I would be curious to know (as a fellow user, NOT an employee of VDH) if VDH for Firefox
8.1.0.0a5 beta with CoApp 2.0.4 work on Hotmart (and Udemy, but you're not on that one,
but I'm still interested in that as well). You can find countless posts in here of
people on both those sites complaining that VDH doesn't work. Those reports go back a
few years. It is not a new problem. I must say, in light of that, that I am surprised
to hear that you have been successful getting VDH to download stuff from Hotmart, at
least until recently. You are a rare case. I wish you would have been around to help
all of those other users who have had problems with the site over the years. We have
asked several of those users to try some things on those sites but the problem reports
have ended up being drive-bys. We get the report, we ask people to try something, &
that's the last we hear from them. I hope this is not yet another drive-by problem
report.
Since I make no assumptions, I will give some details. You may already know these. You
may not. I don't know. So ignore this if you know it. Otherwise, I hope this is
helpful.
To find the latest beta of VDH & the latest CoApp, click this:
https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/BzPLK2YyL-s
Then expand the thread so the complete text of every post is visible. Then search for
"various pieces" within the text of that web page. That will give you another link to
click. Click it & read what you find. It gives instructions, complete with screenshots,
of how to find the beta version of the VDH browser extension & the CoApp. You will
discover that the CoApp is hosted on Github. On the Github page, be sure you click the
item that reads:
Show all xx assets
A successful installation of the beta of VDH ends with a congratulations screen. It's
not just a congratulations screen. There is important documentation on that screen that
you need to read. You will read something about an extra step you need to perform. To
get more complete instructions on that extra step, search this forum for a thread with
the title, "How to download from YouTube." Open that thread & scroll down to a post dated
July 17. That shows screenshots of the extra step you need to perform. Before now, the
advice about that step has been that you only ever needed to do it once. But apparently,
8.1.0.0a5 requires that you do it again, even if you've done it before.
This lateset beta of VDH offers a new way of downloading called Side Download. Use that.
From now on, if you see the Side Download icon on the VDH menu, always use it. Don't use
any variant that does not have the Side Download icon. (It is still possible that you
might find a site on which VDH does not offer the Side Download option. Oh well. Tough
luck. Use whatever VDH offers, but always prefer the Side option when it's available.)
The major change with this release of VDH is that it uses ffmpeg to download content.
That's what a Side Download does: it downloads using ffmpeg. VDH did not used to use
ffmpeg for downloads. This is a great improvement since a lot of problems people have
reported in the past are cured. It is a question perhaps you can answer whether this new
VDH with this new CoApp (you need BOTH) cures problems on Hotmart. If you're using
Chrome or Edge, there is no VDH beta for you. You can install CoApp 2.0.4 but you won't
have the Side Download option. So it would be really great if you tried Firefox to get
your content from Hotmart. Even if you don't have a license for VDH for Firefox, VDH
8.1.0.0a5 beta should still work the same except you'll have a watermark on whatever you
download.
Please try this & tell us your results. Be a pioneer. Be the first to actually give us
any feedback at all after following advice you've gotten here.