Video DownloadHelper 7.7.0a1 beta for Firefox (YouTube fix)

[mig]

We have just released a new version of Video DownloadHelper (VDH) which partially addresses the YouTube issues that began in early June.

This initial fix has some limitations:

• Bulk downloading is not currently supported
• Embedded YouTube videos may not be detected
• Download options for video qualities above 1080p are not available
• Videos of type "Short" are not detected

If you have already been using a VDH/Firefox beta version, it should update automatically. If not, you can install or update it from the following link: https://www.downloadhelper.net/firefox/betas

Please use this thread to report any issues you encounter that are not listed above.

[Wild Willy]

I posted the following before you opened this thread:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/S9BPzSdwtPw/m/k5WEvblDAgAJ

[mjs]

I had a quick look at the beta, appears it can properly detect live streams instead of filling the menu with hundreds of entries.

Some of the lower resolutions don't show.

[Wild Willy]

Come to think of it, what else is new in this beta besides a first pass at fixing YouTube support?

[mig]

Regarding the lower resolutions, did you try to change the "Max variants" parameter  in the VDH settings ? Default is 6 and since variants are sorted by quality, only the top ones appear.

[mig]

Nothing except the side effects of the new YouTube download method we now use, like having more variant choices.

However, you should soon see new updates very soon. In fact we hesitated to put those changes in the new beta, but we preferred focusing on the youtube case and avoid mixing with newly introduced code.

[Wild Willy]

I've had my max variants set at 128 for a long time now.  I actually didn't realize I had done that until you mentioned it here & I went to check.  But I haven't encountered any livestreams yet with this release.  Plus, my favorite livestreams (golf) went behind DRM protection a few months ago & I haven't been able to record livestreams with VDH since then.  It's ironic that I got you to make some changes in VDH for livestreams & now I'm not able to take advantage of them.

If you held off on other changes in order to limit it to YouTube changes, you should probably wait at least a month before you add more things.  Give people a chance to get up to the latest beta & collect some history before you mix things up with yet more changes.  Your reasoning for holding off on more changes for now still applies & it should tell you you should wait.

[mjs]

When l say live streams, l mean YouTube live streams. I hope there wasn't any confusion.

[Mike]

Updated automatically as you said, but doesn't work.

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[Wild Willy]

Michel, I asked questions in that post I referred to above.  Please answer them.  Here or there, I don't care.

[Alan Swithenbank]

For me it appears to work, with the 1/2 video length download time, and
does a conversion, but, ultimately doesn't save files.

Alan Swithenbank

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Mike wrote:

> Updated automatically as you said, but doesn't work.
>

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 4:02?AM mig <michel.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have just released a new version of Video DownloadHelper (VDH) which partially addresses the YouTube
> issues that began in early June.
>
> This initial fix has some limitations:
>

> * Bulk downloading is not currently supported
> * Embedded YouTube videos may not be detected
> * Download options for video qualities above 1080p are not available
> * Videos of type "Short" are not detected

>
> If you have already been using a VDH/Firefox beta version, it should update automatically. If not, you can install
> or update it from the following link: https://www.downloadhelper.net/firefox/betas
>
> Please use this thread to report any issues you encounter that are not listed above.
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[Wild Willy]

Michel, I wish you would go over to this thread & answer my questions.

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/S9BPzSdwtPw

And speaking of that thread, I found something on which VDH recognized nothing & I had to
use the technique described over there. I suppose before I continue, I should follow my
own advice & say this:

Windows 7 64-bit, Firefox 114.0.2 64-bit, licensed VDH 7.7.0a1 beta, CoApp 1.6.3

The video that VDH fails to recognize is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrjotlL-r0I

For anybody else posting here, that's how you're supposed to post here. Provide a proper
problem report. Don't just say, "It didn't work for me." Tell us your environment &
give examples. You are not helping in the slightest by just saying it's not working.
That isn't true anyway. I've used it on several things & it works just fine. But Michel
has said it's still a work in progress & you will be helping if you post a proper problem
report. Look at what I just posted. That's a proper problem report. Do your posts just
like that.

I'm astonished at this failure of VDH because this video is available in only 2
resolutions, & those are the 2 lowest resolutions you commonly find elsewhere on YouTube.
Multiple reloads of the page & launching playback on the page still left the VDH menu
completely empty.

I could not use my player json technique from the other thread because I had reloaded the
YouTube page several times trying to get VDH to recognize the video. So I fell back to
my log_event technique. That yielded both a video mp4 & an audio mp4. That was after I
used the \\u0026 trick I describe in that other thread.

For the video track (obtained using the technique in the other thread), VDH actually
recognized something. So I launched the download in VDH. But it was getting really
putrid download speed, worse than normal for YouTube. I didn't time it but I think the
download lasted much longer than half the 8:19 of this clip. While that VDH download was
still in progress, I popped up the context menu on the video & executed Save Video As...
Firefox downloaded the video in about 20 seconds. The VDH download continued for a
couple of minutes after the Firefox download completed. Michel, you need to look into
this. Firefox is eating your lunch. You are doing something that causes YouTube to
throttle VDH downloads. Firefox does something different & it is not subject to the same
throttling. I think Firefox downloads are still throttled but they are not throttled as
heavily as VDH downloads are. You need to look into this.

For the audio track, VDH recognized nothing. The VDH menu remained empty even after I
launched playback of the audio track. But Save Audio As... in Firefox ran in maybe 3
seconds, tops.

Playing the separate video & audio tracks synchronously in VLC worked flawlessly. The
whole video played, with audio, without a hitch, albeit at the painfully low resolution
that was the best on offer for this one.

[Wray B]

Hi.  

I've had success with the 7.7.0a1 beta for YouTube & Vimeo (which had stopped working sometime after my last previous use, on May 21).  Windows 10 and Firefox, both with recent updates.

I initially only tried DL 640 x 360 and that worked and have since been doing 1280 x 720 with no problem.  I've always done just one at a time.

The vids I wanted are YouTube hosted for online event I purchased through eventbrite.  I did not try to DL via embed on evenbrite page, have been choosing the link for play on YouTube.

Thank you for the fix!