HLS Download Starts and Fails

[Chrisser]

I have executed this download many many times. It freezes halfway or very close to completion. The farthest I've gotten is 29 MB but no cigar. If I try to reactivate it deletes the file rather than continue the download. I have not used HLS or chunks before. I've tried 640x360 most often but lower res doesn't make it either. Since I don't seem to be able to accomplish can you please just upload the file here so I can download it. Thanks.


http://www.daystar.com/ondemand/video/?video=3386277891001

[Chrisser]

May I have an answer please?

[mig]

Sorry, i haven't been able to download that video neither.

[Jangly Mark]

I get the same thing with HLS files.

The green bar goes part of the way across - and then stops.  It never  completes no matter how many times I try.

Any ideas?

Firefox 52 ESR / VDH 6.3.3 / Windows 7

Example URL : https://vidzi.online/mcwgr6p1jbk8.html

[skooch]

i have a similar issue, though it seems site specific. some, most, sites HLS works fine.  the exception to that that i am dealing which  presents like so:  dropdown list has multiple hits, some with proper length displayed, others with much shorter, or none.  after choosing the best option the blue circle appears, and that is when the download should typically begin, but on the sites of frustration, it just gets hung up, and doesn't move past 00:00

help please, or a work around, something.  just purchased the license to hopefully avoid this sort of thing

[Wild Willy]

Well, this is a smelly old thread, isn't it?

For reference, I am running Windows 7 64-bit, Firefox 110.0 64-bit, licensed VDH 7.6.5a3
beta (same as 7.6.6), CoApp 1.6.3. That is all far more modern software than we had
SEVEN YEARS ago when this thread was opened (except for Windows 7). So I should hope
these problems are all solved. But I tried them anyway.

I started with the daystar URL that the original poster gave. I'm sure today, that link
takes us to a page that either didn't exist back then or is at least much different
today. For today, when I visited that page, VDH gave me a list of variants without my
clicking play on anything. The duration quoted on the VDH menu was 59:30 so it appears
to have been for the Don & Mary Colbert video that is there now with a date of 2023/2/13,
decidedly more recent than something from 2016. One variant gave an Mbps value but
neither a video resolution nor a duration. I didn't bother looking at the Hit Details to
verify that this was a video without audio. It just looked like it to me. So I
downloaded this one from the top of the VDH menu. Lower down on the VDH menu there were
2 variants that quoted durations of 59:30 each but neither Mbps nor resolution. Again,
without verifying Hit Details, I assumed at least one of these had to be audio without
video. I downloaded them both. All 3 downloads completed successfully.

Contrary to my assumptions, all 3 downloads turned out to be video WITH audio. The
variant I thought was video only was reported by Windows to be resolution 1912x1088 but
VLC reported as 1920x1080. It played all the way through for the full 59:30 with both
video & audio right to the end. I didn't sit & watch it, just sampled it at roughly 1
minute intervals for about 3 seconds each time. Not enough to get a sense of the
content, just enough to verify there was both video & audio at each time index, which
there was.

The first variant that I thought was audio only was reported by Windows to be resolution
1912x1088 but VLC reported as 1920x1080, still duration 59:30. Once again, sampling
showed it to be a complete video with audio.

The second variant that I thought was audio only was reported by Windows to be resolution
632x368 but VLC reported as 640x360, still duration 59:30. Once again, sampling showed
it to be a complete video with audio.

I conclude that whatever problems existed on this site 7 years ago have long since been
corrected in the VDHs & CoApps, & possibly Firefoxes, released since then. Of course,
that's a lot of updates in 7 years. This reinforces the old advice that you need to be
using the latest versions of applications (if not the latest operating system).

I was optimistic the vidzi URL given above by a different poster in 2018 would similarly
offer no difficulties for VDH. Unfortunately, it appears that site has gone out of
business. Instead of getting whatever was at that URL 5 years ago, I got one of those
pages offering to sell me the domain since it seems nobody owns it at the moment. Oh
well.

So if you want proper help, you have to post a proper problem description. That includes
your environment information, following the pattern of my paragraph above that begins,
"For reference . . ." Then you need to post at least 1 URL for somebody else to
investigate.

[Wild Willy]

Forgot one point . . .

It is nearly guaranteed that buying a license will not affect the success or failure of a
download in any way. If the download is failing when you don't have a license, then it
is almost certainly going to continue to fail after you buy a license. Why is that?
Learn about it here:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/BzPLK2YyL-s

Search for "philosophy" within the text of that web page. That will show you a link you
should click. Read what you find. During that reading, you will come across links to
other discussions. Click those as well & read those threads, too.