One of the issues is that the stream I have as an example is geo-restricted to A...

One of the issues is that the stream I have as an example is geo-restricted to Australia.

youtube-dl seems to find the stream URL okay, but then prints ffmpeg errors:

https://github.com/selsta/hlsdl should be able to do it in theory, but it looks like WideVine DRM is involved.

Someone has a Kodi plugin to make it work but Kodi doesn't support recording of any kind (?)