Can't login with TV provider on TNTDRAMA.COM

beaugrc

I am trying to download content from tntdrama.com and am having trouble. I was able to download the first episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter as it was available to everyone. However, to access the additional episodes, you have to log in with a TV provider.

Using Chrome on the same computer, I can do so, no problem, and access the content. However, when I click the "Sign In with your provider" link within SF, it opens a new tab that is just About: Blank and a second tab that is the login to the provider. The provider logs me in, but the about blank tab never goes away and the TNTDRMA.COM website is still sitting there waiting to hear back about the login from the provider.

Here is the exact URL of the page: https://www.tntdrama.com/shows/the-librarians-the-next-chapter/watch-now

Any chance the team can fix the problem with the different windows/tabs not talking to each other so that I can log in with my TV provider?

Thank you in advance.

Germania

“Log in with your provider” does not work with most websites ..
.. at least never with all providers

see also example here

If I were you, I would try to log in in the normal browser,
and if that works, export the cookies: info
and import them into SF: info

After that you will need to restart SF
and with a bit of luck you will be logged in

btw: I can't try this because I don't have a TV service provider

Stan001

“Log in with your provider” does not work with most websites ..
.. at least never with all providers

see also example here

If I were you, I would try to log in in the normal browser,
and if that works, export the cookies: info
and import them into SF: info

After that you will need to restart SF
and with a bit of luck you will be logged in

btw: I can't try this because I don't have a TV service provider

The transferring of cookies may or may not work, once streamfab updates yt-dlp, as stated below, as it's a yt-dlp issue as stated here >here.

This has been fixed now in the latest 5.22 version of yt-dlp. Streamfab will need to catch up with their login to adobepass websites and update their version of yt-dlp. The latest stable version of yt-dlp supports adobepass now, again.
Hopefully, everything will work out soon. But if you want, get yt-dlp and also hope the content is not DRM, but it does work on TBS.

SPECIAL NOTE: There still may be an issue, even if/when streamfab updates their version of yt-dlp, as streamfab has trouble logging into most sites with adobepass.

Added note #2: I can not confirm if you can even log into TNT sites due to illness, although I was able to finesse SF to log into TBS, and SF just says the website is not supported, or no videos were found. This >Here will link directly to my testing there.

SCREENSHOT of how yt-dlp worked on TBS:

beaugrc

Thanks. I know that it can download from TNT as I was able to download the first episode of the series that didn't require you to link a TV provider.

SF can log in to the WatchFoodNetwork website with Xfinity, so I was hoping it would be just as easy for TNT.

I will try the suggestions above transferring the cookies, as I am able to log into the website in Chrome on the same computer with no issue.

beaugrc

OK, so I was finally able to log in to the TNT website in SF by opening an external window (Shift-Click) and signing in to Xfinity then reloading the page with the video in the main browser.

Unfortunately, SF couldn't find anything to download. I guess the "free" video of episode 1 was in a different format, as I confirmed I could still download that one, but not any of the other episodes.

Thanks for the help.

october262

OK, so I was finally able to log in to the TNT website in SF by opening an external window (Shift-Click) and signing in to Xfinity then reloading the page with the video in the main browser.

Unfortunately, SF couldn't find anything to download. I guess the "free" video of episode 1 was in a different format, as I confirmed I could still download that one, but not any of the other episodes.

Thanks for the help.
beaugrc

if your wanting The Librarians: The Next Chapter
the show is also available on Sling TV - https://watch.sling.com/1/franchise/23e42b6b997cd4f481a11d868db833c5/browse
Philo - https://www.philo.com/player/player/recording/UmVjb3JkaW5nOjYwODU0ODg5OTkwMDM0MzQ4MA
Hulu - https://www.hulu.com/live-tv
youtube TV - https://tv.youtube.com/browse/UCcS8EZ8MBra8vI-SoquDhHQ?utm_source=onebox
and Fandango at home - https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/The-Librarians-The-Next-Chapter-And-the-Dance-of-Doom/4228871?cmp=OrganicSearch~Vudu~GoogleWatch

Cats4U

This has been fixed now in the latest 5.22 version of yt-dlp. Streamfab will need to catch up with their login to adobepass websites and update their version of yt-dlp. The latest stable version of yt-dlp supports adobepass now, again.
Hopefully, everything will work out soon. But if you want, get yt-dlp and also hope the content is not DRM, but it does work on TBS.

