en I Vibe-Coded an m3u8-to-mp4 Converter in a Few Hours, Hit #1 on Google, Then Watched the Clones Eat My Lunch The m3u8 problem has been the same for a decade. You find a video online. You want to keep it. You dig into the network tab. You get… a .m3u8 file. Which is not a video. It's a text file — a playlist — pointing at dozens or hundreds of
