adultdvdempire streams no longer able to download, any idea how to fix it?

[Argh Argh]

Hi,

For many years downloadhelper was able to download streams on adultdvdempire but now I have the error that the companion app is rquired, I download it but it did not help at all.. I tried it on firefox and it started to download but only small percentage and then stops..

[Wild Willy]

We need a better problem report than that. To learn how to post a proper problem report,
click here:

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

Be sure you carefully read the first 2 paragraphs there. Once you have read that, you
can check out the references within that web page that I am about to give you. But don't
just find the relevant link & click it. READ the context around the link. I recommend
you bookmark that link & read the entire page, if not now, if not in one sitting, bit by
bit over time.

Unsuspecting users have been caught out by a rather stupid design choice made by Google.
The way thread pages are displayed here is controlled by a symbol that appears in the
upper right part of every discussion page of Google Groups, the page I cite above being
but one among the thousands of examples. Actually, some shorter pages don't have it.
But almost all pages do. The symbol looks like an upside down V above a V. Or it looks
like a V above an upside down V. Hover your mouse over that to make a tooltip appear.
Then click the symbol. Then keep hovering there to see how the tooltip changes. Click
the symbol a few times to get an idea of what it does. You want that symbol to look like
a V above an upside down V. If it's the other way, click the symbol. Once it looks like
a V above an upside down V, then you'll be able to read the thread. Why that thing even
exists is beyond me. I point all this out because every so often, somebody doesn't know
about this & it makes my advice here seem baffling. It's not baffling. Google Groups is
baffling. This is how to make it all make sense.

You find a reference on that web page by searching the text of that page using various
search keys. The search keys I am suggesting are these:

problem report
stealth quote
short tutorial
using gmail to post here
too fast

Next, look for "problem report" within the text of that web page. That will give you a
link. Click that, read what you find, & follow the advice. It's not good enough to just
name a web site. Help those who would help you by specifying URLs of particular web
pages on which you are finding content that you are having trouble downloading. I know
I'm not about to scrounge around on some site I've never heard of to see if maybe I can
find something that does or does not work. Make it easy for me to help you.

Next, look for "stealth quote" within the text of that web page. That will give you
another link to click. Click that, read what you find, & follow the advice, not just for
your posts in this thread, not just for your posts in this forum, but for your posts
anywhere on Google Groups.

Next, look for "short tutorial" within the text of that web page. That explains why your
response here will use the Reply all button. It also explains why you will NOT use the
Reply to author button.

Next, look for "using gmail to post here" within the text of that web page. That will
give you a couple of links to read, at least one of which is sure to apply to you. Even
if you don't use GMail, even if you use another E-mail tool to post here, even if you
don't post here via E-mail, what it says there about how to construct posts to the group
applies to you no matter how you post here. If you ignore the advice in that reference,
you will appear to be rude. You don't want to be rude, do you?

Next, look for "too fast" within the text of that web page. That will give you a
reference you should read carefully. That discussion covers a lot of cases, not just the
"too fast" problem. Within that reference is a link. You need to click that & read what
you find there. Within that discussion, you will find a number of links to secondary
discussions. You will need to click those links & read those secondary discussions as
well. You will find detailed examples of the process in question, including screenshots
of what you have to do. This is not something that will take you just a minute or two.
We all know that VDH is a complex piece of software. You are encountering a case of
something that VDH does not handle correctly. You have to expect that it must be an
exceptional case for VDH to fail to handle it. So you can't expect that the solution to
the problem will be simple. However, we (not just me, others have made major
contributions to the collective knowledge base here) have broken the complicated problem
down into simple steps that anybody should be able to understand. But it is going to
take you some time, perhaps even a lot of time, to reach your goal. I can only encourage
you to persevere & work through it patiently. Good luck.

The site in question is going to cause problems for a number of reasons. First off, it's
a p*rn site. Notice how I censored that. You need to be careful about these things. We
have been shut down by the Google censor bots on two occasions. Each time it was nearly
impossible to get back on the air. So we are very wary of discussions of this nature.
We can still discuss things. We just have to self-censor so the Google censor bots don't
find anything objectionable in what we say.

Also, that is a subscription site. Nobody here is going to be able to try anything on
there for ourselves. You are pretty much on your own. Even if I could visit any of your
URLs, all I would do is try to apply the techniques discussed in the "too fast" thread.
All I can advise you to do is read it carefully, slowly, with your mind fully engaged.
If things used to work & now they don't, it's quite likely the web site changed the way
they do things. It's quite possible they did it on purpose to thwart downloaders. They
may even have implemented DRM. That's another keyword to use to search that web page.

You will have to investigate this yourself. Whatever you do, censor your URLs & censor
what you say. If you post URLs, do that as attached images. Paste the URL into an image
& save it as a png or jpg or something like that. Then attach the image. Don't post it
in line. Attach it. If you post any screenshots of pages on the site, censor them.

One last thing. Make sure you are using the latest version of VDH. This is available
from the usual Mozilla add-ons repository. The current release is version 8.0.0.0. You
should also have the latest CoApp, which is version 1.6.3.