All downloads from xhamster is stuck at 0%
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Jay Cee
Mar 8, 2020, 11:23:06 PM3/8/20
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with progress showing as --downloading... HLS streaming...
download from other sites work smoothly
I have uninstalled and installed the extension. Also reset-ed the settings
This has been happening for past few days
Windows 10
Found companion app: VdhCoApp 1.3.0
Companion app binary: C:\Program Files\net.downloadhelper.coapp\bin\net.downloadhelper.coapp-win-64.exe
Video DownloadHelper
Version 7.3.7
Browser locale: en-US
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Built on Wed Jun 26 2019 15:00:47 GMT+0200 (CEST)
Build options: browser=firefox
jc vdh
Mar 9, 2020, 1:17:05 AM3/9/20
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hi,
no problem to download here.
Do you have other addons or blockers that might interfere? What you
can try is to start a new clean Firefox profile (type about:profiles in
the URL bar then enter) with only VDH to see if it works better.
jerome
Maximus Maximus
Apr 15, 2020, 6:39:43 AM4/15/20
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Hi jerome,
I have a very similar problem, except about *half* of all xhamster videos download without problem, for the other half I experience the same error that Jay Cee does, meaning the download is stuck at 0%.
I haven't been able to find a pattern which videos download, and which ones don't. Sometimes it even happens that video is posted in two parts, by the same uploader, at the same time, and one part will download, the other will not. I don't know if I can post examples here, but if you want, I can give you some.
I haven't been able to find a pattern which videos download, and which ones don't. Sometimes it even happens that video is posted in two parts, by the same uploader, at the same time, and one part will download, the other will not. I don't know if I can post examples here, but if you want, I can give you some.
I already tried your suggestion of creating a new Firefox profile with only VDH active - unfortunately that doesn't help, either. Would be great if you could look into that.
Thanks,
M.M.
menotyou
Apr 24, 2020, 11:54:40 PM4/24/20
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Just noticed this same thing ... most videos from xhamster.com will not download, almost everything gets stuck at 0%!
Sometimes one or two videos will download but it soon hits a point where nothing can get past 0%.
I disabled all addons except VDH and restarted Firefox, no luck.
Checked if the helper was updated and it was.
Checked that the plugin was up to date and it was OK.
Here is one example that never has downloaded, but they all have the same problem...
https://xhamster.com/videos/ibi-makienok-danish-tv-hostess-13701934
I know it can be downloaded because JDownloader can pull the video from the page URL without problems.
VDH has been mostly useless on XHamster for awhile now.
Sometimes one or two videos will download but it soon hits a point where nothing can get past 0%.
I disabled all addons except VDH and restarted Firefox, no luck.
Checked if the helper was updated and it was.
Checked that the plugin was up to date and it was OK.
Here is one example that never has downloaded, but they all have the same problem...
https://xhamster.com/videos/ibi-makienok-danish-tv-hostess-13701934
I know it can be downloaded because JDownloader can pull the video from the page URL without problems.
VDH has been mostly useless on XHamster for awhile now.
Wild Willy
Apr 26, 2020, 7:05:10 AM4/26/20
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If you want to get some background on the techniques I used to figure this out, you need to read this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/8V2cRB-bcK4. I'm not going to rehash what I've explained at length there. Either you're interested or not. Either you're sufficiently technical to do this or not. I'm not going to intervene in this thread further.
I tried your example video https://xhamster.com/videos/ibi-makienok-danish-tv-hostess-13701934 & it wouldn't download for me, either. So here's how I made it download. As in that other thread, I opened the monitor before visiting the page. As in the other thread, the first entry in the monitor was the master manifest. But looking at the manifest, I saw that the first entry looked damaged to me. Maybe it wasn't but that's how I interpreted it. So I fixed the entry. It's easy to figure out what's wrong with the first entry. Just look at all the other entries. They all begin with https:// and the name of the web site hosting the video. So I copy/pasted the missing bit from one of the entries that looked good onto the front of the first entry, which looked bad. Then I saved my modified manifest as Q:\PH\index.m3u8. Obviously, your drive letter & directory structure will almost certainly be different. Also, there's nothing special about the name index.m3u8. That's just the name I chose & it's the name I used on the invocation of ffmpeg. Then I tried executing ffmpeg directly from a little .Bat file (which I will include at the bottom of this post, but not here because it went through a few iterations before I hit upon the magic formula).
