You can streamline this process by creating a script that utilizes the BC Playback API to retrieve the HLS/DASH CDN URL and ffmpeg to download the content.

For DASH streams:

ffmpeg -i "http://example.com/path/to/video-file.mpd" -c copy output.mpd

For HLS streams:

ffmpeg -i "http://example.com/path/to/video-file.m3u8" -c copy output.ts

Note that the .m3u8 file is a playlist and does not contain the media content itself. Instead, it references .ts segments. ffmpeg can be used to fetch these segments and combine them into a single file if needed.

Hi @Denis Khoo,

Thank you for sharing your questions on Bright Spot!

I would like to complement the information that @Andy Hartono shared above.

I would like to share the following documentation: https://apis.support.brightcove.com/playback/references/reference_v2.html#tag/Videos/operation/Get_Video_by_ID_or_Reference_ID 

In it you will find how to download HLS and DASH formats from your account through API call using the playback API. 

After calling /playback/v1/accounts/{{account_id}}/videos/{{video_id}} it will get a list of metadata, look for the “Sources” in the response, and you will find downloadable URL's of the HLS and DASH content if applicable.

Happy to help!