About many chunks in the download list

[mig]

You may have noticed since recently that a number of video sites cause VDH to display a large number of small videos that are unusable.

This is due to new streaming technologies, namely DASH (m4s) and HLS (m3u8, mp2t) becoming widely used.

We are working on the problem and now have code that deals with both technologies. It's too early to release this version but we expect a development release to be launched in the next few days.

By that time, PLEASE, do not post any new topic on the subject saying "VDH does not work on this site, i get many entries in the download list". Instead, post as a comment in this topic an URL of a page containing such a video. Do not post link to sites that require a subscription.

A few ones we made tests on, using DASH:

http://www.immobilier-olivier-seban.com/v2bn4
https://bluegrassdaddy.com/listen-to-the-mockingbird-fiddle-lesson/
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154036942
http://bebopguitar.richiezellon.com/about-the-series.html

using HLS:

http://www.twitch.tv/
http://shoof.alkass.net/shoof/index.php?page_no=796&prog_no=7631&video_no=13444
http://roosterteeth.com/episode/rwby-season-3-volume-3-world-of-remnant-the-four-maidens
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/twisted_seduction


Thank you.

[Mar]

Thank you SO MUCH for working on this! I did not realize how much I relied on VDH until it stopped working. I have been checking back here every day to see if there was an update. Can't wait to try the development release. I am so happy -- just made a donation.

[mig]

Many thanks Mar

[Wally Hoffman]

Here's a  URL for a chunked video http://s546271843.onlinehome.us/16c-00r/

[mig]

Thanks. This is a DASH video and downloads perfectly with the new code. Your link has been added to our test case list.

[rociosant...@gmail.com]

I also want to join the discus with my URL for a chunked video.

Please look under the hood here https://livehouse.in/channel/429351/record/4y60eESie

Thank you.

[mig]

Thanks. This is an HLS video and it downloads well with our experimental code. The link has been saved in our test cases list.

[Ar]

hi,
This is a link to a video which dsnt need subsciption: http://eclassesbyravindra.com/mod/page/view.php?id=1929
Thankz

[mig]

Happy to say it downloads perfectly using the latest code. This will be released very soon.

[Rob Sharp]

That's great, cannot wait for this as more and more videos are not working. Will this be a general release, (i.e. update within Firefiox Add-ons like normal) or a separate testing release?)

[mig]

This will be a development release you'll need to install explicitly. Please subscribe to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/video-downloadhelper-5 to get notified of that release.

The official 5.5.0 release with automatic update will come later but it may take very long to go through the Mozilla approval process.

[mig]

We just released version 5.5.0a13 with support for chunked videos: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/video-downloadhelper-5/UqA-ziS6N5E/Rq3Fw9AoGQAJ

[rociosant...@gmail.com]

Thank you for your perfect work, the chunked video is captured normal.

However, VHD does not detect broadcast at on site http://vaughnlive.tv  . 

Please take a look what the problems with this http://vaughnlive.tv website.

Thank you.

[Mar]

Amazing work. Private Vimeo videos downloading again. Sending another donation. THANK YOU!!

[Nancy Savidge]

Posted elsewhere by mistake, here is another site that quit working https://zuzkalight.com/zgym/lifted-butt-workout-17/

[sm]

Uh oh... I was all excited when I saw my videos download perfectly.  But, when i play them (Using VLC Player  2.2.2, the video is fine but there is no sound.  I then tried to download the test videos you sited above and they too have no sound. (I tried it on the last two tests you showed: https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154036942
http://bebopguitar.richiezellon.com/about-the-series.html

[Wally Hoffman]

Same problem with VLC. My above posted link downloaded fine with ver. 5.5.0a13 and plays in VLC  but without sound. Tried Windows Media player and it worked with sound, but video is not as clear as with VLC. Probably something simple. Just letting you guys know.

[Clay Tudor]

Many hanks for this update. My downloads are now seeing this "chunking" about 50% of the time. I am so happy that you have the brain trust working on this. I just downloaded the latest version and I will report any new sites that I see with this problem. Thanks again!
Best,
Clay

[mig]

This site is very likely to use the RTMP protocol that cannot be captured by an addon (search for RTMP in this forum for details).

[mig]

Thanks !

[mig]

We fixed that issue in 5.5.0a14. Please check https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/video-downloadhelper-5/UqA-ziS6N5E

[Wally Hoffman]

Thanks again mig. Can hear and see with VLC. Great work!!