It failed. But ffmpeg logged an interesting error message. (The log is part of what I've got on my invocation of ffmpeg, which you can see at the bottom of this thread.) It said https is not on the protocol whitelist & then it listed the whitelist: file,crypto,data. I don't know what any of that means but I went hunting in the ffmpeg documentation-that-is-nearly-impossible-to-understand. You read it & you guess. You try stuff & it fails. You make some more guesses & try new stuff & it fails. You keep trying until something works. So anyway, I found mention of a parameter that whitelists protocols. So I added https to the whitelist.
It made no difference. So then I thought maybe I need to put the parameter in a different place on the command line. So I moved it. Progress. Now it complained about tls not being on the whitelist. So I added it. Progress. Now it complained about tcp not being on the whitelist. So I added it. Finally, success. I don't understand why this whitelist parameter is even necessary. The documentation claims all protocols are whitelisted by default. Apparently that is not the case, as proven by my experience here.
There is still an error message in the ffmpeg log. I don't understand why the error occurred. Something about "Cannot reuse HTTP connection for different host" and then it listed a web address. I don't know where that came from. The other web site isn't mentioned in the manifest & it's not xhamster, although it might be part of the xhamster server farm for all I know. In any case, the log appears to be showing ffmpeg taking some sort of evasive action & retrying whatever it was that failed. It succeeded on the second attempt.
And then it proceeded to download the video. Kind of a lame video, plus it's all in a language (Danish?) that I don't understand. But that's not the point. The point is that I got the video to download by correcting 2 errors:
Error #1: The first entry in the manifest appeared to be damaged.
Error #2: Some protocols needed to be whitelisted to ffmpeg before the download would occur.
I believe there is nothing VDH can do about a faulty manifest. The serving web site would need to be made aware of that sort of thing. You can't expect VDH to be able to correct faulty manifests. It's easy to see the error by eyeballing the manifest. But VDH is a computer program & has no eyeballs, to say nothing of human intelligence. Which may be artificial. But that's a philosophical argument for another forum.
As for the business of the whitelist, you need to understand something. VDH -- or more accurately, the CoApp -- comes with a "captive" version of ffmpeg. Michel has modified ffmpeg (I don't know in what ways) & that's the version the CoApp uses. Moreover, I would not be surprised to learn that Michel wrote the CoApp to supply ffmpeg with the whitelist I discovered by trial & error. In contrast, I am using a non-captive version of ffmpeg, as I talk about in that other thread in this Google Group. So I am probably reinventing the wheel a bit here. I would not be at all surprised if Michel were to read what I'm saying here & say, "Oh yeah. I know about that. The CoApp takes care of all that." That is, if he reads this. Which he may not. Which would be OK. You will see below that I have ffmpeg on my G-drive. Nothing special about that. Put it wherever you want & name the directory as you please. Just be sure to use the right path in whatever you end up running. Saying that I "installed" ffmpeg would be an exaggeration. I just unzipped the file I got, as detailed in the other thread. The only thing you need is ffmpeg.exe itself. The rest of the zip file includes the alleged so-called documentation & some sample programs that I have made no effort to understand or use.
All I can say is that I used the script below & it downloaded that video. I named the script "Get Video.Bat" & it is located in Q:\PH, which is where the manifest, the log file, & the resulting video all reside. I've got the pause command in my script so the command window will stay open long enough for you to look at it & see what messages might appear. Turns out that if you typed everything correctly, there won't be any. Everything goes in the log. And, of course, the resulting video. And oh by the way, I'm doing this on Windows. Windows 7 64-bit to be precise, but I don't think anything I've done is unique to Windows 7. I believe this will work on any version of Windows. I could be wrong. But I think it will work on any Windows. If you're using another platform, your script will have to be adapted to execute on your system. Sorry, I don't know any other systems. You're on your own there.
The thing you need to take away from this is the approach. Capture the master manifest & then improvise from there. This exact approach may or may not work for other videos & other web sites. It's the approach, the attitude, the mindset that you need to internalize. Every video that doesn't download will likely be its own case. What worked here may need tweaking to work in another situation. I took this on mostly as a philosophical & technical challenge. I'm feeling oh so smug that I managed to download this one. Your mileage may vary. My mileage will probably vary in another situation. But I'm not about to look at every single case of a video that failed to download. Either this discussion is educational for you or you need to just give up. I'm just another user. I'm not tech support. I don't work for VDH.
