Stan001
Just coming back to this and seeing responses. Timeouts are not that hard to implement even without any user input. Yes, I agree some sites can take longer than other but even a basic 2-hour timeout is more than sufficient to not have anything being stuck and the user going in and refreshing anything. What is the point of a schedule download if it doesn’t do what is its function.
Yes, every time I uninstall and clean everything out I need to deactivate. For the simple reason that when I do a fresh install, streamfab asks me to activate the software again and once you do that, it takes another license of the 6 total.
As for my folders, 100 percent it is not a windows or system issue. I have 25 youtube channels I am downloading from. 2 of the 25, after streamfab creates them, they get instantly corrupted and I cannot delete them. If I create those same folders, I can do whatever I want with them. But even if I created them, streamfab will create them again. I will then have a duplicate and those same duplicates that streamfab created, I once again cannot delete them. I have done this even on a fresh install of windows and the outcome is the same. I have gone into the logs and I see streamfab creates them and than fails to put videos in the folder because it says the folder path does not exist. Now how can a folder path not exist for a program when the program, was the one who created that folder path? this is not a windows a system issue.
As for anystream, yes I felt very disappointed when they just disappeared. For me, I don’t see it as stole peoples money but I can understand why so many people felt that way and I will not diminish how they feel in anyway. For me, I knew the history of anydvd and the scrutiny they were under. I knew the risk I was taking and I took it. For me if they went away one day, it is what it is. I will even venture most poeple don’t know what the streaming companies are doing know just to curb piracy. I had an interview with hulu for a position in there streaming department and my goodness. The stuff coming down the hill. Any who, I am getting of tangent here. You are correct they only had a few sites, but they were also first to the game if I remember correctly and they had all that I needed and for me, it worked well without any issues. I personally never had any issues with Netflix or with amazon for that matter.
Personally, don’t care about 1000 sites. They could have 1 million sites. If you cannot deliver on basic, fit finish, customer service and a working program, it doesn’t matter. Taking plugins from others and bundling it in your software with a clunky interface is not what I would call a working product.
They just release streamfab 7 and opps same issues as streamfab 6. Why am I not surpised.
The only thing I really give streamfab a pass on is the direct downloads from the very big streaming giants. IE Netflix, paramount, disney, apple, amazon etc. Getting through those barriers and getting the content at resolutions people wants is extremely difficult. Working today and not working tomorrow, is just a cat and mouse game. Am I disappointed that from paramount+ I can only download 540p right now? sure. Am I upset that they haven’t fix that yet? no. One day they will. But not putting a basic timeout function for scheduled downloads, is not a pass I can give. Why? I have implemented basic timeout functions with alerts to user from tons of different media content delivery distributors that all have different way of delivering media to then be played out to air at a much later date. If I am able to do that, the team at streamfab can do it as well. If I wanted to download youtube content manually every day, I would do that and I know of a program that does direct download from youtube but does not have a scheduler to auto download the content I want to watch.
At the end of the day, you are 100% correct on what you said. My only choice is to stop using it if I am so unhappy with it and that is pretty much what I am going to.
