Previously posted in another thread about wrong subtitles.The PBS show "Finding Your Roots" indicates subtitles, but when downloading, the subtitles are not remuxed into the output file.[ATTACH]n426473[/ATTACH]

Here is the resulting output fileand log[ATTACH]n426475[/ATTACH]

Previously posted in another thread about wrong subtitles.The PBS show "Finding Your Roots" indicates subtitles, but when downloading, the subtitles are not remuxed into the output file.TomdeOldManThe scripts i gave you will download the subtitles. With the video or by themselves. Or are you saying StreamFab downloads them but they just are not muxed?If they are not being downloaded by StreamFab and you just can't figure out the scripts, here are the subs for season 9:https://gofile.io/d/H7K25z

Jack,Are you bypassing PBS's Passport somehow or have you subscribed to Passport?I went to TomdeOldMan's PBS station and was going to give it a try but I saw it was locked up with Passport. So, I decided to pick two shows that did not need Passport. I set it up my normal way (which seemed to match Tom's way) 1080p, x264, MKV, and remux to file. Both video downloaded fine and contained subtitles. I didn't want to post anything about it because I wasn't using StreamFab 6.1.2.6. I was still using my modified 6.1.2.4 with the latest FFMpeg nightly (at the time of 6.1.2.4's release), MKVMerge 76 (77 is out now), and the latest MediaInfo.dll, aria2c.exe, and AtomicParsley. I wouldn't know if 6.1.2.6 was bad and the unmodified 6.1.2.4 was good or if my modifications fixed it so it didn't seem fair to post it.

Jack,Are you bypassing PBS's Passport somehow or have you subscribed to Passport?I went to TomdeOldMan's PBS station and was going to give it a try but I saw it was locked up with Passport. So, I decided to pick two shows that did not need Passport. I set it up my normal way (which seemed to match Tom's way) 1080p, x264, MKV, and remux to file. Both video downloaded fine and contained subtitles. I didn't want to post anything about it because I wasn't using StreamFab 6.1.2.6. I was still using my modified 6.1.2.4 with the latest FFMpeg nightly (at the time of 6.1.2.4's release), MKVMerge 76 (77 is out now), and the latest MediaInfo.dll, aria2c.exe, and AtomicParsley. I wouldn't know if 6.1.2.6 was bad and the unmodified 6.1.2.4 was good or if my modifications fixed it so it didn't seem fair to post it.Cats4UI have passport. What shows did you download. I'd like to try them, to see if the problem is show specific.Thanks.

Jack,Are you bypassing PBS's Passport somehow or have you subscribed to Passport?I went to TomdeOldMan's PBS station and was going to give it a try but I saw it was locked up with Passport. So, I decided to pick two shows that did not need Passport. I set it up my normal way (which seemed to match Tom's way) 1080p, x264, MKV, and remux to file. Both video downloaded fine and contained subtitles. I didn't want to post anything about it because I wasn't using StreamFab 6.1.2.6. I was still using my modified 6.1.2.4 with the latest FFMpeg nightly (at the time of 6.1.2.4's release), MKVMerge 76 (77 is out now), and the latest MediaInfo.dll, aria2c.exe, and AtomicParsley. I wouldn't know if 6.1.2.6 was bad and the unmodified 6.1.2.4 was good or if my modifications fixed it so it didn't seem fair to post it.Cats4UI bypass passport. Not gonna pay for something i never use and has piss-poor "security".First i tried with yt-dlp and it downloaded no problem and i had the subtitles.Downloaded all subtitles for season 9 in less than 10 clicks using my scripts. Took more clicks to list all episodes than actually downloading lol.Then i tried with StreamFab 6.1.2.6 and it didn't download the subtitles. Saving to MKV.I guess i could try with 6.1.2.5 that is also installed on my US Providers Downloading Machine.It's just weird because the subtitles are in plain .vtt or .srt so no need to go through the same hoops as with DASH subtitles. It's probably that they changed the yt-dlp command-line and it messed up the subs downloading.