So here is "Get Video.Bat". There's 3 lines here. The invocation of ffmpeg is a single line. It's wrapped onto more than one line here on Google Groups because it's a long line. But it's only 1 line.
"G:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg-20200420-cacdac8-win64-static\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -i "Q:\PH\index.m3u8" -codec: copy "Q:\PH\Video.mp4" 1>"Q:\PH\Get Video.Err" 2>"Q:\PH\Get Video.Log"
pause
exit
I tried your example video https://xhamster.com/videos/ibi-makienok-danish-tv-hostess-13701934 & it wouldn't download for me, either. So here's how I made it download. As in that other thread, I opened the monitor before visiting the page. As in the other thread, the first entry in the monitor was the master manifest. But looking at the manifest, I saw that the first entry looked damaged to me. Maybe it wasn't but that's how I interpreted it. So I fixed the entry. It's easy to figure out what's wrong with the first entry. Just look at all the other entries. They all begin with https:// and the name of the web site hosting the video. So I copy/pasted the missing bit from one of the entries that looked good onto the front of the first entry, which looked bad. Then I saved my modified manifest as Q:\PH\index.m3u8. Obviously, your drive letter & directory structure will almost certainly be different. Also, there's nothing special about the name index.m3u8. That's just the name I chose & it's the name I used on the invocation of ffmpeg. Then I tried executing ffmpeg directly from a little .Bat file (which I will include at the bottom of this post, but not here because it went through a few iterations before I hit upon the magic formula).
It failed. But ffmpeg logged an interesting error message. (The log is part of what I've got on my invocation of ffmpeg, which you can see at the bottom of this thread.) It said https is not on the protocol whitelist & then it listed the whitelist: file,crypto,data. I don't know what any of that means but I went hunting in the ffmpeg documentation-that-is-nearly-impossible-to-understand. You read it & you guess. You try stuff & it fails. You make some more guesses & try new stuff & it fails. You keep trying until something works. So anyway, I found mention of a parameter that whitelists protocols. So I added https to the whitelist.
It made no difference. So then I thought maybe I need to put the parameter in a different place on the command line. So I moved it. Progress. Now it complained about tls not being on the whitelist. So I added it. Progress. Now it complained about tcp not being on the whitelist. So I added it. Finally, success. I don't understand why this whitelist parameter is even necessary. The documentation claims all protocols are whitelisted by default. Apparently that is not the case, as proven by my experience here.
There is still an error message in the ffmpeg log. I don't understand why the error occurred. Something about "Cannot reuse HTTP connection for different host" and then it listed a web address. I don't know where that came from. The other web site isn't mentioned in the manifest & it's not xhamster, although it might be part of the xhamster server farm for all I know. In any case, the log appears to be showing ffmpeg taking some sort of evasive action & retrying whatever it was that failed. It succeeded on the second attempt.
And then it proceeded to download the video. Kind of a lame video, plus it's all in a language (Danish?) that I don't understand. But that's not the point. The point is that I got the video to download by correcting 2 errors:
Error #1: The first entry in the manifest appeared to be damaged.
Error #2: Some protocols needed to be whitelisted to ffmpeg before the download would occur.
I believe there is nothing VDH can do about a faulty manifest. The serving web site would need to be made aware of that sort of thing. You can't expect VDH to be able to correct faulty manifests. It's easy to see the error by eyeballing the manifest. But VDH is a computer program & has no eyeballs, to say nothing of human intelligence. Which may be artificial. But that's a philosophical argument for another forum.
As for the business of the whitelist, you need to understand something. VDH -- or more accurately, the CoApp -- comes with a "captive" version of ffmpeg. Michel has modified ffmpeg (I don't know in what ways) & that's the version the CoApp uses. Moreover, I would not be surprised to learn that Michel wrote the CoApp to supply ffmpeg with the whitelist I discovered by trial & error. In contrast, I am using a non-captive version of ffmpeg, as I talk about in that other thread in this Google Group. So I am probably reinventing the wheel a bit here. I would not be at all surprised if Michel were to read what I'm saying here & say, "Oh yeah. I know about that. The CoApp takes care of all that." That is, if he reads this. Which he may not. Which would be OK. You will see below that I have ffmpeg on my G-drive. Nothing special about that. Put it wherever you want & name the directory as you please. Just be sure to use the right path in whatever you end up running. Saying that I "installed" ffmpeg would be an exaggeration. I just unzipped the file I got, as detailed in the other thread. The only thing you need is ffmpeg.exe itself. The rest of the zip file includes the alleged so-called documentation & some sample programs that I have made no effort to understand or use.
