StreamFab for Windows IQIYI - Some Episodes are downloaded in 240p

[Rabiato]

Hi, it seems as if i cannot download certain episodes of two IQIYI Series in proper quality, instead of 1080p i get only 240p.
The episodes affected are numbers 37 - 40 of Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II To the West https://www.iq.com/album/strange-tal...pch?lang=en_us and episodes 35 - 40 of Mysterious Lotus Casebook https://www.iq.com/album/mysterious-...zed?lang=en_us













I would be grateful for any help.

[Rabiato]

Here's the log StreamFab.log

[october262]

Here's the log [ATTACH]n460810[/ATTACH]

are you a VIP user ?? i think VIP has access to 1080p & up

[Rabiato]

Yes, i do have a VIP account.

[Germania]

[Info]: ERROR: [iq.com] s0lo1poln0: No video formats found!
(=> mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-35)

[Info]: ERROR: [iq.com] g5451icbbs: No video formats found!
(=> strange-tales-of-tang-dynasty-ii-to-the-west-episode-37)

ConnectionAbortedError: [WinError 10053] Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen
ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054] Eine vorhandene Verbindung wurde vom Remotehost geschlossen

I see the same difference with yt-dlp (used by SF)

yt-dlp -F https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-34-1bfsl5urjn0?lang=en_us
[iq.com] Extracting URL: https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-34-1bfsl5urjn0?lang=en_us
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading webpage
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Executing signature code (this may take a couple minutes)
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading initial video format info
WARNING: [iq.com] This preview video is limited to 360.0 seconds
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading format data for 480P
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading format data for 1080P
WARNING: [iq.com] 1080P format is restricted
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading format data for 720P
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading format data for 360P
[iq.com] 1bfsl5urjn0: Downloading format data for 240P
[info] Available formats for 1bfsl5urjn0:
ID  EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC  MORE INFO
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
100 mp4 384x160    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 240P
200 mp4 640x264    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 360P
300 mp4 896x376    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 480P
500 mp4 1280x536   │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 720P

works fine - but:

yt-dlp -F https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-35-s0lo1poln0?lang=en_us
[iq.com] Extracting URL: https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-35-s0lo1poln0?lang=en_us
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading webpage
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Executing signature code (this may take a couple minutes)
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading initial video format info
WARNING: [iq.com] This preview video is limited to 360.0 seconds
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 720P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 240P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 360P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 1080P
WARNING: [iq.com] 1080P format is restricted
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 480P
[info] Available formats for s0lo1poln0:
ID  EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC  MORE INFO
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
100 mp4 384x160    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 240P

[Rabiato]

So the problem doeslie with yt-dlp?

[Germania]

Looks like this - SF use (modified) yt-dlp so the result is the same ..

I found only this old topic:
[iq.com] No formats above 240p available for new episodes on Iqiyi

You can try to export your cookie from regular browser (after vip login) - like here

or you check this here

[Rabiato]

The Episodes are released in 1080p, i have already watched both series before downloading them, but i will give your suggestions a try, thanks.

[Germania]

Looks like 1080p is DRM protected (need key to decrypt)
but user-agent iPad works for me (compare with #5) - sample

yt-dlp -F "https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-35-s0lo1poln0?lang=en_us" --user-agent "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/120.0.6099.119 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
[iq.com] Extracting URL: https://www.iq.com/play/mysterious-lotus-casebook-episode-35-s0lo1poln0?lang=en_us
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading webpage
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Executing signature code (this may take a couple minutes)
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading initial video format info
WARNING: [iq.com] This preview video is limited to 360.0 seconds
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 720P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 480P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 240P
[iq.com] s0lo1poln0: Downloading format data for 360P
[info] Available formats for s0lo1poln0:
ID  EXT RESOLUTION │ PROTO │ VCODEC  ACODEC  MORE INFO
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
100 mp4 384x160    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 240P
200 mp4 640x264    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 360P
300 mp4 896x376    │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 480P
500 mp4 1280x536   │ m3u8  │ unknown unknown 720P

If you can add your cookie it should be longer then 360 seconds ..

[Rabiato]

I was able to download the episodes in 720p, which is good enough for me, again, thanks for your help.