Video only , audio only, impossible to downoad video with audio, and even video only or audio only downloads=impossible to detect the 2 seperate streams and download them

[trimechee]

Hello, thank you so much for all your efforts to make this amazing extension !

So the video I'm trying to download is not heavy, just 50mb, usually the download is ultra fast,, but this streaming platform seems to make modifications recently and we can't any more download videos because there are 2 sepaerate streams : audio and video are impossible to merge them, and even audio only and video only downloads stuck, i even tried with other famous extension and i have an error message from other extension : hls encryption is not supported, and i tried with other extension, so i donwload video without audio :(

we hope this will be fixed please because my favourite website puts many videos on this platform, thank you so much :)

The download bug is in second media player (LECTEUR MOON) in this site :

https://v5.voiranime.com/anime/mobile-suit-gundam-seed-vf/mobile-suit-gundam-seed-20-vf/

let's note my interesting awesome discover , i tired to preview with Open-in vlc extension but it doesn't work , so i go to vlc advanced settings and i go to gnu tls priority enryption and i choose performance priority to fast enryption and preview works with vlc !!

Also yesterday late at night, I talked about this serious download bug to Mr Chandler the developer of the Live-stream-downloader extension and this morning, I was pleasantly surprised that Mr Chandler fixed this bug very quickly: the name of the last Commits on Sep 14, 2024 is : position mismatch on decryption,

and after 2 hours, Mr Chandler make another new commit : better iv generation to fix this complex bug...

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EDIT :

I see that the new trend in streaming sites is seperate audio from video and we have audio only stream and video only stream, the extension Live stream downloader fixes this bug but the developer Mr Chandler advises me :

"The website offers video-only and audio-only streams. You need to download both. Then use

ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio.mkv -c copy output.mkv
to get a normal stream.

Also you can start playing "video.mkv" in VLC and add audio track to it (for some streams it is not supported)."

and i discover that we can quickly add external audio track to video only file when using potplayer.....

so it is not problem to download seperate audio only stream and video only stream and no need to merge them, we hope that Hls-downloader will be able to detect the 2 seperate streams from this problematic site please, thank you so much :)

[trimechee]

I see that the new trend in streaming sites is seperate audio from video and we have audio only stream and video only stream, the extension Live stream downloader fixes this bug but the developer Mr Chandler advises me :

"The website offers video-only and audio-only streams. You need to download both. Then use

ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio.mkv -c copy output.mkv
to get a normal stream.

Also you can start playing "video.mkv" in VLC and add audio track to it (for some streams it is not supported)."

and i discover that we can quickly add external audio track to video only file when using potplayer.....

so it is not problem to download seperate audio only stream and video only stream and no need to merge them, we hope that Hls-downloader will be able to detect the 2 seperate streams from this problematic site please, thank you so much :)

[trimechee]

Hi again,, sorry there is a mystery that i can't clear up, the well known extension Stream Recorder from microsoft edge browser store can merge audio only and video only streams from this problematic site without external service like ffmpeg online of Cat Catch, I tested it myself with Stream Recorder from edge store, and our beoved Hls-loader is a wonderful complex extension and as excellent and powerful as Stream Recorder extension, why Stream Recorder can merge audio with video internally without the need of an external service like ffmpeg online ? does our beloved Hls-loader can merge audio only and video only streams like Stream Recorder without external service ?

for comparison the well known extension Cat Catch which can't merge audio and video without the need of an external service like ffmpeg online , same thing for the well known Live stream donwloader extension can't merge audio and video streams internally....

[trimechee]

Sorry, hi again, what surprises me with the well known " Stream Recorder " extension from edge store is that I was able to download and merge audio and video from this problematic site without capture or external service like ffmpeg online or local program !

yes i can use capture mode and i see the "capture" button in the donwload page of Stream Recorder which advises to try the capture mode if the classic download does not work but i didn't try it because I have to keep the video windows open....

and i spoke with the developer of Stream Recorder because Stream recorder extension downloaded from chrome store cannot download videos from this problematic site and shows me a message unsupported crypted hls.....

and the developer told me that he cannot analyze and test this site because the law of his country blocks this site but he advised me to try the edge version of Stream Recorder because the version of Stream Recorder from the chrome store is limited because google policy prohibits decrypting encrypted hls while it seems that edge store is more tolerant....

He explained to me that Stream Recorder can internally merge audio and video even if they are stored separately in different TS files and the site i mentioned (probably) has its TS files encrypted using HLS encryption and it's just that the Google Chrome version of the Stream Recorder cannot decrypt that "due to the Chrome Web Store's policies....

and he think it is not a technical issue, just that Google forbids distributing it in the store and therefore, he asking me to use the edge version of the Stream Recorder, and the reason he cannot investigate the site is due to the laws of his country, not because of a network issue, and he can investigate content officially distributed by copyright holders, but I do not investigate content that is not....:

https://www.altextension.com/stream/index.html

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/altstream-recorder-hl/lmnlleihgiilhajakklebcmgacmmbngj

so , i see that therefore Stream Recorder merges audio and video autonomously internally without even the need for ffmpeg online, can Mr @puemos take a look it on the data from the console (F12) of the developer mode to see how Stream Recorder manages and succeeds to merge audio and video without external service please ?

because it's surprising to be able to do this without an external service and stream recorder itself says it doesn't use any external service and does all this internally!

the Stream Recorder download page which appear when download page appear displays at the bottom several advanced parameters like check box concerning ffmpeg, is it ffmpeg webassembly? but the ffmpeg seems disabled in donwlad page, Stream Recorder seems to have found a trick to assemble and merge hls audio and video streams.....

For the moment, i think that in Hls-loader , merge audio and video is not so important since my discovery that we can assign a shortcut in potplayer to quickly add in 2 clicks an external audio track to the video only.....

but I'm talking about merge audio and video especially for prestige and for beginners and non-experts, maybe it will be great that Hls-loader if it will be able in future version to download seperate streams audio only and video only from this problematic site, it will be great to mention in the FAQ that potplayer can add external audio to video only file, or mentions and recall the important parameters to merge : "ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio.mkv -c copy output.mkv"....

I tried to add external audio via vlc player but it's long and tiring, potplayer is faster ....

Thanks!

Also, all this denotes the importance of the microsoft edge store which seems more flexible and less strict than the chrome store and we hope our beloved Hls-loader will keep an uncensored version on the edge store please, and this denotes the importance of less strict alternative stores, for example the naver whale web browser store:

https://store.whale.naver.com/extensions/popular

or opera store....

and the importance of having a zip or crx version of Hls-loader outside the stores far from censorship and aggressive control of the stores because if the video does not have a drm, no need for the overzealousness and unfair oppression of extensions....

i told the developer of Stream Recorder that i have windows 7 os and i can't install the edge store version of the extension from edge store and he was kind to send me a link to the zip edge version of the extension to install manually, and it worked, i was able to download and merge quickly audio and video from this site without captue mode....

and we hope please our beloved Hls-loader will have an unofficial experimental beta version in zip or crx or xpi format intended for advanced users that we can easily install to test it if we encounter any problems, maybe the experimental version should be uploaded outside of github, maybe upload the beta version to dropbox or google drive or one drive or pcloud or other cloud platforms because certainly there are spies who spy on Hls-loader and want to illegally and abusively censor this magnificent extension which is legit and does not decrypt videos protected by drm !

Thank you very much !