[Nancy Savidge]

Will it ever work with Quicktime again? Works with VLC but is jumpy in QT. Thanks for all your hard work!

[mig]

I didn't know there was a problem with the videos playing on QuickTime.
Are you running the latest 5.5.0a15 ?
Does the problem happen with videos downloaded from DASH (like https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154036942) or HLS (like http://roosterteeth.com/episode/rwby-season-3-volume-3-world-of-remnant-the-four-maidens) ? or both ?

[Wally Hoffman]

Hi mig,

Saw today that VDH was auto updated to 5.5.0a16. Found out because when I opened Firefox I didn't see any icons/buttons for VDH where they usually are. Went to check if somehow it was uninstalled and it showed it was installed and now ver a16 ( had a15 prior). Problem is can't find a way to use it without the icons...any ideas? Using Firefox 45.0.....Thanks again for all you do and you definitely deserve the break!

[mig]

Thanks for the notice. Some other users reported an issue with 5.5.0a16. I took this version out of Mozilla servers for now. You should consider reinstalling 5.5.0a15.

[mig]

5.5.0a17 fixes the problem and is now available on the beta channel. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/video-downloadhelper-5/jU4uOiqkTYc

[Wally Hoffman]

Mig, don't know if it's just me but the last time I was able to download a complete DASH video was with 5.5.0a13. the versions after that, up to a17,  just get stuck after downloading part of the file and never finish. Can you try this one and see if it works for you?  http://s546271843.onlinehome.us/16c-03r/   Out of the 4 choices, I usually download either the 720 or the 1080. I did notice firefox updated last week to 45.0 if that has anything to do with it.

[mig]

I downloaded the video without problem from this URL in 720p variant using 5.5.0a17 on Firefox 45.

Are you sure you let enough to VDH to complete the download ? The video is huge and may take hours to download. Since the download does not appear in the Firefox download manager you may be under the false impression that the download is stuck. Watch the progress from the VDH panel instead. Or look at the size of the .mp4.part file, if it doesn't change in several minutes, then you can say it's stuck.

[numri...@gmail.com]

here is another link if it helps...

http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/wheaton-warrenville-south-high-school-wheaton-il/ca638ae425

[numri...@gmail.com]

The new version downloaded the video from the above site but did not have any audio.  I am trying it again to see if it was just a single issue or a permanent issue.

[mig]

Humm, i'm not even able to get a playable video from this URL. Did you download the whole video (it seems to be 15 hours long !) or do you stop the recording at some point ?

[bm]

Re bumpy playback in QT. 

I'm not an expert on this stuff, but performed what follows. All videos are from your post: https://www.downloadhelper.net/q_and_a_firefox?place=msg%2Fvideo-downloadhelper-q-and-a%2FLicdBxATCME%2FyWmmEg9_DQAJ unless stated otherwise.

1. I tested one video from http://www.immobilier-olivier-seban.com/v2bn4. I downloaded it in two different resolutions as "Mission Immobilier - Episode 2.mp4". I assumed this was DASH, from your post.

2. I also downloaded from https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154036942 (DASH from your other post) in multiple resolutions and tested it as "Zedd ft. Troye Sivan - Papercut (Grey remix) in Vimeo Staff.mp4".

3. I couldn't load any of HLSes from your first post, all the web players required Flash. With one exception: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/twisted_seduction made it to my Firefox, so I downloaded it (was alright both in QT and in VLC). However this might have been some kind of polyfill in case their Flash-requiring player doesn't load; since I couldn't tell if it's actually HLS what I ripped, I installed Flash plugin and tried again. 

4. This time in VDH downloads the item showed up as "HLS streaming", without the final file size, so for certain it was HLS. But then, the only options VDH menu gave me were displaying "audio only" while downloading/ripping/streaming. The best quality option took like 800mb. None of them played - see 5.

5. I also loaded (HLS) http://www.twitch.tv/ main page I started downloading video from the main page -  showed up in VDH downloads just like 4. Neither of the apps could play it. QT suggested other applications, VLC displayed files as of 0:00 length, even thought file sizes were ~250mb and ~20mb for the highest and the lowest resolutions respectively.

6. Then I gave a go to http://roosterteeth.com/episode/rwby-season-3-volume-3-world-of-remnant-the-four-maidens (also an HLS from your post). QT: playback started with a big green area at the bottom (so the window or video was almost square instead of panoramic) and lasted only a couple of seconds, then went black. No FF/rewind was available. VLC: Normal picture ratio, could move the time slider, but playback often wasn't smooth.

