Peacock: Endless Analyzing Video

Chameleon

LOL.

Cats4U

I don't know if that's the problem but I'm in the middle of watching my college football game so I can't really get into it right now. There should be a URL to an Widevine update listed in the manifest.json file of widevinecdm. I'll check it out later.
Cats4U

Nah, no luck with the manifest.json method but I did find this...
https://www.remote.tools/remote-work/widevine-content-decryption-module#1-outdated-widevine-cdm-how-to-update-widevine-content-decryption-module

With that I was able to get my Widevine updated to 4.10.2710.0 for my Chrome browser but it doesn't automatically place it under the Users directory and so it can't be used directly with CEF. Not all the content files in CEF.7z are also in the Chrome update. I haven't checked out updates from Firefox and Edge browsers to see how compatible they might be. Probably I'll just let the developer supply the update for CEF since I can't figure out where he gets them. I did see an update to 4.10.2710.0 for qt5-webengine-widevine (which would be another way of saying QCEF, I would think) but that was for Linux and not Windows. I'm coming to the end of what knowledge I have on the subject and so I'm just going to leave it where it's at. Hopefully Widevinecdm's contents won't disappear anymore.

MrKrawk

@Wilson.Wang,
It happened again. The contents of the C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\CEF\User Data\WidevineCdm folder have disappeared and I get the endless Analysis with Peacock again. There are actually two WidevineCdm folders - 1) WidevineCdm under User Data with all the content missing and 2) WidevineCdm- (note: hyphen or minus sign at the end) under User Data with all the content there. I really don't remember what was there before extracting the files from CEF.7z.
Cats4U

I think the one with the hyphen is just a poor job at cleaning up the folder before archiving. They renamed the old folder rather than delete it.

Cats4U

Well, I managed to get through the night without the C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\CEF\User Data\WidevineCdm folder disappearing again. Hope it stays that way.

@Wilson.Wang wrote -

Please download the file, unzip it to %userprofile%/AppData/Local/ and relplace the CEF folder, then restart StreamFab and try again.

I followed it twice and had disappearances each time. I changed my method and first deleted the CEF folder. Then I extracted the CEF.7z contents into %userprofile%/AppData/Local/. No disappearance yet. Small change but it is working longer than the original method. Fingers are crossed that it stays that way.

Cats4U

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Perhaps it is related to the fact that the latest version of Winevidecmd is 4.10.2710.0. The Windevinecmd version in CEF Zip is 4.10.2557.0 !
adrie

Firstly, I don't think 4.10.2710.0 is the cause for the disappearance. I believe it is more likely that because the CEF folder was not deleted before CEF.7z was extracted I think that may have had something to do with it. The other suspect is that Widevinecdm- directory.
I've got some news, I've removed the Widevinecdm- folder and removed 4.10.2557.0. I'm running on 4.10.2710.0 Widevine and it is working great. My wife has some plans for me this afternoon and so I'll be testing it some more tonight and if all continues to go well I'll release my own CEF.7z. Maybe CDMCats.zip.
In the near future I'll probably be coming out with other file updates that should have been done by the Developer a long time ago. They will include ffmpeg, arias2c, mkvmerge, MediaInfo, and atomicparsley. I've been using these updated files for about a year without a single problem caused by them.

Cats4U

Attached is my version of CEF.7z which I call CDMCats.zip. It ups Widevine to the latest release which is 4.10.2710.0. CEF.7z uses 4.10.2557.0 which is two versions behind the latest.

Instructions:
Turn off StreamFab
Make a backup of %userprofile%/AppData/Local/CEF
Delete the CEF folder from %userprofile%/AppData/Local/
Extract CDMCats.zip to %userprofile%/AppData/Local/
Start StreamFab and download a video (preferably from Peacock or one of the previously affected streamers)

Usual disclaimers -
Only make this change if you know what you are doing.
It works for me, I don't guarantee that it will work for you.
This is not an official DVDFab release and may interfere with official DVDFab releases later.
I don't have any money so don't bother suing me :p
If things go wrong, delete the CEF folder and install your backup.