I bypass passport. Not gonna pay for something i never use and has piss-poor "security".jpp72We watch a lot of PBS shows, including Finding Your Roots, Nova, Nature, Secrets of the Dead, some Masterpiece series, Great Performances, and so on. I like to support PBS so I have donated enough to enable Passport.

I have passport. What shows did you download. I'd like to try them, to see if the problem is show specific.Thanks.TomdeOldManThe shows I downloaded were American Masters S35E08 - Ballerina Boys and something called Mossback's Northwest: Druid On The Columbia. I didn't realize that the Mossback shows were so short until after I downloaded it.

I bypass passport. Not gonna pay for something i never use and has piss-poor "security".That's interesting about the "security". Are you saying that you can get audio/video/subtitles or just the subtitles? I've seen the latter before with IDM or Tubedigger where I'd get a warning that I couldn't get a certain show but the subtitles were sitting there for the grabbing.I've never had to get Passport myself for anything I wanted from PBS yet. The British shows are usually aired in the UK six months before they appear on PBS so it's just a matter of torrenting (or in your case, newsservering.) Also, PBS makes available the shows usually for 7 days online without Passport at the time of broadcast. Not all PBS stations broadcast at the same time or date and so it is possible to search around and find a station that still has the show you want available online without Passport.

That's interesting about the "security". Are you saying that you can get audio/video/subtitles or just the subtitles? Cats4UI get the whole shebang yes.The reason for the quotes around "security" is because it really isn't security. It's just a client-side overlay. So you can go to the video you want to play and literally delete the overlay with the Developer Tools. You inspect the page and delete the divs of class passport__overlay, passport-screen, player-overlay__inner and player-overlay and you can play the video in your browser.Since those divs are nested, just deleting the top div player-overlay gets the job done.Since yt-dlp doesn't actually render the page but downloads the .m3u8 and JSON info, you can just feed it the URL and it will just download. Should be the same for StreamFab. Just go to the page and it will detect the m3u8 and you can queue/download the video without issue (well, besides the subs not downloading).This is not the 1st time i have seen paywalls were the video loads in the background and you can't click on the play button because there is an overlay. Delete the overlay and bam you are good to go.Other times, video loads but there is no play button at all. But since the video loaded, you just sniff the .m3u8 or .mpd and feed that to yt-dlp and it will download.I have no issue with paying for stuff i use but i don't watch PBS at all and i am in Canada. I wanted to see if it was a yt-dlp bug or a StreamFab bug and it is a StreamFab bug.

That's interesting about the "security". Are you saying that you can get audio/video/subtitles or just the subtitles? I've seen the latter before with IDM or Tubedigger where I'd get a warning that I couldn't get a certain show but the subtitles were sitting there for the grabbing.I've never had to get Passport myself for anything I wanted from PBS yet. The British shows are usually aired in the UK six months before they appear on PBS so it's just a matter of torrenting (or in your case, newsservering.) Also, PBS makes available the shows usually for 7 days online without Passport at the time of broadcast. Not all PBS stations broadcast at the same time or date and so it is possible to search around and find a station that still has the show you want available online without Passport.Cats4Uthe browser addon called the stream detector will grab the video & subtitles from PBS.

PBS Shows won't remux the subtitles (You Tube DL)

october262

PBS.org and subtitles -- Aargh! (SF 6130)

Shows inconsistently remux the subtitles. So far, in my testing:

Antiques Roadshow --
S26 E16 Vintage Palm Springs, Hour 1, subtitles not remuxed.
S27 E01 Filoli, Hour 1, remuxed subtitles
S27 E02 Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 1, remuxed subtitles
S27 E03 Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 2, subtitles not remuxed
S27 E04 Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 3, remuxed subtitles
S27 E05 Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Hour 1, remuxed subtitles

Finding Your Roots --
Season 7 & 9, 12 total episodes tested, Subtitles exist (via Chrome browser), and are displayed as available in SF, but are not remuxed into the shows.

