Freevine - A downloader for free streaming services (discontinued)

[stabbedbybrick]

Cannot play in browser. Errors state : "Something's not right Please reload the page, or close and reopen the browser to try again."

All right, that's most likely a VPN issue then. It's common for these streaming services to regularly block certain IP-ranges from known VPN providers, so the only thing to do is to keep trying servers until you find one that works. Or get a dedicated IP of some kind, which might be overkill for the use of free content only.

Windscribe and maybe Proton are worth checking out as well. Even their free servers are quite good at circumventing geo blocks.

[SE14man]

I'll give these a go and hopefully that'll sort it. Thanks mate

[iamghost]

Hey

Cannot seem to get ROKU channel to work.

Tried NordVPN, Express VPN, dns4me & smartdns & getflic and it keeps telling me its not available in my region. Can only assume I need to first of all get round this issue in order to proceed with freevine.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I have ExpressVPN so it doesn’t work with all USA locations so I try with Windscribe it’s works

[SE14man]

i had luck with windscribe, thanks guys

[SE14man]

@stabbedbybrick

I just wondered if you could make it so your CH4 part of the freevine script can detect Channel 4 streams which have 5000 kbps.

There is a CH4HD script available which detects bitrates of 5000 kbps but I wondered if you could somehow make it so yours sees those 1080s with a 5000 kbps bitrate?

Cheers

[stabbedbybrick]

@SE14man:

It already does.

                  The Great British Bake Off S14E10 The Final                  
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Video ID      ┃ Resolution ┃ Bitrate ┃ Audio ID           ┃ Bitrate ┃ Codec ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│ video=149029  │ 256x144    │ 155     │ audio_eng=128000   │ 133     │ None  │
│ video=248216  │ 384x216    │ 255     │ audio_eng_1=128000 │ 133     │ None  │
│ video=495604  │ 512x288    │ 505     │                    │         │       │
│ video=789774  │ 640x360    │ 808     │                    │         │       │
│ video=986475  │ 640x360    │ 1009    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1186085 │ 1024x576   │ 1207    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1481929 │ 1024x576   │ 1508    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1976730 │ 1280x720   │ 2007    │                    │         │       │
│ video=2966615 │ 1920x1080  │ 3012    │                    │         │       │
│ video=4941807 │ 1920x1080  │ 5009    │                    │         │       │
└───────────────┴────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴───────┘

[SE14man]

Hwy

It wasnt able to find 5000 kbps of this one https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-couple-next-door/on-demand/75028-001

It only seems to find 3000 kbps versions

Whats it saying for you?

Do I need to make any chnages for the config for it to show higher bitrates?

[stabbedbybrick]

No, it looks for higher bitrate streams by default. Unless you've made earlier changes to api.yaml, nothing needs to be changed. Make sure the client is set to "android".

                          The Couple Next Door S01E01                          
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Video ID      ┃ Resolution ┃ Bitrate ┃ Audio ID           ┃ Bitrate ┃ Codec ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│ video=148968  │ 256x144    │ 174     │ audio_eng=128000   │ 133     │ None  │
│ video=248075  │ 384x216    │ 325     │ audio_eng_1=128000 │ 133     │ None  │
│ video=495780  │ 512x288    │ 718     │                    │         │       │
│ video=793230  │ 640x360    │ 1116    │                    │         │       │
│ video=991280  │ 640x360    │ 1455    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1189979 │ 1024x576   │ 1732    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1487091 │ 1024x576   │ 2195    │                    │         │       │
│ video=1982517 │ 1280x720   │ 2984    │                    │         │       │
│ video=2973174 │ 1920x1080  │ 3994    │                    │         │       │
│ video=4953458 │ 1920x1080  │ 6856    │                    │         │       │
└───────────────┴────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴───────┘

[SE14man]

ah! I had it set to web before purely because it was only finding 576 streams which is why i changed it from android to web in the first place.

Thanks ill give that a go

Edit: Working fine, thanks!

[LastResort]

Stabby, could you please explain what I'm doing wrong please.


"C:\freevine-1.0.0>freevine.py --search BBC mandy"

19:54:00.034 INFO : Freevine v1.0.5


BBC iPlayer
Title: Mandy
Type: programme
Synopsis: Comedy by Diane Morgan about the life and times of Mandy Carter.
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08gpftk


Now this is where I keep getting it wrong,... I was sure I had beeb figured.

my attempt was the following (because it's not part of a series, but a singular episode).