Results:

1. DASH - QT: bumpy, VLC: perfect. 
   
2. DASH - QT: bumpy, VLC: perfect. 
   
3. DASH? - alright both in QT and in VLC; what's interesting, QT displayed controls to alter a high speed frame rate video settings (it usually does that for iphone-made slo-mo videos and  then it's hidden for non-slo-mo videos).
   
4. HLS - "audio only", QT and VLC didn't work.
   
5. HLS - "audio only"? - not sure, QT and VLC didn't work.
   
6. HLS - QT: generally faulty, VLC: bumpy.

On:

• Video Download Helper Version 5.5.0a17 in FF 45.0 with Libav installed
  
• OSX El Capitan (10.11)
  
• VLC Version 2.2.2 Weatherwax (Intel 64bit)
  
• QuickTime Player Version 10.4 (854)
  

Earlier I also checked one Vimeo file (DASH, I guess) on another Mac, OSX Mavericks - was bumpy in QT and alright in VLC.

Also, HLS downloads seemingly slow down my machine. This is probably known and expected. 

Isn't this entire QT thing about getting right codecs for Mac? Like you can't open divx/xvid right away in QT.

[numri...@gmail.com]

I did not stop it, yes, the video is 15 hours.  it downloaded or at least appeared to download in about 2.5 hours based on the watching the green bar working across the download item.  I tried on my Win10 box and my Mac with similar results. Although on the mac it seems a little faster because it is a faster machine.  

[mig]

Thanks for the detailed feedback.

I ran some more tests using QuickTime and i'm afraid there are several issues on both audio and video channels that would require re-encoding the streams on the fly and this is something we cannot afford doing in javascript. I'm afraid we'll have to accept it won't work on QT, at least for the next version.

The "audio only" issue is not really a problem per se. It's just that the server advertises the media as audio and it is displayed this way in the VDH UI but that information does not affect the ability to capture the full stream.

Still investigating on the other issues.

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 1:39:16 AM UTC+1, bm wrote:

Re bumpy playback in QT. 

[...]

[Joey Pasco]

Just a quick bit of feedback on this topic, I too am experiencing the jumpy video in Quicktime (no surprise there), but my purpose for downloading the file was to play it on my Roku, and the jumpy playback issue is present there as well. 

Using Roku 3 device with built-in "Roku Media Player" channel

Video was downloaded at highest quality from Vimeo.com / File located on a SanDisk Extreme CZ80 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive. 

[mig]

What we try to do with the HLS/M4F feature we introduce in 5.5.0 is to create a valid MP4 file out of the streams being sent by the server. It may be possible that some devices (or video players) do not accept the codec formats. In this case, there is no other choice than using the converter to re-encode the video. This is something that cannot be done by the javascript code of the add-on.

[Joey Pasco]

So are you saying to use the converter to convert the mp4 to an mp4? (Not even sure that's possible within the software.) Or would I have to choose another file format?

Thanks for your help! :)

[mig]

Yes, converting MP4 to MP4 makes sense :)

MP4 is just a container and can hold codecs of various types and settings.

But in the case of quicktime, i would suggest converting to the MOV format (very close to MP4 anyway).

[Omar X]

Thank you !  I was able to download a segmented DASH video from Vimeo after upgrading from 5.4.2 to 5.5.0a20.  Much appreciated, I will go contribute now.

[Michael M]

i am having this issue with mp3s on soundcloud...scanned through this thread and didnt see any solutions for these... i am on the latest update.

[mig]

I don't have any particular problems on soundcloud. Note that mp3 are generally small and if you listen a number of tunes, it is normal to see as many entries in VDH.

[Thempleton Aart]

On ok.ru content shows the problems related to this thread.
Here is an example:

http://ok.ru/video/39988300366

VHD lists an incrementing quantity of unuseable chunks.


VDH v5.5.0.a21  on FF v45.0.1    Win10PRO 64bit v1511 Build10586.164

[mig]

Good finding. Thanks.

This is DASH protocol but the video manifest is not detected by VDH. Yet.

