HLS Download is Crashing after 100%

[frer...@gmail.com]

Hello, I need help to resolve a download crash when my video finished downloading, it shows theses errors:

MP2T - No data received

moz-extension://e294506a-0ca2-499c-b256-570db21cb2bf/background/main.js:1
value@moz-extension://e294506a-0ca2-499c-b256-570db21cb2bf/background/main.js:1:222222
value@moz-extension://e294506a-0ca2-499c-b256-570db21cb2bf/background/main.js:1:192586
value@moz-extension://e294506a-0ca2-499c-b256-570db21cb2bf/background/main.js:1:145203
e</value/t.endTimer<@moz-extension://e294506a-0ca2-499c-b256-570db21cb2bf/background/main.js:1:191728

Windows version: 10, 21H2

Firefox version: 112.0.2

Download Helper version: 7.6.6

Companion version: 1.6.3

Here is the link of the video.  I saw you talked of a fix when downloading HLS stream but, it seems not to work with this one:

https://app.videas.fr/embed/1c186845-ec9f-42bd-b852-cbb9798c5140

Thanks for you help!

[Wild Willy]

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/PkUk0WNDDMg

[frer...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the reply Wild Willy, I'm on it.

When I enable HLS as M2TS, the download is finishing but VLC or Handbrake cannot recognize the file.

I will continue to search with the link you gave to me.  Thanks.

Le mardi 25 avril 2023 à 20 h 25 min 41 s UTC-4, Wild Willy a écrit :

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/PkUk0WNDDMg

[Wild Willy]

I tried downloading the 2 variants you can see in the attached image #01. It looked to
me like we are dealing with one of those separate video & audio cases. The second
variant, the one showing the resolution 1280x720 looked like it might be video without
audio & the first one audio without video. But the supposed video downloaded for a few
minutes, then completed with an error saying VDH couldn't get information from media.
How is that possible? After you downloaded 767M of a file, suddenly you can't get the
information from it? Anyway, you won't be surprised to hear that VLC refused to play the
file. The other download had the same result. Time for plan B.

I reloaded the page with the Network Monitor open. I got the totally useful results you
can see in attached image #02. I ran the indicated HLS master manifest through ffprobe.
That gave me the results you can see in the attached file ffprobe.txt. This looks like a
perfectly ordinary HLS master manifest. There are no Streams shared across the Programs.
Each Program has a video Stream & an Audio stream that occurs only in that Program. This
is a situation in which VDH usually detects the content without a problem. I can't
explain what the problem is with VDH. In any case, based on the ffprobe report, I ran
ffmpeg to download this file without a problem. I've attached the log of that operation
as French Space Videomp4 Log.txt. That shows you the command I executed, the size of the
resulting video, the duration of the download, & the average download speed the server
was giving me. Strangely, the speed of the ffmpeg download was less than half the speed
VDH was getting. But then, VDH failed, whereas ffmpeg succeeded. This downloaded file
played just fine in VLC, with both video & audio all the way to the end. I didn't sit &
watch it, just sampled it at one-minute intervals to make sure there was both video &
audio at every sample. There was.

For more on ffmpeg, click this:

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

You should read the first 2 paragraphs there. Then look for "cannot download" within the
text of that web page. That will give you a link to a tutorial on how to use ffmpeg.

While you're in the Table of Contents, look for "stealth quote" within the text of that
web page. Click that link, read what you find, & always follow that advice here &
anywhere else you might post on Google Groups.

When you respond, use the Reply all button. DO NOT USE the Reply to author button. I do
not respond to anything I receive from Reply to author.

[frer...@gmail.com]

A thousand of thanks to you Wild Willy for all of your work.

I am very glad to have a experienced guy like you that know how to test something!

I will work with ffmpeg!

Thank you very much!