All I can say is that I used the script below & it downloaded that video. I named the script "Get Video.Bat" & it is located in Q:\PH, which is where the manifest, the log file, & the resulting video all reside. I've got the pause command in my script so the command window will stay open long enough for you to look at it & see what messages might appear. Turns out that if you typed everything correctly, there won't be any. Everything goes in the log. And, of course, the resulting video. And oh by the way, I'm doing this on Windows. Windows 7 64-bit to be precise, but I don't think anything I've done is unique to Windows 7. I believe this will work on any version of Windows. I could be wrong. But I think it will work on any Windows. If you're using another platform, your script will have to be adapted to execute on your system. Sorry, I don't know any other systems. You're on your own there.
The thing you need to take away from this is the approach. Capture the master manifest & then improvise from there. This exact approach may or may not work for other videos & other web sites. It's the approach, the attitude, the mindset that you need to internalize. Every video that doesn't download will likely be its own case. What worked here may need tweaking to work in another situation. I took this on mostly as a philosophical & technical challenge. I'm feeling oh so smug that I managed to download this one. Your mileage may vary. My mileage will probably vary in another situation. But I'm not about to look at every single case of a video that failed to download. Either this discussion is educational for you or you need to just give up. I'm just another user. I'm not tech support. I don't work for VDH.
So here is "Get Video.Bat". There's 3 lines here. The invocation of ffmpeg is a single line. It's wrapped onto more than one line here on Google Groups because it's a long line. But it's only 1 line.
"G:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg-20200420-cacdac8-win64-static\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -i "Q:\PH\index.m3u8" -codec: copy "Q:\PH\Video.mp4" 1>"Q:\PH\Get Video.Err" 2>"Q:\PH\Get Video.Log"
pause
exit
Maximus Maximus
Apr 26, 2020, 2:05:48 PM4/26/20
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Thanks for this extensive answer. It's interesting to know that the problem seems to be on the server end, not with VDH. Not sure I'll have the time and energy to try to follow the rabbit hole as far down as you went and recreate all that on my system (esp. since I use mac OS, not Windows). But yeah, thanks for looking into this, and giving us an idea where to start. :-)
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George
Mar 19, 2021, 2:18:24 PM3/19/21
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Hi, you need to be very careful with Jdownloader. It's installer program is loaded with malware, adware, and potential backdoor threats. Some of it apparently very difficult to get rid of according to people's comments on their forums. If you search their forums for malware, you will see the authors respond on how they feel these are necessary to keep the program free. I'm sorry, but I'm happy to pay $30 to prevent security threats, or annoying ads that hijack all my browser (apparently it nails every browser on your system).
If you run the VDH companion helper through VirusTotal web page, you will see it presents 0 threats. It's totally clean and honest. If you run Jdownloader through the same Virus check, it will show multiple PUPs at best, and several potentially more serious threats.
There is a way around that, by locating the Jdownloader.Jar file and running it from the command prompt using java, but it takes a little know how and the Oracle Java JRE package installation (which in turn requires you to register for an Oracle account - free). The Jdownloader.jar file, when run through VirusTotal looks clean. And I can confirm it still works with xhamster as of today after installing the Jar file directly with Java. I won't get into details, it's up to you to find out how to safely install it since this is not the Jdownloader support site. And you still do it at your own risk.
I still don't fully trust Jdownloader, but I've done everything possible to avoid security threats from their installer, and will still support them via donations if after some use I don't notice any additional Malware/adware on my system. They have their reasoning for supporting their software this way, however misguided I think it is, and I don't sense any bad intentions from their responses. But I would much rather support VDH since I think their software is clean, and honest up front about how they fund it and support it.
I would just suggest that VDH bring out an upgraded version that supports both facebook and xHamster video for a smaller upgrade free. I don't mind paying a small one off fee for continued support, as long as the costs are reasonable given that the original cost for VDH is a premium charge normally associated with lifetime software and not subscription model charging.
As for my default everyday downloader, it will still be VDH
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