The video in is using HLS, .m3u8 file, direct link is (from the iframe src).

However, youtube-dl couldn't read from the .m3u8 file I downloaded from blob in chrome.

And using ffmpeg method (which usually works) to download from the .m3u8 file failed because the first segment of the file is a URL redirect

Error when loading first segment '
2b0bdf87-656f-4880-8357-f7fd6329b2f8.m3u8: Invalid data found when processing input

Somebody asked the same question in reddit some days ago: link

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