[Mapp]

I tried to download from this site, but it doesnt work...
http://viewlorium.com
it says is HLS
But it just take a lot of time to downoad, but after I dont see the file!
Thank you

[mig]

Interesting link, i confirm the issue capturing HLS stream there. This has been added to the list of things to investigate. Maybe we'll get a fix for this site (and others that could implement HLS the same way), but it won't be in 5.5.0. Thanks.

[Mapp]

Thanks!
I hope you could fix soon!

[Charles Riggs]

This is not completely accurate.  I have a subscription site where I would see one clean round dot, which I would start capturing.  The round dot would change to a square dot.  That was so through yesterday.

When I loaded up the site today, things started out normally.  But then, about five minutes after I started, I got a message congratulating me that Download Helper had automatically upgraded.  As soon as that happened, the single round dot, which I recorded to change to a square dot, had changed to this list of unusable chunks.  In other words, it wasn't the site that had changed; it was the self-congratulator Download Helper upgrade which had destroyed my ability to download the material.

How do I roll back to the previous version of Download Helper?????????????????

[mig]

You can open to Firefox > Addons > Video DownloadHelper and configure updates to "never", then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/versions/ and install 5.4.2.

Support for HLS and M4F stream capture is way better on 5.5.0 than on previous versions, but one could imagine it broke on a few sites. Can you share the site URL (ideally to a free sample video page) so i can give it a try ?

[Charles Riggs]

Thanks for the info on where to disable upgrading.  I have done so, and the thing appears to be staying on 5.4.2 (quite a relief!). 

As for the URL of the site, since it is a subscription site, I will send that to you privately, I think.

[mig]

Yes, please. In private will be fine.

[DaveD]

Hi Mig,

Same thing happened to me, I'm using ver 5.5.0 as well, have tried removing it/restarting it (although it says it doesn't need it, but i tried it anyway!)

Should i reinstall an older version, as mentioned here at bottom of page to a question by CR

Thanks.

[DaveD]

Here's a link from a post above:

[Charles Riggs]

If you wish to roll back, the older versions are all listed at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/versions/ , and you can download 5.4.2 from there.

But that won't do you any good after a few minutes, because it will simply automatically upgrade to 5.5.0 again.  So you need to follow the instructions from mig above to turn off the automatic upgrading.  Then you should be good.  Rolling back to 5.4.2 and then disabling the automatic upgrade certainly solved my issue; hopefully it will solve yours as well.

[DaveD]

Thanks to both of you's, that should help now, i see its' in the top of page, now to try it out & see, thanks again!

[Jangly Mark]

Vidzi TV is downloading in small chunks :(

Example URL : http://vidzi.tv/4he8lhgc5fn5.html

[mig]

This link works fine for me, with choice between 3 quality HLS variants. Are you really using 5.5.0 ?

[Jangly Mark]

Just looked....yep, it is indeed version 5.5.0

[Jangly Mark]

Update - Seems to work if I click the down arrow (I usually click the green number that comes up).

There is still a problem.  It says 'running' and seems to be progressing, but, there is nothing in my Firefox downloads... (TOOLS > Downloads)

[mig]

It is normal the HLS (or M4F) downloads do not appear in the Firefox download manager. These are not regular downloads (1 URL to 1 file) that can be managed by the browser. Instead, VDH downloads many pieces of data to reconstruct the final file on the fly. The overall download progress can only be monitored from the VDH main panel.

[Jangly Mark]

Thanks, Mig :)

[mackerel]

HLS

http://www.fyi.tv/shows/nicole-and-jionnis-shore-flip/season-1/episode-9

[mig]

Geography restriction :(

What country are you in ?

[Charles Riggs]

On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 7:56:37 PM UTC-4, mackerel wrote:

HLS

http://www.fyi.tv/shows/nicole-and-jionnis-shore-flip/season-1/episode-9

For what it's worth, I tried this both way, both with 5.5.0 and 5.4.2.  With 5.5.0, I got a bunch of HLS streams listed at various resolutions.  The highest resolution was 960 x 540, so that's what I selected for download.  After a few minutes, the download completed (the green bar filled up).  Then the green bar dropped.  But instead of getting the right-pointing play symbol, I got the circle with the slash instead.  I waited for about thirty minutes, hoping the clip was being assembled.  No dice.  And when I looked at the file, it was only 1kb.  Well, that didn't work.

Then I switched to 5.4.2, and tried it again.

