beyond live - streams

notes

• last tested march 2026
• this method is still a work in progress and future changes to beyond live's api/backend may cause it to stop working
• streams can only be ripped while they are live

requirements

• ffmpeg
• n-m3u8dl-re
• mp4decrypt
• python
• beyondlive.py
• Get-cookies.txt-LOCALLY
• UserAgent-Switcher
• vineless
• a valid concert ticket

download

1. open your browser and enable vineless
2. if you aren't on windows+edge, open UserAgent-Switcher and set your user agent to the latest windows+edge string
3. navigate to beyondlive.com and enter the concert venue
4. take note of the three digit number id in the page url
5. open Get-cookies.txt-LOCALLY and export your beyond live cookies
6. open vineless, locate the page url in the keys section and click + to expand the entry
7. copy the manifest url and key
8. install the required module

pip install requests

9. run beyondlive.py with the following options

python beyondlive.py --mpd <url> --key <key> --id <id> --cookies <cookies_file>

10. when the stream has finished, use ctrl+c to end the script

post process

at this point you should have all the segments downloaded, split up into a large number of directories. these segments now have to be concatenated and merged to become a playable file.

1. make directories for the video and audio streams

mkdir vid aud

2. copy the init files into their respective directories

cp beyondlive_*_001/0_*/_init_dec.mp4 vid
cp beyondlive_*_001/1_*/_init_dec.mp4 aud

3. copy the segments into their respective directories, skipping over any duplicates

find . -type d -name '0_*' | sort | while read -r f; do cp --update=none "$f"/*.m4s vid; done
find . -type d -name '1_*' | sort | while read -r f; do cp --update=none "$f"/*.m4s aud; done

4. concatenate the segments onto the init file

cat vid/*.m4s >> vid/_init_dec.mp4
cat aud/*.m4s >> aud/_init_dec.mp4

5. merge the streams

ffmpeg -i vid/_init_dec.mp4 -i aud/_init_dec.mp4 -c copy merge.mp4

post process on windows

windows users will have to use the powershell equivalents of the above commands in order to post process the segments.

1. make directories for the video and audio streams

mkdir vid aud

2. copy the init files into their respective directories

Get-ChildItem beyondlive_*_001/0_*/_init_dec.mp4 | Copy-Item -Destination vid
Get-ChildItem beyondlive_*_001/1_*/_init_dec.mp4 | Copy-Item -Destination aud

3. copy the segments into their respective directories, skipping over any duplicates

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory -Filter '0_*' | Sort-Object Name | ForEach-Object { Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Filter '*.m4s' } | Copy-Item -Destination vid -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory -Filter '1_*' | Sort-Object Name | ForEach-Object { Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Filter '*.m4s' } | Copy-Item -Destination aud -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

4. concatenate the segments onto the init file

Get-ChildItem vid/*.m4s | Sort-Object Name | ForEach-Object { [System.IO.File]::AppendAllBytes('vid/_init_dec.mp4', [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($_.FullName)) }
Get-ChildItem aud/*.m4s | Sort-Object Name | ForEach-Object { [System.IO.File]::AppendAllBytes('aud/_init_dec.mp4', [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($_.FullName)) }

5. merge the streams

ffmpeg -i vid/_init_dec.mp4 -i aud/_init_dec.mp4 -c copy merge.mp4

note: I don't use windows so these commands are currently untested.

subtitles

although subtitles will be downloaded and segments can be merged with the same method used for audio and video, I have not yet found a reliable way of converting them to a standard format such as srt.