Guys,
I wish this forum allowed the full set of emojis because I would fill the page with red hearts. I really, really appreciate all your positive comments. Unfortunately I think I'll stay on the sidelines for now. There's really nothing any of us can do to help each other until this DRM thing gets worked out by the Developer. I think the best thing everyone here could do is read my original post in this thread, the actual warning. I'm really not one to brag but I nailed it, except for the date it all started to go into effect but I was relying on the news story. Some streamers have changed to Widevine 2 (that's what Amazon is calling it, check your logs), and others haven't yet. As far as I can see, there has not been complete deprecation of the older Widevine certificates yet but it was always assumed that they would delay that for awhile despite them saying it would be right on Dec. 6th. So, things could possibly still get worse here. Here... that's an important word meaning the StreamFab forum. StreamFab. StreamFab. I think it is distasteful that some users here (there's that word again) are taking the news that the competitor has been able to get around the Widevine 2 problem for one streamer and are gloating about it here..HERE! No one would dare gloat about a StreamFab accomplishment over there (the opposite of here) because AngryFox would shut it down immediately. 'Nuf said.
Getting back to my original message, I wrote...
I hope everyone here realizes that "picking the lock" of this new DRM, needs to be, and is, the top priority right now. All other complaints about little inconveniences can wait until after the new DRM is solved.
That was a total bust. The complaints still kept on coming such as (phony example); "I VPN into GolumpkiTV.va and Episode 6 of Season 2 of My Mother the Car will not show Sindarin subtitles. I paid good money for this program. I want this fixed immediately." Meanwhile, the Developer is struggling to break through Widevine 2 and he has to take time out to work on the subtitle issue.
Part of the problem is that a large number of visitors to this forum never read any of the existing messages. They just write up their problem and half of them never return to read the replies. If they do return it is to write, "I figured it out myself." That's another reason why I'm not too eager to help out anymore. So many times someone will post a problem and I'll do my research and downloading and writing up of a possible solution and the user with never ever reply back to me or I'll get the "I figured it out myself." In retrospect I don't know why I expected anyone to read a message titled "Two Week Warning" even if I did make sure it had enlarged lettering. Heck, there are still people today that are complaining about Amazon Prime and they don't have a clue that there was a DRM change.
I, also, wrote in the original message...
And don't even think for a microsecond that StreamFab is to blame if the only thing available for a time are videos in SD or something equally annoying.
I'm starting to see a lot of microseconds being wasted on this. StreamFab has used the recoding method in the past to stall for time while the Developer worked on the DRM change problem. This is nothing new and you were warned to expect it. Stop your complaining about it. In the meantime, if you can't live without HD there's always torrents, newsgroups, and yes, that other place.
Well, that's that. My spleen feels well vented now. I still have some ideas for StreamFab in this situation. They are actually old ideas that I posted here the last time we were in this boat. I need a little rest before I dig into them. I also want to see if I can find my original postings of them so that I'm sure my memory matches what I wrote then.
Again, thank you for your warm comments and for putting up with this old cynical curmudgeon.