This time I got a single stream marked with a round dot.  In the past, that's been a good sign.  I clicked the round dot and it changed to a square dot.  I recorded about ten minutes, then stopped the recording.  I got the Assemble message right away, just like I'm supposed to, selected Assemble Only, as I always do, and then waited for about two to three minutes while the file was assembled.  Sure enough, after about three minutes, I got the right-pointing play symbol, indicating the file was ready for playback.  I attempted three different players, VLC, GOM and VSO and came up empty every time:  no playback, no nothing.  Then I pulled the file into XMedia Recode to recontain it in something different, which has worked for me in the past; XMedia Recode didn't even SEE the file!  Finally I pulled it into tsMuxer to see if I could isolate the video and audio tracks separately and remux them myself; again, no dice; tsMuxer reported it was unable to handle any of the streams in the file.

So that's the story; neither 5.5.0 nor 5.4.2 can handle this site.

Just to dot my i's and cross my t's, I'm using Windows 8.

 

[mig]

Investigated further on this http://www.fyi.tv/shows/nicole-and-jionnis-shore-flip/season-1/episode-9 using a VPN to have a US IP.

The streams are advertised normally using regular m3u8 manifests, but the data themselves are simply not in MPEGTS format. My best guess is that they encrypt their data blocks. I'm afraid there is not much we can do here :(

[Charles Riggs]

Thank for the follow-up investigation.

[Seahorse1223]

http://pbskids.org/wildkratts/videos/ is another site that breaks up the video rather than allowing it to be downloaded as a whole. 

[mig]

Thanks for reporting.

I was able to download the HLS video file as a whole from this site (using a VPN because of country restrictions), however the resulting had video broken :(
So it looks like we have different issues here. Anyone else to give a try to http://pbskids.org/wildkratts/videos/ ?

[Charles Riggs]

The headline:  I rolled back to version 5.4.2 and PAYDIRT!!  Immediately I got a round dot, I clicked the round dot, it changed to a square dot, I left it like that for about ten minutes, then clicked the square dot and, after a few seconds, I had a playable watchable file with 640 x 360 and AAC audio sampled at 48k.  (One peculiarity:  playing it in VLC resulted in audio that switched on and off at one-second intervals; then I switched to the GOM player and all was well.)

With Versions 5.5.0, 5.5.0a21, 5.6.0a1 and 5.6.0a2 the results were always the same:  no live stream made available for capture but a bunch of files for download.  I attempted to capture first the highest resolution version, which was 1280 x 720.  The green bar moved steadily until about halfway through and then stopped moving.  After waiting five minutes, I clicked the entry and I got the message that the file was finalizing, and then I waited for about anther ten minutes but nothing further happened.  I clicked the X to stop the finalizing and that was that:  no capture, no file.

Then I picked the 640 x 360 version to download.  Same thing to start with, a steadily moving green bar, like everything was fine.  I waited and watched as the green bar kept moving steadily, past the halfway mark, past the two-thirds mark, past the three-quarters mark, past the 90% mark, and, eventually, all the way.  At which point, VDH announced the file was ready for playback; I opened it in both VLC and GOM with the same result:  good audio, no video.

As you may recall, mig, some weeks ago I reported that a video site to which I had a subscription had similarly operated properly with 5.4.2 but had lost the ability to download with 5.5.0.  Unfortunately, it was not accessible outside the United States, so you were not able to research it.  Well, here, hopefully, is a site you can research.  As you will almost certainly ascertain if you switch to version 5.4.2, this site does indeed download properly in 5.4.2, but is unable to do so with 5.5.0 or later.

The bottom line:  somewhere between 5.4.2 and 5.5.0, it appears that VDH may have taken a wrong turn; hopefully, going back to 5.4.2, and rethinking the approach you used for 5.5.0, will be able to rectify the problem.  Also, hopefully, this report will prove helpful in that process.

[Seahorse1223]

Update: Full HLS video files are now visible in the download list after changing browser display settings, but download fails to complete.  I get a .part file in the destination folder, but never an .mp4, and the progress bar stops moving at about the 90% mark (sometimes sooner).  I tried switching from 5.5.0 to 5.6.0a2, with no apparent difference. 

[mig]

Charles: please give a try to the just-released 5.6.0a3 development version https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/video-downloadhelper-5/y2Ht8OL-qGg . It implements the ability to download HLS streams without trying to reconstruct a MP4 file, just concatenating the chunks like 5.4.2 did. This way you should have the best of the 2 methods: choice between several quality variants, no need to wait for the video to play in the page, a resulting m2ts file that you should be able to play.
To enable the download to m2ts feature, open VDH settings > More > Chunked, check "Advanced", check "Download HLS streams to M2TS".

