Can FoxDL download an HLS (m3u8) stream?
Yes. HLS streams are fetched segment by segment and remuxed into a single MP4, so what lands in your library is a normal file you can play, move or share — not a folder of .ts fragments that only a specialist player understands.
Reviewed 30 July 2026
An HLS stream is a playlist pointing at hundreds of small segments. Downloading it usefully means fetching every segment and putting the pieces back together, which is the step most download tools skip.
FoxDL remuxes rather than re-encodes: the video and audio data are copied into an MP4 container untouched. Nothing is re-compressed, so there is no quality loss and the job takes seconds rather than the many minutes a conversion would.
Where a stream is protected by DRM, it stays protected — FoxDL does not decrypt anything, and that is deliberate.