The Steady Decline of Already Poor StreamFab Quality Control

[Supermann]

And how do you do that ?

[Germania]

Amazon

• All versions now Analyze Season1, Episode 1 only. This seems to be a server change. It renders the Click to Analyze button USELESS

I can confirm that episodes started with SF 6196/7 are no longer analyzed ..
.. but I can still turn them into a movie to determine the bitrate/audio/length

example: The Devil's Hour.s01e01




The Devil's Hour.s02e01



It's just a shame that you have to download each episode individually ..
.. but it's helpful to "just" get the information about a single episode
(multiple selections can then be made without the trick - if resolution/sound is same)

[Sebastian001]

Thank you! I just spent about an hour trying to get Amazon to analyse later seasons of South Park so I could download them with 6 channel audio (nothing worked). Since Season 1 is only 2 channel, that's all I can get now.
Also, I downloaded an older version of the software (6199) but it won't run. I get a message saying that it's too old.

Yes, you have the same problem now with all modules if season 1 has 540p. The rest has 1080p. Everything is downloaded in 540p.

[w.pruitt]

Now you tell me? Did StreamFab adjust something server-side and said nothing (which they have done many times before), or the toggling of the settings fixed it? Final option is i am crazy and frankly i'd rather that because option 1 is gaslighting and option 2 is more incompetence.

Funny, I couldn't get anything to analyze. I changed my settings from HDR10 to AV1, then analyzing worked. Changed it back to HDR10, analyzing worked there as well. Not sure what is going on, but thanks for updating your issue. You, at least, helped solve one of my issues.

[jpp72]

Netflix

• H265 HDR10 no longer working. Also seems to be at the server level. I downloaded things in H265 HDR with 6.2.0.0 and if i try again today, it only detects H264 bitrates

So this is either gaslighting, a settings bug, or i am losing my marbles.

10am Eastern Time, v6.2.0.1, 6.2.0.0, and 6.1.9.6 do not download H265 HDR10. I post my frustrations. 10pm Eastern Time (10am in China), i go try to download AV1 HDR10 but i don't see that setting. Only AV1. I select that but change my mind and put it back to H265 HDR10.

All of a sudden, H265 HDR10 works. I can select those bitrates instead of just the single H264 1080p one from the high profile.

Now you tell me? Did StreamFab adjust something server-side and said nothing (which they have done many times before), or the toggling of the settings fixed it? Final option is i am crazy and frankly i'd rather that because option 1 is gaslighting and option 2 is more incompetence.

[maquinny]

Thank you! I just spent about an hour trying to get Amazon to analyse later seasons of South Park so I could download them with 6 channel audio (nothing worked). Since Season 1 is only 2 channel, that's all I can get now.
Also, I downloaded an older version of the software (6199) but it won't run. I get a message saying that it's too old.

[Sebastian001]

Because it no longer works in 6.1.9.6.

But now that i look at it again, Amazon has reverted to separate entries for seasons of TV Shows after merging them a while back. That is when the first problems occurred.

So if i can figure out which version was working with separate seasons, it might work...

Shit... Oh, don't let Amazon fool you. Here in Germany I sometimes see the old user interface for a short time. But at some point the new design will be back. Possibly a bug or an A & B test... or something else..

[jpp72]

why do you assume it is server-side?

Because it no longer works in 6.1.9.6.

But now that i look at it again, Amazon has reverted to separate entries for seasons of TV Shows after merging them a while back. That is when the first problems occurred.

So if i can figure out which version was working with separate seasons, it might work...

[Sebastian001]

Does it no longer work in the 6196 either? If so, why do you assume it is server-side?

[jpp72]

The issue here is that the developers do not have the experience to solve the problems in this specific program. That's where AnyStream excelled. May it rest in peace. Their forum admin and their developer worked together on important issues and only added things when the other programs were working correctly. I am not sure the developers here can fix the issues, or else I am sure they would have.

I actually think it's worse than that. Not only the developers aren't power users, they are not users at all.

They program stuff but they don't personally use the tool to download stuff they want so they cannot catch the bugs. They cannot understand the usability issues cause they don't use it on a daily basis like we do.

If Wilson says: Give them the choice of bitrates, they give us the choice of bitrates. But if there are 3 bitrates for 7 out of 10 episodes and only 2 for the last 3, they don't even consider that if i select the lowest bitrate out of the 3, when it gets to the files with 2 bitrates, it should choose the lowest bitrate. Right now, they choose the highest bitrate. Like they say, common sense is actually not that common.

[Chameleon]

The issue here is that the developers do not have the experience to solve the problems in this specific program. That's where AnyStream excelled. May it rest in peace. Their forum admin and their developer worked together on important issues and only added things when the other programs were working correctly. I am not sure the developers here can fix the issues, or else I am sure they would have.

[jpp72]

I am talking about when the Auto Analysis is disabled

[remmy90]

Hulu click cancel when it is analyzing and then go back to show click on episode you want and it works fine for individual episodes

[travelar]

Agreed. Let's keep adding services that no one has ever heard of instead of fixing showstopper bugs.

I've heard rumblings that the Chrome CDM is about to expire and I wonder how many months we'll be waiting on that update while nothing works.

[Sebastian001]

Yes, I think nobody posts here because Wilson only replies to unimportant things...

Or someone writes something important and others hijack the post with rubbish.

By the way, support wrote to me today in response to my question about when the Amazon analysis problem will be fixed... The answer was "You can't say when it will be fixed!" Who knows whether they actually see it as a mistake and whether it's not supposed to be like that...