M3U8格式视频下载

M3U8是一种流媒体，现多用于视频播放。当把m3u8格式视频的url下载下来用文本打开会发现其实只是一段字符串，包含了很多视频小片段的地址，那么怎么样把整个视频下载下来用于本地播放呢？

首先，m3u8展开后的字符串类似这样：

 #EXTM3U
 #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:30
 #EXT-X-VERSION:2
 #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
 #EXTINF:10,
 http://f.youku.com/player/getMpegtsPath/st/flv/fileid/03000201004F4BC6AFD0C202E26EEEB41666A0-C93C-D6C9-9FFA-33424A776707/ipad0_0.ts?KM=14eb49fe4969126c6&start=0&end=10&ts=10&html5=1&seg_no=0&seg_time=0
 #EXTINF:20,
 http://f.youku.com/player/getMpegtsPath/st/flv/fileid/03000201004F4BC6AFD0C202E26EEEB41666A0-C93C-D6C9-9FFA-33424A776707/ipad0_1.ts?KM=14eb49fe4969126c6&start=10&end=30&ts=20&html5=1&seg_no=1&seg_time=0
 #EXTINF:20,
 http://f.youku.com/player/getMpegtsPath/st/flv/fileid/03000201004F4BC6AFD0C202E26EEEB41666A0-C93C-D6C9-9FFA-33424A776707/ipad0_2.ts?KM=14eb49fe4969126c6&start=30&end=50&ts=20&html5=1&seg_no=2&seg_time=0
 #EXTINF:20,
 http://f.youku.com/player/getMpegtsPath/st/flv/fileid/03000201004F4BC6AFD0C202E26EEEB41666A0-C93C-D6C9-9FFA-33424A776707/ipad0_3.ts?KM=14eb49fe4969126c6&start=50&end=70&ts=20&html5=1&seg_no=3&seg_time=0
 #EXTINF:24,
 http://f.youku.com/player/getMpegtsPath/st/flv/fileid/03000201004F4BC6AFD0C202E26EEEB41666A0-C93C-D6C9-9FFA-33424A776707/ipad0_4.ts?KM=14eb49fe4969126c6&start=70&end=98&ts=24&html5=1&seg_no=4&seg_time=0
 #EXT-X-ENDLIST

在每一行#EXTINF:下面的网址就是一个个ts文件的地址，实际去下载的是这些小片段。而在#EXTINF:后面的数字代表的是这个ts文件所包含视频的时长。

所以第一步要解析这个m3u8的url，将其中所有ts文件的下载地址记录下来：

NSString *data = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url usedEncoding:&encoding error:&error];
NSMutableArray *segments = [NSMutableArray array];
NSRange segmentRange = [remainData rangeOfString:@"#EXTINF:"];
NSInteger segmentIndex = 0;
NSInteger totalSeconds = 0;
while (segmentRange.location != NSNotFound) {
    SCM3U8SegmentInfo *segment = [[SCM3U8SegmentInfo alloc] init];
    //读取片段时长
    NSRange commaRange = [remainData rangeOfString:@","];
    NSString *value = [remainData substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(segmentRange.location + [@"#EXTINF:" length], commaRange.location -(segmentRange.location + [@"#EXTINF:" length]))];
    segment.duration = [value intValue];
    totalSeconds+=segment.duration;
    remainData = [remainData substringFromIndex:commaRange.location];
    //读取片段url
    NSRange linkRangeBegin = [remainData rangeOfString:@"http"];
    NSRange linkRangeEnd = [remainData rangeOfString:@"#"];
    NSString *linkurl = [remainData substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(linkRangeBegin.location, linkRangeEnd.location - linkRangeBegin.location)];
    segment.url = linkurl;
    segment.index = segmentIndex;
    //
    segmentIndex++;
    [segments addObject:segment];
    remainData = [remainData substringFromIndex:linkRangeEnd.location];
    segmentRange = [remainData rangeOfString:@"#EXTINF:"];
}

然后得到了这些文件的地址后，就可以去下载了。下载方法有很多，可以用NSURLConnection，NSURLSession，ASIHTTPRequest，AFNetworking等。注意因为一个视频包含很多个小的ts文件，所以为了便于管理，建议1 是将这些文件按索引号分别命名为id0.ts,id1.ts,id2.ts等，2 是按顺序去下载这些小片段，且同一时间只下载一个，当一个下载完成后，再去下载下一个。

接着当所有这些ts文件下载完成后，需要将它们在本地拼接成一个新的m3u8文件：

NSString *pathPrefix = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask,YES) objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *saveTo = [[pathPrefix stringByAppendingPathComponent:kPathDownload] stringByAppendingPathComponent:self.vid];
NSString *fullPath = [saveTo stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"movie.m3u8"];
//创建文件头部
NSString* head = @"#EXTM3U\n#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:30\n#EXT-X-VERSION:2\n#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY\n";
NSString* segmentPrefix = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://127.0.0.1:54321/%@/",self.vid];
NSInteger count = [self.segmentList.segments count];
//填充片段数据
for(int i = 0;i<count;i++)
{
    NSString *filename = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"id%d.ts",i];
    SCM3U8SegmentInfo *segInfo = [self.segmentList getSegmentWithIndex:i];
    NSString *length = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"#EXTINF:%ld,\n",(long)segInfo.duration];
    NSString *url = [segmentPrefix stringByAppendingString:filename];
    head = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@\n",head,length,url];
}
//创建尾部
NSString* end = @"#EXT-X-ENDLIST";
head = [head stringByAppendingString:end];
NSMutableData *writer = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];
[writer appendData:[head dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[writer writeToFile:fullPath atomically:YES];

其中http://127.0.0.1是随便写的，只要和播放时调用的一致即可。拼成后本地的m3u8文件用文本打开类似如下

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:30
#EXT-X-VERSION:2
#EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id0.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id1.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id2.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id3.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id4.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id5.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id6.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id7.ts
#EXTINF:6,
http://127.0.0.1:54321/TTT/id8.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST

最后由于m3u8只支持http协议的远程播放，所以必须在应用程序里搭建一个服务器。好消息是早就有开源库CocoaHTTPServer做到了这一点

- (void)setHttpServer
{
    _httpServer = [[HTTPServer alloc] init];
    [_httpServer setType:@"_http._tcp."];
    [_httpServer setPort:54321];
    NSString *pathPrefix = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask,YES) objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString *webPath = [pathPrefix stringByAppendingPathComponent:kPathDownload];
    NSLog(@"Setting document root: %@", webPath);
    [_httpServer setDocumentRoot:webPath];
    NSError *error;
    if(![_httpServer start:&error])
    {
        NSLog(@"Error starting HTTP Server: %@", error);
    }
}

综上，将类似@”http://127.0.0.1:54321/%@/movie.m3u8“这样的地址传给你的播放器就可以实现本地播放了。

完整项目地址为 https://github.com/wangqi211/M3U8VideoDownloadDemo