"C:\freevine-1.0.0>freevine.py --episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08gpftk" (but this failed)

"freevine.py -i -e "mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08gpftk" (this only downloaded the subs)

[iamghost]

Stabby, could you please explain what I'm doing wrong please.


"C:\freevine-1.0.0>freevine.py --search BBC mandy"

19:54:00.034 INFO : Freevine v1.0.5


BBC iPlayer
Title: Mandy
Type: programme
Synopsis: Comedy by Diane Morgan about the life and times of Mandy Carter.
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08gpftk


Now this is where I keep getting it wrong,... I was sure I had beeb figured.

my attempt was the following (because it's not part of a series, but a singular episode).

"C:\freevine-1.0.0>freevine.py --episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08gpftk" (but this failed)

"freevine.py -i -e "mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08gpftk" (this only downloaded the subs)

you must add season and episode like -e s01e01
or
you can add episode url like -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08ljlpc/mandy-series-1-3-russian (episode 3)

freevine.py -i -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08ljlpc/mandy-series-1-3-russian

20:20:54.864 INFO : Freevine v1.0.5

20:20:55.231 INFO : BBC iPlayer
                              Mandy S01E03 Russian
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Video ID       ┃ Resolution ┃ Bitrate ┃ Audio ID           ┃ Bitrate ┃ Codec ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│ video=827000   │ 704x396    │ 827     │ audio_eng_1=128000 │ 128     │ None  │
│ video=1570000  │ 704x396    │ 1570    │                    │         │       │
│ video=2812000  │ 960x540    │ 2812    │                    │         │       │
│ video=5070000  │ 1280x720   │ 5070    │                    │         │       │
│ video=12000000 │ 1920x1080  │ 8490    │                    │         │       │
└────────────────┴────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴───────┘

[LastResort]

That's what I thought Iamghost,

but this particular episode has no series. it's a one off episode from comedy shorts..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t/comedy-shorts-mandy

i tried "freevine.py -i -e "comedy-shorts-mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t" but this failed.

[iamghost]

wrong
freevine.py -i -e "comedy-shorts-mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t

correct
freevine.py -i -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t/comedy-shorts-mandy (with episode link)
or
freevine.py -i -e "comedy shorts mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065rvxv (with programmes main link)

[LastResort]

Thank you iamghost,..

freevine.py -i -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t/comedy-shorts-mandy (with episode link)

this gave me:

[Attachment 75165 - Click to enlarge]


freevine.py -i -e "comedy shorts mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065rvxv

this gave me:


[Attachment 75166 - Click to enlarge]

I have found the pid for this very small programme: p07gy83t

Doing a google search for https://www.google.com/search?q=bbc+p07gy83t&oq=bbc+p07gy83t&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAE...hrome&ie=UTF-8

This shows the single episode in question.

Finally got it to work with the following:

C:\freevine-1.0.0>freevine.py -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07gy83t/comedy-shorts-mandy


[Attachment 75167 - Click to enlarge]

[iamghost]

mine work fine

freevine.py -i -e "comedy shorts mandy" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065rvxv

[Attachment 75177 - Click to enlarge]

[billybanana]

Having some issues with BBC and v1.0.6, whereby I specify the file save path in the command. Other services I've tested today have been ok.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2715]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

D:\Downloads\freevine>freevine.py --episode s01e01 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000nwrb -sv res=720:for=worst --save-dir "D:\Downloads"

10:25:38.170 INFO : Freevine v1.0.6

10:25:38.826 INFO : BBC iPlayer
10:25:41.326 INFO : DNA: 2 Season(s), 14 Episode(s)

10:25:48.669 INFO : DNA S01E01

path empty or file not exists!

Description:
  N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628

The same command works just fine in v1.0.4

 Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2715]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

D:\Downloads\freevine>freevine.py --episode s01e01 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000nwrb -sv res=720:for=worst --save-dir "D:\Downloads"

10:27:36.149 INFO : Freevine v1.0.4

10:27:36.286 INFO : BBC iPlayer
10:27:38.776 INFO : DNA: 2 Season(s), 14 Episode(s)