Seahorse1223: it's worth giving a try to this method too.

[Charles Riggs]

O.K., I got good news and I got bad news.

The good news is that downloading 0a3 and checking the m2ts option for HLS worked like a charm for the PBS Kids Video web site.  Thanks.

The bad news is that when I went back to the original live video subscription site the URL for which I gave you privately, the download experience, while different, was still a failure.

I received a whole list of HLS chunks.  One of them was much larger than the others, and I was hoping that might be the good one.  It had a faster playback speed than the others, about 4 megs a second, and its duration was longer too.  The others, without exception, were one minute and 40 seconds.  This one was over four minutes.  I requested its download.

Well, it started downloading right away, and I was tentatively hopeful that it would make the connection with the other HLS chunks and download/concatenate the string of one minute, forty second chunks, which, I guessed, was what it was supposed to do.

But, instead, it simply stopped downloading and declared itself finished.

I took a look at the downloaded file.  While it played back perfectly, and was a full HD 1920 x 1080, AAC 44k video, it only ran for one minute, forty seconds, and that was it.

Then I unchecked the download as m2ts option, just to see what would happen.

This time it downloaded a video only MP4 file, and the resolution was not as good, 960 x 546.  Moreover, it still ran for only a couple of minutes before VDH announced the download was finished, even though it shouldn't have been because the live video continued to play.

So, for now, I still have to roll back to 5.4.2.  Let's hope that this info will help you zero in on why this failure is occurring, and what has to be changed to make VDH work with this site again.

[Seahorse1223]

Switching to 5.6.0a with the m2ts option did allow me to download the video quickly and easily; thank you.  However, when I play the downloaded video, the audio is extremely choppy, cutting out briefly every second or so.  (I am using VLC; attempting to open the file with Windows Media Player just gives me a seven-second clip from the middle of the video for some reason.) 

[Seahorse1223]

5.6.0a3, sorry.  I tested it out with one of the older episodes, and it worked fine, but the newest one, and all of the clips from that episode, have the audio skipping in the downloaded files, so I'm wondering whether they might have made some kind of change in the way they handle the source files? 

[La Ackley]

This is a great thread. It allows me to let you know the pertinent problems I'm encountering. Hope 1) I'm not doing something wrong, and 2) there is something to be done to make it right. I am very new to this useful software.

Yes, I'm experiencing the same choppy or stuttering video described many times here.

File in question is https://vimeo.com/167327178
DASH, downloads as an .mp4

Firefox version: 47.0 (brand new) I am happy to use Chrome or IE if they can use Video DownloadHelper
VDH version: Version 5.6.1
Quicktime Player version:  7.7.9 (current)

Any advice here? This video has my young cousins in it and their dad would like a saved copy.

Thanks!

[mig]

You should make sure you either

• use VLC or another fully compatible MP4 player (QuickTime is not)
• convert the downloaded files using "MP4 re-encode" output configuration

[Tony Zekry]

Thank you so much for informing us.

Please keep us updated when this problem will be solved.

Thank you.

[sowl...@gmail.com]

I was using v.5.6 and was happy with it. Firefox insisted on updating the browser, as usual, and for some reason version 6 was installed. Then I noticed that the videos that seemed to be downloading fine actually could not be played. When I changed to a different player, the image was chopped and no sound....

I used a converter from MP4 to MP4. Took a long time, thanks... :) The converted file could be watched and there was sound, but it was in delay (very annoying).

Today I removed Video Download Helper from Firefox and reinstalled the previous 5.6 version. The resulting video can be watched, but still no audio at all.

I noticed that this time the videos are shown as HLS in the VDH menu, not as DASH as before...

Has this happened to anyone else? Can it be fixed?

[mig]

If videos were seen as DASH and now as HLS, this is certainly because the server now streams those videos using a different technology.

My best advice is to use another player, like VLC (http://videolan.org/) to view those videos.

[Tony Zekry]

Mig, i am still having the same problem when using firefox!!

Is the problem still active or did you solve it?

[timonoj]

Soundcloud is increasingly incorporating this technology. Some mp3 are still not encoded this way, but majority of them are starting to be. VDH, please check the souncloud website.

Thanks!

[Serap A.]

