...However, sometime in the past 10 days since my last download the audio has now gone from EAC3 multi-channel to only AAC stereo on the SF DL menu - at least for Hulu's Shogun and the D+ Agent Carter series. This is not a Hulu or D+ limitation, since the competition's downloads are still in EAC3 6-channel,* so SF is obviously not even capable of maintaining what little download ability it did retain, which is not exactly breaking news to anyone here.
@KidJoe I didn't try any other D+ content, so if you got EAC3 with NatGeo you might want to check any future downloads and see if your luck is still holding.
*Caveat: Agent Carter and other D+ content will only download in 720p with the competition, as opposed to 1080p with SF, but Hulu will download in 1080p.
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I just did a quick test with StreamFab right now:
Agent Carter on D+ S01E01, S01E02 and S02E03 download as 720p video (as expected), and audio is E-AC-3 6 channel 256Kbps.
X-Men 97, S01E01 on D+, it downloads as 720p H265 as expected, during the selection window, I picked Atmos, I got 768kb/s 6 Channel E-AC-3 JOC (Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos).
Shogun on D+ S01E01, S01E02, S01E03, all failed with "Failure accessing video information, please check your network connection or contact us for help" as expected, based on
my prior post where I said Hulu content on D+ wasn't downloading via D+ Downloader.
The King's Man on D+ (not tagged as Hulu content. but it is on Hulu) FAILED with "Failure accessing video information, please check your network connection or contact us for help"
The King's Man on Hulu (using Hulu Downloader), 1920x1080p video (which I had selected), and E-AC-3 6 channel 256Kbps
Shogun on Hulu (using Hulu Downloader), S01E01, S01E02, and S01E03 downloaded 1080p video (what I selected), and audio is E-AC-3 6 channel 256Kbps
For The King's Man and Shogun on Hulu there is a longer pause with Processing shown on the progress bar, before it starts remuxing. Per Windows Task Manager Performance tab, disk utilization spiked, but no encode/decode activity on video card like Amazon does.