Download from: https://filesharecats.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/CDMCats.zip

Cats4U

Attached is my version of CEF.7z which I call CDMCats.zip. It ups Widevine to the latest release which is 4.10.2710.0. CEF.7z uses 4.10.2557.0 which is two versions behind the latest.

Instructions:
Turn off StreamFab
Make a backup of %userprofile%/AppData/Local/CEF
Delete the CEF folder from %userprofile%/AppData/Local/
Extract CDMCats.zip to %userprofile%/AppData/Local/
Start StreamFab and download a video (preferably from Peacock or one of the previously affected streamers)

Usual disclaimers -
Only make this change if you know what you are doing.
It works for me, I don't guarantee that it will work for you.
This is not an official DVDFab release and may interfere with official DVDFab releases later.
I don't have any money so don't bother suing me
If things go wrong, delete the CEF folder and install your backup.

Download this file - https://drive.google.com/file/d/15MEXbdnkEnvzfdImXZK0rDOUTpQCnomp/view?usp=sharing
Hopefully this download works. I've had more trouble trying to find a way to get this file to you on this forum than it took for me to make it up in the first place.

Cats4U

Google Drive wasn't working exactly the way I wanted it to so I am removing that download method. Unfortunately I got here too late and I can't get rid of the message above.

Please use this link instead. Sorry about the confusion. It is just so hard to share a file on this forum.
CDMCats.zip

jpp72

Just for my own edification, all the people who are having problems with the endless analysis, have you ever skipped a version of StreamFab?

Ever since @Chameleon was having that Netflix issue where he fixed it by going back several versions and installing every version in between, i do the same.

If i see a version that has nothing interesting to me, or it breaks something, i wait until the next version but just before installing the newest version, i install the version i skipped first.

Just wondering if that could be the common denominator.

Cats4U

Hi Jack!

I have a feeling that that's not the issue this time. I do a clean install with each new update that I load. I, too, load versions based on whether they have fixes I need or features I want. I routinely skip versions and have skipped as many as 3 versions in a row. As I said, I always do a clean install. I delete SteamFab's Log and Temp folders and then do a complete uninstall using Ashampoo's Uninstall program (see note). This removes StreamFab, its configuration, and its Windows registry entries. I then use Ashampoo's Uninstall to install the new StreamFab version. It records a log of all the changes made during the install so that during the next uninstall it will catch everything. I then get StreamFab reauthorized and make all the usual Settings and Gui changes to my liking. I usually run one test download and if successful I'll add updated files (such as FFmpeg, MKVMerge, and etc.) and do another test download.

I am leaning toward the disappearing problem is caused by the widevinecdm- folder. Initially I set up CDMCats.zip with both 4.10.2710.0 and 4.10.2557.0 under the Widevinecdm folder. After I ran a test download I noticed that the 4.10.2557.0 directory had disappeared. So, it seems that StreamFab only wants one Windvinecdm, the second one, and the first one disappears. Widevinecdm- is kept with CEF.7z and 4.10.2710.0 with CDMCats.zip.

Note: I use whatever Uninstall program is cheapest at the time of subscription renewal. They all seem to have a 1 year subscription plan and all the programs seem to work almost identically.

Cats4U

Sadly I have to report that I had a directory disappearance with CDMCats.zip just like with CEF.7z. I thought I had it all figured out but obviously I didn't. Having to guess how and where StreamFab stores things is very hard without the source code. The log doesn't even notify you that the Widevine is missing to give you a clue. The big question is why does it disappear after a day or two?
Hopefully the developer has already fixed this and has used the latest 4.10.2710.0 Widevine. In the meantime, if you lose a Widevine folder just reinstall CEF.7z or CDMCats.zip.

