We are still experiencing DRM issues with some of the StreamFab download modules. If you can only download videos at lower resolutions than you could before January 25th 2024, please be patient as the developers are still working on fixing the issues.
Other symptoms that you are dealing with a DRM problem could be "Failure to access video" errors or endless analysis.
Please refrain from posting about these specific errors as we are of course well aware and working on them. Feel free to post an issue you think might not be related to the DRM problem but bear in mind that they will be treated with a very low priority until the DRM issues are resolved.
The following modules should be fully back to normal (state before January 25th 2024):
AbemaTVApple TV+CrunchyrollDisney+HuluITVX
JoynLeminoNHK+OnlyFansParamount+
RTL+ShahidTubiU-Next
These modules are back to normal for content added prior to January 25th 2024 and lower resolutions for newer content:
AmazonMax
* Netflix content added after January 25th 2024 cannot be downloaded at all. It is back to normal for everything else.
Regarding Peacock , the content that cannot be downloaded is anything posted after February 22nd 2024. Anything Prior can still be downloaded as usual.
does streamfab re-encode the video it downloads?
thanks!
All streaming providers use compression so they use less data as they stream, which can help reduce buffering, accommodate for internet congestion, etc. This is lossy. But StreamFab downloads them from the Streaming services without changes. It doesn’t recompress, re-encode etc.
In other words, the movies/shows exists in the streaming service in a lossy format, but StreamFab itself is not introducing any further loss.
There was a DRM issue for a time (starting around the end of 2021), and Streamfab worked around this by re-encoding, BUT that has long since been fixed (early 2022), and that work around (re-encoding) is no longer used.
All streaming providers use compression so they use less data as they stream, which can help reduce buffering, accommodate for internet congestion, etc. This is lossy. But StreamFab downloads them from the Streaming services without changes. It doesn’t recompress, re-encode etc.
In other words, the movies/shows exists in the streaming service in a lossy format, but StreamFab itself is not introducing any further loss.
There was a DRM issue for a time (starting around the end of 2021), and Streamfab worked around this by re-encoding, BUT that has long since been fixed (early 2022), and that work around (re-encoding) is no longer used.
this is the answer i was looking for -- i thought i remembered it re-encoded at one time in the past, but couldn't find if that changed...
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