You are correct. The latest yt-dlp is very heavy on AdobePass fixes. This is from the latest yt-dlp nightly (5/28) -

The Turner fix should handle the TNT problem.
The only visible differences between yt-dlp and SF's YouTubeToMP3Process are two commandline options (or so it appears). They are...

--dvdfab-ignore-errors
Continue on download errors, for example to skip when thumbnail embedding fail

--dvdfab-cache-dir DIR
dvdfabcache-dir

If that's all there is (and I'm not saying it is), couldn't they just make up a separate program to handle those two options and let yt-dlp be yt-dlp, rather than turned it into YouTubeToMP3Process? If they don't want to update yt-dlp every week, we, the user, could swap it out ourselves with the latest stable or the latest nightly. This AdobePass problem has been going on for years, and it seems the answer has finally come, but we are locked out of it because we have to wait for SF to find the time to put their name on yt-dlp's program.

Cats4U

Of course, they used the 5/22 release of yt-dlp (YouTubeToMP3Process) for 6.2.3.9, rather than the nightly. Looks like the AdobePass problem won't be addressed for another week, at the earliest. :mad:

Stan001

Of course, they used the 5/22 release of yt-dlp (YouTubeToMP3Process) for 6.2.3.9, rather than the nightly. Looks like the AdobePass problem won't be addressed for another week, at the earliest. :mad:
Cats4U

I don't know, my test >here was with 5.22 of yt-dlp. Now, yes, the nightlys they have done more, but TBS worked with 5.22 of yt-dlp.
But the bigger issue is SF would need to work on their program logging into many sites that use adobe pass, as many won't even let you log in with SF.

ADDED: Ok, never mind now 5.22 won't work now, so I will have to either wait or try to find a nightly...

There was a great in-depth discussion >here.

Since I was able to finesse SF to log into TBS before, I may try again if the latest SF has 5.22.

Stan001

Germania commented
Today, 01:42 PM
> I may try again if the latest SF has 5.22

YoutubeToMP3Process in SF 6239 has version 2025.05.22

I had to correct myself 5.22 of yt-dlp no longer works on TBS, so it's either I wait or GOTO the nightly.
Love to know how I got it to work in post #3.

Stan001

Ok, I can't go into full details, but I temp updated YouTubeToMP3Process to yt-dlp nightly, and SF works this far, see SS below. I then stopped as SF doesn't like I changed YouTubeToMP3Process.

So once streamfab does get their YoutubeToMP3Process updated right and fixes the adobe pass login issue, as I still had to finesse SF to log into TBS, SF should work on TBS, most likely the whole of TBS and TNT sites.

So we are close now ...

Do NOT try this at home, lol.

SS:

Cats4U

Replacing YouTubeToMP3Process back to yt-dlp has never worked. As I've written, SF has added two additional command line options (and perhaps other things) to the yt-dlp source code, compiled it, renamed it YouTubeToMP3Process, and claimed it as their own. I've never really looked into its companion program, YouTubeToMP3Service, but odds are that they did a similar thing to it.
In theory, the latest nightly yt-dlp should fix the AdobePass problems with all the Turner channels (TBS, TNT, TCM, and TruTV) and NBC channels (Bravo, Oxygen, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, Syfy, Telemundo, Universo, and USA). It also adds Fubo to its MSO list.
TCM and Telemundo, I believe, are the two oldest channels that SF had AdobePass problems with. If my message search function was working, I would have posted a link to the messages about them. It's got to be two or three years now.

Stan001

Well, you can see the screenshot. I was able to use SF long enough, replacing YouTubeToMP3Process to get that far. SF crashed about 5 times, so I stopped.

You still have to jump through hoops to get SF to log in because of the way many sites set up adobe pass to log in.

If not done right, then you get what's posted >here.

Also, before, the best I got was this >here.

But yes, again, it's getting closer, and if/when SF fully fixes the login and YouTubeToMP3Process and possibly YouTubeToMP3Service, it should work on most trouble sites as TBS and TNT, and similar.

beaugrc

Any update on this for those who were trying to get the new yt-dlp nightly to work with SF?