Cats4U

@Mona or @Wilson.Wang ,

It's almost that time of the week for a new update so I'm not sure if the permanent Widevine fix has already made it to the upcoming update or not. In my research, it seems the one thing that I'm not able to do as a mere user is to actually register a particular version of Widevine with CEF (QCEF). That might be the reason (about my 8th theory on this) for the disappearances. Obviously without me having access to the source code, anything I produce as an outsider will eventually fail. I'm sure that the developer, if he is to earn that name, already knows about registering Widevine but you never know and I just wanted to throw that idea out to them.

Wilson.Wang

Hi,

StreamFab will install the Widevine files default in next version.

And for the problem that the files are deleted automatically, the dev also found a way, but need a few time, I may will post a test version at tomorrow for testing the problem.

Wilson

Cats4U

Wilson,

I am hopeful that they use the latest version, 4.10.2710.0 for the next version. As I wrote, based on everything I read, the developer needs to register the particular Widevine .dll to make it stick. I don't see why it would disappear if it weren't registered. One favor I would ask is for you to find out exactly what the developer did to fix the problem so that I can see how close I was.
One thing I did not mention this last disappearance was that besides the files placed under %userprofile%/AppData/Local/CEF by both CEF.7z or CDMCats.zip I also went back to my first solution I tried before you even released CEF.7z. That was to add a 4.10.2710.0 folder to C:\Program Files\DVDFab\StreamFab\cdm\widevinecdm. All previous 4.10.xxxx.x folders are removed. Within 4.10.2710.0 is placed manifest.json and windvinecdm.dll. This matches the way that other browsers, such as Chrome and Edge, have it. I am hoping that having 4.10.2710.0 listed in both places will have a positive effect despite not having registered the 4.10.2710.00 .dll. So far I'm on the second day without a disappearance.

No need to release a test version if you feel it is working well because today would be the normal release date for a new version anyway.

Cats4U

@Wilson.Wang,

One thing I did not mention this last disappearance was that besides the files placed under %userprofile%/AppData/Local/CEF by both CEF.7z or CDMCats.zip I also went back to my first solution I tried before you even released CEF.7z. That was to add a 4.10.2710.0 folder to C:\Program Files\DVDFab\StreamFab\cdm\widevinecdm. All previous 4.10.xxxx.x folders are removed. Within 4.10.2710.0 is placed manifest.json and windvinecdm.dll. This matches the way that other browsers, such as Chrome and Edge, have it. I am hoping that having 4.10.2710.0 listed in both places will have a positive effect despite not having registered the 4.10.2710.00 .dll. So far I'm on the second day without a disappearance.

That didn't work either. It disappeared sometime during the second day of the test. There is nothing more I can do now than install 6.1.4.9 and hope the developer got it right. I'll keep you informed.

Cats4U

Just installed 6.1.4.9. So the developer when back to Widevine 4.10.2557.0. WHY!? Why do they have such a major adversion to using up-to-date versions. There are some major parts of StreamFab that are two or more years out-of-date. Everytime I read of someone having a subtitle problem or missing audio or some other such thing I wonder if it is because you are using MKVMerge from MKVToolNix version 68 rather than the latest version 80. Version 68 is a year and a half old and version 80 has many fixes (including security fixes) and improvements over it.
I just don't get it.
Back to Widevine - it looks like you abandoned the User folder for the Programs folder. You already had a cdm folder that contained a widevinecdm folder but you moved the CEF that you had in your CEF.7z over to a new folder at C:\Program Files\DVDFab\StreamFab. I don't understand why we need a new CEF folder in the StreamFab folder when we had only the cdm folder before and it worked. The Changelog for 6.1.4.9 says that you are going to test Widevine now at install and start, so it looks like we are stuck with it. No mention of registering the .dll so it's possible that if someone keeps StreamFab running for more than two days Widevine might disappear again. And finally, why didn't you use 4.10.2710.0????

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