HBO Max Latest Season of Gilded Age fails, though I can download other titles from HBO Max

[SFBaysailor]

I was able to download episodes 1-6 of Season 3 of The Gilded Age, but when the 7th episode came out, it started failing. I tried episodes that I had already downloaded and they also fail now. Other series seem to be okay, so I don't know if HBO Max changed something or not.

[Germania]

Works fine for me:






Try to rename your cache (if SF closed) - like here

More I can't say without your StreamFab.log

[jbinkley60]

I was able to download episodes 1-6 of Season 3 of The Gilded Age, but when the 7th episode came out, it started failing. I tried episodes that I had already downloaded and they also fail now. Other series seem to be okay, so I don't know if HBO Max changed something or not.

I have the same issue. I was able to download it with H265 but H264 is failing.


Jeff

[SFBaysailor]

I was able to download in H265, H264 is still failing after renaming my cache file. StreamFab.log

[Germania]

I was able to download it with H265 but H264 is failing.

I was able to download in H265, H264 is still failing

H264 works for me .. but only max 720p - fails with 1080p

[SFBaysailor]

I was able to download 720p in H264, also. Up until Episode 7 came out, I had been downloading H264 at 1080p, I wonder what may have changed. For now, I will continue to download H265 episodes when they come out.

[kingeilert]

Same for me able to dl "The Gilded Age S03E07" in 720p
Same problem with "And Just Like That... S03E11" and i don't get Atmos Audio on it either
version 6.2.4.8

[SFBaysailor]

It looks like 6.2.4.8 still has the same problem, at least for me.

[Germania]

It looks like 6.2.4.8 still has the same problem, at least for me.

For me I can't also see no differences (for Max)

btw: I get And Just Like That..s03e11 also max 720p H264

[SFBaysailor]

I keep hoping with each new release that I will be able to download The Gilded Age episodes in H264 1080p again. 6.2.5.0 still fails.

[Germania]

I keep hoping with each new release that I will be able to download The Gilded Age episodes in H264 1080p again.

When I start the analysis during playback, I get "Movie Mode",
which analyzes the played s03e08 and there is no H264 1080p offered:




I checked the mpd manually and there is no 1080p offer with avc (H264) codec:


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It is not possible for SF to download something that is not on offer
(tested in USA and the same offer in Europe)

[0xFeedBeef]

When I start the analysis during playback, I get "Movie Mode",
which analyzes the played s03e08 and there is no H264 1080p offered:
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It's actually becoming fairly common with HBO, their HEVC encodes are actually very good, there's no practical reason for people to still be getting AVC from them

[Germania]

Personally, I also limit (my few) HBO Max Downloads to H265

[SFBaysailor]

Thanks Germania for finding that out, at least the 6.2.5.1 automatically falls back to 720p on h264 now, instead of failing. The reason I don't like to get h265 is that I have a couple of Rokus that do not support HEVC, but I may replace them so that will no longer be a problem. Another reason I avoided h265 was because of the low video bitrate compared to h264 at the same resolution, but I don't really know how important that is. And since HEVC seems to offer much higher resolutions (at least on HBO MAX), I can download a higher resolution that takes up about the same amount of memory and is much closer to the lower resolution video bitrate.

At some point during the 3rd season of The Gilded Age, HBO MAX must have removed 1080p in h264, up until episode 7 of the third season, all of my downloads were successful using that. Now it doesn't matter which season I do, the h264 1080p is not available.

[0xFeedBeef]

Thanks Germania for finding that out, at least the 6.2.5.1 automatically falls back to 720p on h264 now, instead of failing. The reason I don't like to get h265 is that I have a couple of Rokus that do not support HEVC

According to this April 2023 (i. e. just over two year old) article, Rokus play HEVC just fine:-

https://www.winxdvd.com/video-transcoder/can-roku-play-hevc.htm

Roku started selling 4k-capable devices as far back as 2015, so whatever doesn't support HEVC is literally almost a decade old.

Another reason I avoided h265 was because of the low video bitrate compared to h264 at the same resolution, but I don't really know how important that is

It's as though you're saying HEVC was devised for no reason other than members were bored out of their heads...

[SFBaysailor]

Newer Rokus do play HEVC, but the 4660X Roku Ultra does not. I spent a couple of hours with different Roku tech support until they finally were able to let me know that. It would be nice if their website had that information readily available.

Not sure where you got they were bored out of there heads, I just don't really understand video bitrates, as I had stated. At first they told me it was a software issue and since they no longer make the 4660x, it wouldn't be updated. But they finally did say it was also a hardware issue. I purchased the Roku Ultras in 2019 and they are the 2018 models.

I will take a look at the transcoder and see if I can use that on my older Rokus, thanks for finding that. I will post here later if it works.

After reading the information for WinXvideo AI, I don't see anything that could make my old Rokus play HEVC, they mention converting, which I can already do.