Can't download videos from 6play

zacki

Hello,

i can't download videos from 6play, is it normal ?

jpp72

Please have a look at How to post issues in the StreamFab section.

What are you trying to download?
What steps did you take to get this error?
Did you buy StreamFab All-in-One? I so, when?

zacki

Please have a look at How to post issues in the StreamFab section.
What are you trying to download?
What steps did you take to get this error?
Did you buy StreamFab All-in-One? I so, when?
jpp72

- I try to download "Desperate Housewives" episodes.
- I clicked on "#", then on "6play", and on the episode i want to download.
- Yes i bought it, november 2022. It used to work before when i tried to download something from 6play.

jpp72

Ok well i can see that France is still the capital of excessive ads. Geez...

Anyway, i wasn't able to reproduce your issue (Maybe you pay for "No Ads") but please try the following steps and see if that works for you.

Go to the episode you want as usual
If the StreamFab pop-up says Youtube Downloader or Youtube Plus Downloader, just click cancel.
If there are ads, let them play. (I feel it's like a full 5 minutes of ads!)
Once the actual episode starts playing, you should see a blue pill at the top of the video and it should say MPD
Click the MPD blue pill
Add the video to the queue or Download Now.

Let me know if that worked for you.

jpp72

Oh wait a second... I just realized your screenshot appears to be from a Mac and not a PC.

If i am right, then i am sorry to tell you this is not gonna work for you as there is no DRM MPD module in StreamFab for Mac.

That is why i wasn't able to reproduce this.

What likely happened is that 6play recently enabled DRM and switched from M3U8 to MPD. It used to work with the Youtube module because there was no DRM.

If you want to be able to download from that site, you need DRM MPD and because of technical limitations, it is not available for Mac. If you have a PC or Parallels, you can try StreamFab for Windows

zacki

What likely happened is that 6play recently enabled DRM and switched from M3U8 to MPD. It used to work with the Youtube module because there was no DRM.

jpp72

Bingo ! I think that's the right explanation.

If you want to be able to download from that site, you need DRM MPD and because of technical limitations, it is not available for Mac. If you have a PC or Parallels, you can try StreamFab for Windows

jpp72

I am trying (as a trial) on windows and it works but it seems super super long to download the video. After 30 minutes, only 126 / 2082 segments. Is it normal ? Or is it because i use the trial version ? It's gonna be so long to download everything i want, ouch.

jpp72

I am trying (as a trial) on windows and it works but it seems super super long to download the video. After 30 minutes, only 126 / 2082 segments. Is it normal ? Or is it because i use the trial version ? It's gonna be so long to download everything i want, ouch.

zacki

I did notice it was extremely slow but i just chalked it up to a bad VPN connection. I just tried again and still impossibly slow with StreamFab but blazing with yt-dlp.

As you can see, took 1 second to download subtitles, 45 seconds for the video and 57 seconds for the audio.

I will let StreamFab know about this

zacki

9 hours later, only 53% of the video ...
It's way too long, i cancelled everything.

For info, i paid a subscription on 6play so i have no ads and 1080p quality. So the video i was trying to download was in 1080p.

Hope one day the problem will be fix because i have no idea how to use yt-dlp (i guess it's not that easy ).

Wilson.Wang

Hi,

For the download speed problem, I will ask the dev to check it.

And for the video, you can also use YouTube Downloader to download the video if it shown as “Ready to Download”.

Wilson

zacki

And for the video, you can also use YouTube Downloader to download the video if it shown as “Ready to Download”.

Wilson.Wang

Instead of "Ready to download", i have "Analyse" (in english maybe the word is analysing) with a spinning wheel.
I also noticed there is none subtitles available to download.

Cats4U

I did notice it was extremely slow but i just chalked it up to a bad VPN connection. I just tried again and still impossibly slow with StreamFab but blazing with yt-dlp.

I'm completely surprised that you are able to get anything using YT-DLP. According to their open issues they are about to completely remove the 6play extractor being that they only use DRM now.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2005
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/24967

jpp72

I'm completely surprised that you are able to get anything using YT-DLP. According to their open issues they are about to completely remove the 6play extractor being that they only use DRM now.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2005
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/24967
Cats4U

The beauty of yt-dlp is that yes it uses extractors and then you get a bunch of specific options for them but if you feed it the URL for the .mpd, it doesn't matter what the site is. It just looks at what is in the .mpd...

As you can see from my screenshot, the filename is as generic as they get because there is no metadata information (show name, episode number, etc...) in the .mpd

They could remove all extractors and yt-dlp would still work with .mpd or .m3u8 URLs

Cats4U

They could remove all extractors and yt-dlp would still work with .mpd or .m3u8 URLs

But, of course, the resulting files it downloads would be encrypted (in the case of 6play) with the DRM and could not be used directly, correct?

Germania

But, of course, the resulting files it downloads would be encrypted (in the case of 6play) with the DRM and could not be used directly, correct?
Cats4U

The side use lic.drmtoday.com like molotov.tv or cmore (License required x-dt-auth-token)

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btw: really many ads for free user

jpp72

Yep. I plan on updating my scripts over the holidays to allow for decryption. Keep you posted

zacki

Any news ?