a python script which download all the segment/chunk/part. The script use grequests to allow faster simultenous download.

import osimport requestsimport grequests# name of the videoname = 'ABC'# .ts URL of the video, replace segment number with {0}source_url = 'http://example.com/stream/ABC.mp4/seg-{0}.ts'if not os.path.exists(name):    os.makedirs(name)keys = []urls = []for x in range(1,2000):    filename = '{0}/{1:04d}.ts'.format(name, x)    if os.path.isfile(filename):        print 'skip', x        continue    urls.append(source_url.format(x))    keys.append(x)    # allow 6 simultenous download    if len(urls) == 6:        rs = (grequests.get(u) for u in urls)        results = grequests.map(rs)        for key, _result in enumerate(results):            filename = '{0}/{1:03d}.ts'.format(name, keys[key])            print urls[key], _result.status_code            if _result.status_code == 200:                with open(filename, 'wb') as f:                    f.write(_result.content)            else:                # if error assume no more segment, or you can run this script again to make sure it's a permanent error                exit()        urls = []        keys = []

After all the .ts files are downloaded, run the following command to merge all the .ts files.

cat ABC/*.ts > ABC.ts

Install ffmpeg.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-mediasudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Run the following ffmpeg command to convert .ts to .mp4.

ffmpeg -i ABC.ts -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -acodec copy -vcodec copy ABC.mp4

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