Nature --
S41 E01 Running with the Beest, remuxed subtitles

Nova --
S50 E01 London Super Tunnel, remuxed subtitles

I am continuing to test the PBS.org shows.

I have noted that the downloading that SF displays is inconsistent. While watching the SF activity via Windows 10 task manager, the display does not show Processing when the Task Manager indicates that the show is no longer being downloaded, but processed.

Edit Add: The display "Processed" varies with the show. Sometimes it is there and sometimes it isn't. Another inconsistent display and action.
TomdeOldMan

just tried Antiques Roadshow --
S26 E16 Vintage Palm Springs, Hour 1
according to mediainfo, the video does have timed text subtitles

TomdeOldMan

At this point StreamFab is not the right tool to use to download from PBS and hope to get subtitles. May I suggest you purchase either Tubedigger or Internet Download Manager (IDM). Or as has been suggested previously, learn to use yt-dlp or the many GUI programs that use it.
Cats4U

I appreciate the suggestions, but I plan on continuing to report the problem as it exists. The most interesting thing is that the only consistent failure is Finding Your Roots. The rest capture the subtitles with only a few failures here and there. I'm not even sure that those failures are consistent and may go back and retry those that fail to see if the problem is intermittent or repeated tries will yield success.

TomdeOldMan

just tried Antiques Roadshow --
S26 E16 Vintage Palm Springs, Hour 1
according to mediainfo, the video does have timed text subtitles
october262

When I checked it last night, the mediainfo was missing the text section. So, it is inconsistent.

The only one that is not setting the subtitles appears to be Finding Your Roots.

Thanks for the info.

october262

When I checked it last night, the mediainfo was missing the text section. So, it is inconsistent.

The only one that is not setting the subtitles appears to be Finding Your Roots.

Thanks for the info.
TomdeOldMan

finding your roots season 7 episode 10 episode has timed text subtitles -

TomdeOldMan

finding your roots season 7 episode 10 episode has timed text subtitles -
october262

I can't view the sample text (don't have permission). So far, there are two PBS series that have subtitles, but are not capturing them: Secrets of the Dead (that I have checked so far) and Finding Your Roots. Here is the mediainfo for Season 7, Episode 10. If there are subtitles, they have the ID # 3.

october262

it has ID #3 - General
Complete name : C:\Users\POS7\Documents\DVDFab\StreamFab\Output\Yo uTube\Video\Finding Your Roots - Laughing on the Inside.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
File size : 449 MiB
Duration : 52 min 11 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 203 kb/s
Frame rate : 29.970 FPS
Movie name : Finding Your Roots - Laughing on the Inside
Description : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the family history of Roy Wood, Jr. and Lewis Black.
Writing application : Lavf58.76.100
Cover : Yes
Comment : https://www.pbs.org/video/laughing-inside-gble34/
LongDescription : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the family history of Roy Wood, Jr. and Lewis Black.

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=4, N=60
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 52 min 11 s
Source duration : 52 min 11 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 100 kb/s
Width : 768 pixels
Height : 432 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.111
Stream size : 391 MiB (87%)
Source stream size : 411 MiB (91%)
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
mdhd_Duration : 3131417
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC SBR
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication
Commercial name : HE-AAC
Format settings : Implicit
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 52 min 11 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 96.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 23.438 FPS (2048 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 35.3 MiB (8%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1

Text
ID : 3
Format : Timed Text
Muxing mode : sbtl
Codec ID : tx3g
Duration : 52 min 10 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 110 b/s
Frame rate : 0.690 FPS
Stream size : 42.1 KiB (0%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Alternate group : 3
Count of events : 1079

TomdeOldMan

Interesting. The difference is that I'm saving in mkv format while you're saving in mpeg format. I'll have to give it a try. and also something for the developers to look at.

Thank you for posting the complete report.

TomdeOldMan

Many thanks to october262. Switching to mpg resolved the PBS issue for me, but is disturbing because I use mkv which should be capturing to subtitle track.

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