>30 second outage causes full exit while in live record mode

Author: something119Created Jul 30, 2026Updated Jul 30, 2026

I’m trying to use live record mode to archive an ongoing HLS fMP4 livestream, specifically the Wacken Open Air stream from MagentaMusik.

Everything was working fine until a couple of minutes ago, when my power briefly flashed, causing an internet outage that lasted less than 30 seconds. When the outage happened, the two instances of N_m3u8DL-RE I had running each retryed about 10 times over the course of roughly 5 seconds before exiting completely. Because of that i had to manually restart both recordings and ended up with over 2 minutes of missing data in both. It’s especially annoying because I think the missing segments would’ve been recoverable in that short amount of time if the retries had continued.

I was using a basic command:

N_m3u8DL-RE "URL"

I expected the retries to last longer, especially since the program said it was running in live record mode. I guess thats my fault and i’m fairly new to this.

Is it possible to make a live recording command that keeps retrying until i tell it to stop?