More (API?) changes?

[0xFeedBeef]

I thought SF didn't use ThePlatform, but did decryption for CWTV?

[Germania]

UPD- so Sherlock & Daughter download fine now (and SF seems to get a magic m3u8 link from somewhere)

I thought SF didn't use ThePlatform, but did decryption for CWTV?

Where do you think the “magic m3u8 link” came from?

I see ThePlatform and the mpd URL in log:

[0xFeedBeef]

But the MPDs that SF was downloading (like for Wild Cards) weren't going via ThePlatform though, were they?

[Germania]

But the MPDs that SF was downloading (like for Wild Cards) weren't going via ThePlatform though, were they?

Good question - I tried a series without "Extras" (Alaska Daily)

[Info]: Source is  MPD
[Info]: Parse mpd data success.

But why should SF extract the Platform URL? (there is no mpd info)
and save the url in queue info:



Perhaps it was only used for subtitles (don't ask me why)

[Stan001]

Why is anyone even trying CWTV with that crappy limited download screen?
And I have yet to figure out what's going on, as other versions are now the same and other provides are also having issues with the download screen.
I can only say, as far as the download window, YouTube is ok, Amazon is ok, and sometimes Netflix.
I don't really bother much with other providers other than sometimes Peacock. And Netflix will be gone soon from my list of providers.

When they get back to work, hope they fix more stuff, than keep adding crap, because of yt-dlp updates make it possible.

[zapt]

Since buying StreamFab All-in-One recently, I've been checking free supported sites like The CW for old TV series I've missed. I saw they have the full Anger Management series, so I downloaded the episodes that I was missing. All but two (Season 1, episodes 5 and 10) downloaded correctly -- so it's not an "everything fails situation." Something odd is definitely happening with the downloads, though, because they zip right past 100%. Here's a screenshot from Episode 10:



It stopped at around 200%, I think. When played on my Mac, only the audio plays. When trying to stream it to my TV from my Plex server, it simply fails and says "unknown CODEC" or something similar.

In addition, The CW has major issues with creating .srt subtitle files (I already reported this as a Support ticket.) Instead of being 50-60K, each one is 50-60MB. If they're subtitle files, Plex doesn't recognize them as such.

[october262]

Since buying StreamFab All-in-One recently, I've been checking free supported sites like The CW for old TV series I've missed. I saw they have the full Anger Management series, so I downloaded the episodes that I was missing. All but two (Season 1, episodes 5 and 10) downloaded correctly -- so it's not an "everything fails situation." Something odd is definitely happening with the downloads, though, because they zip right past 100%. Here's a screenshot from Episode 10:



It stopped at around 200%, I think. When played on my Mac, only the audio plays. When trying to stream it to my TV from my Plex server, it simply fails and says "unknown CODEC" or something similar.

In addition, The CW has major issues with creating .srt subtitle files (I already reported this as a Support ticket.) Instead of being 50-60K, each one is 50-60MB. If they're subtitle files, Plex doesn't recognize them as such.

does it still fail with subtitles disabled ??

[zapt]

does it still fail with subtitles disabled ??

Good question. I was about to try again, but CW downloads don't offer an option to skip subtitles. In fact, the CW Downloader dialog doesn't offer any options other than selecting the episodes you want. StreamFab Settings doesn't provide a way to ignore subtitles either. All you can do is choose a format for them. I should note that for all other episodes of this and other series I've downloaded from CW (Van Helsing, The Outpost) the same oversized .srt files were created, but they didn't affect playback. I just threw them away because they wasted disk space.

I just tried playing the .srt file for episode 10 using VLC Media Player. It appears that it's the audio from the episode and plays fine. When trying to play the download itself, the player says that it's a blank (" ") CODEC. Both episodes and subtitles play fine when streamed to a browser.

[Germania]

does it still fail with subtitles disabled ??

(it was never possible to deselect subtitles)

I get always the subs - with 6235 is no option
and older releases dl srt without selection - first noticed here

@zapt
The segment dl counter is also wrong for me ..
.. it changed (for s01e10) from 720p to 540p after ~50%
and after 100% all is new downloaded - then I've get 434 segments:


and the result (720p) is garbage



in log 15 MB !

[CefMedia]  Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1;

[Germania]

Manually dl is fine - so the problem is not at cw



The problem for SF is:

[0xFeedBeef]

So it looks like for things that SF can download, CWTV have changed the credits screen where instead of just playing the title, the title gets squeezed into a smaller window and a countdown timer starts to automatically play the next episode. Of course, SF thinks it's the end of stream at this point and cuts off the last minutes of the episode. So, for example, instead of the pilot episode of the Eveleth Hour lasting just over 1 hour and 11 minutes, SF just downloads 1 hour and about 8.5 minutes...

[Stan001]

I am not sure what the issue is with CWTV. Either streamfab doesn't care, or they have no idea how to fix it.

You still get the small, almost useless, download window, which this topic contains numerous screenshots of.

So before you try to download, you don't know if it will or won't contain srt/CC, nor what resolution you will get, although in the downloading window, you can see what resolution.
Evidently, there is some crazy trick needed to get srt/CC as the movie did not download with any srt remuxed.
I think it was said to change to external srt, but for the download window, that choice is NOT there.
Now for the movie, I seemed to get close to the full length movie, unlike what 0xFeedBeef says for an episode of a show.
So if that's still there, it only affects episodes of shows.

A special thanks goes out to justwatch.com for helping to find other (free) streamers that have the same movies.
As for some of the shows, it's not so easy.

I would rather have no comments be made to this post, just pointing out the issue, yet again.

[0xFeedBeef]

So, some limited progress: can add all episodes of Sherlock & Daughter and Wild Cards to the queue with 6238, but download itself fails...

[Germania]

can add all episodes of Sherlock & Daughter and Wild Cards to the queue with 6238, but download itself fails...

With all SF releases I get Failed (S&D) and then selection dialog open again


Only for clarification:
I found the (HLS) m3u8 URL for new content - but it's protected like mpd

[Germania]

StreamFab 6.2.3.9 Changelog
Fix: A failure problem when downloading videos from CW.

√ checked







(with full credits at end)


btw: Looks like a lot of vpn servers that used to work are not working now

[Critical]: QtDownloadTask::onError : errorString :Connection closed, code : 2