Daily Episodes from Hulu Appear in Episode Selection List 4 Hours Later

ronniejp

Examples of daily on-demand Hulu episode shows are “General Hospital” and “The View”. General Hospital appears on Hulu at 5:00 PM (1700 hours) Pacific Daylight Time as scheduled. However, after analyzing the video, that episode does no appear in the episode selection folder, so it cannot be downloaded. However, it finally appears in the episode selection list exactly 4 hours later at 9:00 PM (2100 hours) PDT for download. I’ve had the Hulu Downloader module for almost 4 months through many updates of the app, created a support ticket (to which there have been no meaningful responses) and this issue persists. I know that PlayOn is only a screen recorder, but on that app, the shows can be recorded as soon as they become available to view The first attached StreamFab screenshot show that General Hospital episode 172 is playable at 5:00 PM PDT on Monday, May 18. However, the second screenshot show that the most recent episode in the selection list is still episode 171, from the previous Friday, May 15. By the way, I do not experience this issue on my Paramount Plus module and the shows can be downloaded as soon as they appear in the browser. This seems like a server side issue, but it would really be helpful if this problem could be investigated and fixed, or at least explained, if it cannot be fixed.[https://photos.app.goo.gl/yfJKDBFojob5nJE96]
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Stan001

I guess it could be StreamFab; it’s just weird it would not show.
Might be something Hulu codes, and I guess I would just make a note to wait till 4 hours later.

This could be a huge challenge, as it may even be different in different time zones.

and I can’t look, as it’s the weekend. I assume they stop adding shows during weekends.

ronniejp

Sincere thanks for your interest and response. Although it may appear to be a trivial problem, for my specific needs, waiting 4 hours to be able to download the Hulu episode after it is playable in the StreamFab browser is not an option. Since this delay does not occur in the Paramount Plus module, and while I’m probably oversimplifying the process, I simply can’t understand that if the Hulu episode file is available for viewing in StreamFab at it’s normally scheduled time, why would it not be available for downloading until exactly 4 hours after that time? I know that this is a P2P forum, but since submitting a Support Ticket has yielded no response, I’m hoping that someone from StreamFab may look at my post and if the 4-hour delay is indeed “normal” for Hulu, perhaps explain why.

Wilson.Wang

I will ask the dev to check it if have the new episodes added in recently days.

Wilson

ronniejp

@“Wilson.Wang” #p485526
It appears that the Hulu Daily Episode 4-hour recording delay has been fixed as of June 11.
I waited to post this for awhile, just to confirm that it is working consistently.
Now, the daily episodes of General Hospital from Hulu appear for recording in the episode selection check list at the same time as they appear for viewing in the StreamFab browser at 5:00 PM PDT.
I am extremely happy with the results and offer my sincere appreciation..
Thank you so very much, Wilson and StreamFab. 👍