I have VDH on both Chrome & Firefox and I usually try to capture videos from these sites

http://www.canlidizihd5.com/

http://www.diziizle.net/ , example video  http://www.diziizle.net/vatanim-sensin/bolum-10

and I'm still getting videos that appear in segments:-(

Has the new updates taken place for VDH? 

[mig]

I cannot tell for sure since this video is country-restricted, but you should give a try using VDH 6.2.0. This version is waiting for review at Mozilla but you can install it right now from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/versions/

[myclpr...@gmail.com]

Hi.  Soundcloud is using HLS streaming, and has numerous file chunks as well.  I attempted today to download the HLS streaming version, but it still downloaded as 'mp4.part.'  The file was titled '...Audio only - MP4' if that matters.  I've been able to download other HLS streaming files but not Soundcloud.  Weird.

When will we see Soundcloud be incorporated? 

Thanks so much.

[mig]

We are currently rewriting the whole add-on to code with forthcoming changes in  Firefox. We will add soundcloud to the use cases list.

[myclpr...@gmail.com]

Thanks so much, Mig.  You rock!! :)

[Kjeld Flarup]

I downloaded version 6.3.1, but I have a subscription site which continuously displays chunks of max 1MB.
As it is a subscription site, I have attached the source of the web page.

[snjsanj...@gmail.com]

Amazon using DASH. (Available in the list of supported sites)

But when you download any video from there (all the links that are generated during playback), the video is not played.

By tearing through the ffmpeg these files, it writes that the video is encrypted.

With other sites that use dash problems there was no

[mig]

Given the nature of the add-on and evolution of the technologies, there is no chance VDH will ever work in 100% of the cases.
Those Amazon streams are likely to be encrypted.

[Ronald Ko]

Many chunks in the download list

https://www.jibtv.com/programs/craftsmanship/20170519.html

I see that it is not in the supported site yet.  Will it work someday in the future?  Thanks a lot.  Your downloader is great.

[method...@gmail.com]

Hi, any results on this DASH stuff? I'm trying to download a video from the mentioned site (http://ok.ru) but it doesn't work :(

VDH 7.3.5, Mozilla 61.0.2 (64 bit)

[Trabuthan]

Hallo allseits,

vergesst bitte nicht diese Diskussion:

video-downloadhelper-discussion

Für euch zur Info:  der bei dem Sender genutzte Streamdienst wird als nexxPLAY Halcyon [V6.1.00]  2018 nexx.TV angegeben. https://nexx.tv/de/nexxplay

Man beachte dieses Zitat von der Seite wobei der Punkt durch mich hervorgehoben wurde:

Ob Mehrsprachigkeit, Untertitel, DRM, Geoblocking, Social Features oder Multi-Bitrate-Streaming – nexxPLAY erfüllt alle Anforderungen eines modernen Videoplayers und bietet Dir dabei sämtliche Monetarisierungsmöglichkeiten in Form von Werbung (VAST 4.0, VMAP und VPAID) oder Payment-Schnittstellen. Darüber hinaus lässt sich das Erscheinungsbild von nexxPLAY individuell nach Deinen CI-Vorgaben und Wünschen über ein komfortables Interface anpassen.

Zitat Ende

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Hello everyone,

Please do not forget this discussion:

video-downloadhelper-discussion

For your information: the stream service used at the station is given as nexxPLAY Halcyon [V6.1.00] 2018 nexx.TV. https://nexx.tv/de/nexxplay

Note this quote from the page where the point was highlighted by me:

Whether multilingual, subtitles, DRM, geo-blocking, social features or multi-bitrate streaming - nexxPLAY meets all the requirements of a modern video player and offers you all monetization options in the form of advertising (VAST 4.0, VMAP and VPAID) or payment interfaces. In addition, the appearance of nexxPLAY can be customized according to your CI specifications and wishes via a comfortable interface.

Quote end.

[JonF]

Hi, help please :) I'm not having any luck with ok.ru (trying to download https://ok.ru/video/1389587603168 )

Using Firefox 76, VDH 7.3.9, VdhCoApp 1.3.0 on Windows

[jc vdh]

Hi,

sorry I didn't manage to make it work on this one.

jerome

[JonF]

Thanks for letting me know.

Is every video on ok.ru not going to work in VDH? Without going too off-topic, is there an alternative option?

[jc vdh]

sorry, does not seem to work on ok.ru anymore

jerome