When the user clicks on the toolbar button, a popup appears asking the user to pick a video quality and then the downloading begins. If a tab has a live stream, the toolbar button is colorful which means that at least one stream is available for download. Note that since this extension monitors web requests, the user needs to refresh a tab that plays in HLS once after installation for the extension to detect the stream. To prevent having a large memory footprint, the extension temporarily stores each segment into the internal storage and when all segments are downloaded, the chunks are merged. In case that the server only has a single stream URL, and it supports range downloading in bytes format, the extension uses multiple threads to download different ranges. Internally this extension downloads up to 5 streams simultaneously to increase the downloading speed and its stability. This extension is a tool to capture live stream manifest file and offer the user to pick a quality from what the server offers and then download the user-selected quality to the local disk. What is the 'Live Stream Downloader' extension and how does it work? Writes directly to the disk (version > 0.2.0).Uses multiple threading to get all segments.Offers choosing between different stream qualities.Downloads HLS streams to the local drive.

Also to prevent having a large memory footprint, the extension uses its internal disk to keep file segments before merging them when all segments are ready. This extension uses multiple threading for fetching large files which improve the stability and speed of the internal downloader. If in the middle of the downloading operation, the user decides to abort the job, it is possible to click the toolbar button once or close the tab for the job to get aborted. The extension's toolbar button is colorful when there is a stream for the currently active tab. The extension listens for M3U8 manifest requests and if the manifest offers playlists then the user can select between different stream qualities and download that stream into the local disk.

'Live Stream Downloader' add-on detects websites that use HLS streaming format for their live streamings and offers to download these streams to the user's local drive.

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