Cats4U

Any update on this for those who were trying to get the new yt-dlp nightly to work with SF?
beaugrc

You'll never do it. It won't work. SF has to take the yt-dlp source code, add in their code, and compile it into a file named YouTubeToMP3Process.exe. StreamFab does not use yt-dlp directly. And no, you can not just rename yt-dlp to YouTubeToMP3Process. It will not work. I thought I wrote all that in post #12. So nobody should be trying to get the new yt-dlp nightly to work with SF.
The yt-dlp nightly came out as stable the other day, so there is a good chance that the updated YouTubeToMP3Process that has the fixes for AdobePass will be released in this week's update on Thursday or Friday (depending on where you are in the world.)

Cats4U

Guess what? 6.2.4.1 is out and the correct yt-dlp (YoutubeToMP3Process) is in it.

[debug] Loaded 1861 extractors
[custom info] version 2025.06.09 [339614a173c74b42d63e858c446a9cae262a13af]

I pulled up tntdrama.com and did the AdobePass for my Xfinity MSO, and the same thing happened. Two tabs, one blank, one AdobePass, both with spinning icons. I hate to point fingers (no, I don't) but that should have fixed it. SF is doing something wrong. @Wilson.Wang, could you please get the developer to fix this? Two or three years is a long time to wait for this to be sorted out. Yt-dlp did their part, now SF has to do theirs.

Stan001

After I jumped through hoops to log into TBS I get

Not up to trying TNT or other sites right now.

Log just says:

2025:06:13-07:29:50 0x00009898 [Info]: UpdateDownloadStatus : Status_request_metadata --> Status_request_metadata_failed
2025:06:13-07:29:50 0x00009898 [Info]: M3u8RootCB not ready content.
2025:06:13-07:29:50 0x00009898 [Info]: UpdateDownloadStatus : Status_request_metadata_failed --> Status_request_metadata_failed
2025:06:13-07:29:50 0x00009898 [Info]: M3u8RootCB not ready content.
2025:06:13-07:29:50 0x00009ad8 [Info]: UpdateDownloadStatus : Status_request_metadata_failed --> Status_none
2025:06:13-07:32:34 0x00009ad8 [Info]: [BrowerWnd]: close tab

The
only way still is manually with yt-dlp (06.09) as shown below

ADDED I did test tntdrama and got the same thing:

ADDED: ABC.com is a no-go. Not trying any others.

The weird thing is I got further with 6239, but now can't get anywhere with that either. (here)

Cats4U

ADDED: ABC.com is a no-go. Not trying any others.

I just tried ABC.COM and got it on my second try. I went through the AdobePass procedure using Xfinity as my MSO and this time I didn't get the two tabs with the icons spinning. In other words, it took it. I then clicked on the MPD down arrow, which brings up MPD analysis. SEE BELOW

I chose the setting and started the download, which failed. SEE BELOW
I then tried again using the other down arrow which was just the plain YouTube downloader and that download succeeded.

When I get time later, I'll try some of the other AdobePass fixes in the latest stable yt-dlp.

Stan001

I just tried ABC.COM and got it on my second try. I went through the AdobePass procedure using Xfinity as my MSO and this time I didn't get the two tabs with the icons spinning. In other words, it took it. I then clicked on the MPD down arrow, which brings up MPD analysis. SEE BELOW

I chose the setting and started the download, which failed. SEE BELOW
I then tried again using the other down arrow, which was just the plain YouTube downloader and that download succeeded.

When I get time later, I'll try some of the other AdobePass fixes in the latest stable yt-dlp.

I just tried that episode, and it works for me too. We need the YouTube downloader arrow to light up, as trying DRM downloader gives an error.
The few other General hospitals I tried did not work for me. The YouTube downloader arrow does not light up for most sites, as I said in my tests, like TBS and TNTdrama. If you do try to click on the downloader arrow, it then gives an error below. And the arrow does not light up.

Hope you do have better luck, but it seems very very hit and mostly miss. I got

before on TNT, so there is more to it needed than the yt-dlp update. Very slowly, it's getting closer.
I have not tried other downloaders or recorders for some time, as some of them could not find a video either on TBS.

If you get it working, a bit more constant will be great, and hopefully, you can describe what needs to be done if that happens.

Cats4U

No luck. I tried channels from the NBC and Turner family of channels. I could not get past the AdobePass. I got stuck with the swirling icons on the two tabs. I tried the A&E family of channels, and they don't seem to be using the AdobePass at all. You just have to sign up. A few are locked and only then are you offered the AdobePass. It worked for me. After that, any show/episode that would have been locked is downloadable.
Those are the only 3 family of channels that I tried that were supposedly fixed in the new yt-dlp. Partial success, I guess.