Mless not working

[BG]

0% downloads from Motherless. Any know of a fix?

[jcv...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Can you share a public link to a video ?

jerome

[Wild Willy]

You have to understand something.  We've had Google censor us twice within the past year.  We were completely unable to access this group.  The reasons may or may not been justifiable.  That is of no importance.  We were shut down.  So now we do everything we can to avoid giving the Google bots any excuse to shut us down again.  Use some common sense.  If you must report a problem here with a pron site, censor  yourself.  Imagine the most prudish person is reading this.  For example, intentionally misspell the word as pron.  Censor you URLs by putting spaces into the URLs so the bots can't recognize them as URLs.  Even further, if you can't properly obscure the parts of the URL because they are words a prude would object to, put the word into an image & attach or embed that instead of including it as plain text.  Use  common sense.  We don't need any more trouble with censoring by the Google bots.  There is an implicit restriction here that all content must be rated G.  Exercise common sense.

[Wild Willy]

Since editing a post is a function that was taken away from us, let me rewrite some of that.

 

Censor your URLs by putting spaces into the URLs so the bots can't recognize them as URLs.  Even further, if you can't properly obscure the parts of the URL because they are words a prude would object to, put the URL into an image & attach or embed that instead of including the URL as plain text.

Perhaps I shouldn't put any faith in common sense.  Common sense so often seems to be a commodity that is anything but common.  I would be most gratified if my pessimism were unwarranted.  I'm relying on you to surprise me & exhibit common sense.

[BG]

Didn't understand the history nor the etiquette so please, forgive me the lack of understanding to enter it in the way described. Perhaps the question should be best answered by going to the aforementioned website and trying to use this product to produce a result? 

[Wild Willy]

Copy a URL (or a few) from the web site into the system clipboard.  Then go into your image processing application, an example being MS Paint.  Paste the URLs into a new file in Paint.  Save it as a jpeg.  Put that into a post here as an attachment.  Then wait for somebody here to look into it.

[AnonP2X3YZ]

I am also experiencing the issue, see attached examples. Appreciate any assistance as always Willy!

[Wild Willy]

When I visited your first URL I got a silent video of a guy paddling a canoe until it
sank. I guess it was supposed to be a sort of blooper video. It certainly was nothing
to upset a prude. VDH did not recognize it. There were some other entries in the VDH
menu, but nothing for the canoe video. I downloaded a couple of them but they weren't
the canoe video. I did find it in the Network Monitor. It took a few page reloads to
make it appear in the Network Monitor but it did appear. It was an MP4. I double
clicked that entry in the Network Monitor to make Firefox open it in its own browser tab.
That worked fine. Firefox's built in video player played it fine. The audio control in
the Firefox player had a line through the speaker icon, confirming that there was no
audio track with this thing. VDH did not recognize anything on the separate tab, either.
Firefox had no trouble downloading it via the Save Video As option on its popup context
menu. Why didn't VDH recognize this? Beats me.

Your second URL was basically the same story. VDH recognized nothing but I got the video
from the Network Monitor & Firefox's download. It was another silent video in which a
CGI creature allows a rock slide to crush a castle.

Perhaps this thread will be helpful:

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

If you want me to look at something more spicy that is actually NSFW, you have to give me
the link. I am not going to rummage around on the site trying things out at random.
Point me to something specific.

[Heavy Mod]

TLDR, you can use the page name to find the location of the file, then just download that.

cdn5-videos motherlessmedia com/videos/PAGENAME.mp4

For example, 002E92C turns into

cdn5-videos motherlessmedia com/videos/002E92C.mp4

you can then open in a new window, right click and save the video. easy peasy.

If that doesn't work you will need to find out which CDN and file name. Here is how you do it:

It is a bit of a pain, but you can do it without the extension. You will need to find out the "real" link for the file, on their CDN. Look at this video: 0000E20 . Hit f12 on your browser, which pulls up the developer console,  and select the network tab. You will then need to relad the page. You'll see a tone of stuff fly by. In the left corner of the console, you can filter ... put in "mp4" and you will this: note, somtesimt you need to refresh again.

you can right click on the domain, and open it in a new window.

This will open the direct video, so you can then right click "save as".

[Wild Willy]

Heavy Mod, if it was too long for you to read, you should not have posted anything. Your
advice duplicates the advice already contained in this discussion, a discussion you were
too lazy to read. You are not being helpful.