Can't get past commercial breaks on ESPN.com streams
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mhavoc
Sep 22, 2021, 10:59:25 AM9/22/21
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Hi there... thanks for all your work on this add-in and I have purchased a license to support you. I am having troubles on ESPN video streams where I can only play the first section of a stream and it seems to stop on the first commercial break. ESPN must be doing some strange URL juggling and I wondered if you could look into it. I am happy to give you my Xfinity login so you can attempt to recreate the issue OR Im happy to do deeper debugging for you. I am a dev so Im somewhat fluent in the browser console and inspectors. Your plugin is obfuscated so I cant do much deeper exploring.
I have tried this in both Chrome and Firefox with both 7.6.0.0 in Chrome and 7.6.3a1 in Firefox... both have the same behavior. I attemped to skip past each 'video break' in the page and then 're-analyze' but the plugin always downloads from the beginning and then stops at the first commercial break.
My debug console is attached, however it doesn't show much...
thank you.. LMK if you want me to do any further testing since that URL is probably requiring a TV Provider login.
Wild Willy
Sep 22, 2021, 10:41:19 PM9/22/21
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You'll want to take a look at this thread:
https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/S4K1QgvT-K4
https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/S4K1QgvT-K4
jcv...@gmail.com
Sep 23, 2021, 1:35:38 AM9/23/21
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this issue is being investigated, there will be a new release soon.
jerome
mhavoc
Sep 23, 2021, 11:51:39 AM9/23/21
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Hi WW.... yeah, I saw your thread for sure but didn't want to hijack it, even tho we are in the same boat... wanted to keep them seperate in case they were slightly different on the technical side. Appreciate it!
mhavoc
Sep 23, 2021, 11:53:39 AM9/23/21
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jerome... I suspected that mig is on this.. Im sure ESPN isn't making this *easy* either so I appreciate the time. I wanted to mostly throw my name out there for someone that would actively test dev code if needed since Im a dev too (but not in this area, so Im not looking to heist or anything). thank you!
Wild Willy
Sep 24, 2021, 12:01:52 AM9/24/21
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Hijack a thread? That is not possible here. We're not having political debates or
religious polemics. This is a technical forum. There are no egos here. If your comment
appears related, post in an existing thread. There's already quite a proliferation of
threads here, making it hard enough to search. If you can possibly piggyback something,
do so.
religious polemics. This is a technical forum. There are no egos here. If your comment
appears related, post in an existing thread. There's already quite a proliferation of
threads here, making it hard enough to search. If you can possibly piggyback something,
do so.
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