10:27:46.280 INFO : DNA S01E01

10:27:46.443 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
10:27:46.465 INFO : Loading URL: tmp\manifest.mpd
10:27:46.466 INFO : Content Matched: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
10:27:46.467 INFO : Parsing streams...
10:27:46.506 WARN : Writing meta json
10:27:46.506 INFO : Extracted, there are 6 streams, with 5 basic streams, 1 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
10:27:46.507 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 8490 Kbps | video=12000000 | avc3.640020 | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
10:27:46.507 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 5070 Kbps | video=5070000 | avc3.640020 | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
10:27:46.507 INFO : Vid 960x540 | 2812 Kbps | video=2812000 | avc3.64001F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
10:27:46.507 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 1570 Kbps | video=1570000 | avc3.64001F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
10:27:46.507 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 827 Kbps | video=827000 | avc3.4D401F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
10:27:46.507 INFO : Aud audio_eng_1=128000 | 128 Kbps | mp4a.40.2 | en | 2CH | 608 Segments | ~38m54s

[stabbedbybrick]

I'm not able to reproduce the error:

python freevine.py --episode s01e01 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000nwrb -sv res=720:for=worst --save-dir "~/Downloads"

08:26:39.273 INFO : Freevine v1.0.6

08:26:40.476 INFO : BBC iPlayer
08:26:41.254 INFO : DNA: 2 Season(s), 14 Episode(s)

08:26:43.694 INFO : DNA S01E01

08:26:43.978 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
08:26:44.068 INFO : Loading URL: tmp/manifest.mpd
08:26:44.069 INFO : Content Matched: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
08:26:44.069 INFO : Parsing streams...
08:26:44.276 WARN : Writing meta json
08:26:44.276 INFO : Extracted, there are 6 streams, with 5 basic streams, 1 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
08:26:44.277 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 8490 Kbps | video=12000000 | avc3.640020 | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
08:26:44.278 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 5070 Kbps | video=5070000 | avc3.640020 | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
08:26:44.279 INFO : Vid 960x540 | 2812 Kbps | video=2812000 | avc3.64001F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
08:26:44.279 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 1570 Kbps | video=1570000 | avc3.64001F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
08:26:44.280 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 827 Kbps | video=827000 | avc3.4D401F | 608 Segments | ~38m54s
08:26:44.281 INFO : Aud audio_eng_1=128000 | 128 Kbps | mp4a.40.2 | en | 2CH | 608 Segments | ~38m54s

If the save path fails, it should do so for all services and not just for one. I guess you could try putting the URL at the end of the command line, just in case the order is messing up the creation of the path somehow. But I'm not sure why only BBC would fail for you if others work.

[billybanana]

I'm not able to reproduce the error:

ok thanks stabby. Will poke around to try to figure it out.

[Tom Saurus]

TubiTV is defaulting to decriptive audio track for movies they are adding as of late.

C:\freevine-1.0.6>freevine.py -i -m https://tubitv.com/movies/695335/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum

13:21:00.039 INFO : Freevine v1.0.6

13:21:00.746 INFO : TubiTV
13:21:01.735 INFO : John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)

John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)
┌──────────┬────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──── ─────┬───────┐
│ Video ID │ Resolution │ Bitrate │ Audio ID │ Bitrate │ Codec │
├──────────┼────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──── ─────┼───────┤
│ Vid │ 640x360 │ 838 │ Audio │ 0 │ None │
│ Vid │ 854x480 │ 1535 │ Audio │ 0 │ None │
│ Vid │ 1024x576 │ 2223 │ Audio │ 0 │ None │
│ Vid │ 1280x720 │ 2944 │ Audio │ 0 │ None │
└──────────┴────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴──── ─────┴───────┘

C:\freevine-1.0.6>freevine.py -sv res=480 -m https://tubitv.com/movies/695335/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum

13:22:28.003 INFO : Freevine v1.0.6

13:22:39.902 INFO : TubiTV
13:22:41.002 INFO : John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)

13:22:43.457 INFO : John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)
13:22:43.470 INFO : aaa7a53bd98f4b90813d572943b90ca0:fd7fcb9f82bcd6e25 5c77a6b3366e94a

13:22:43.638 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
13:22:43.660 INFO : Loading URL: https://manifest.production-public.tubi.io/916d6973-78da-45a3-84ec-7cddc42dd337/p708du...&manifest=true
13:22:44.128 INFO : Content Matched: HTTP Live Streaming
13:22:44.129 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:22:44.133 WARN : Master List detected, try parse all streams
13:22:44.140 WARN : Writing meta json
13:22:44.142 INFO : Extracted, there are 6 streams, with 4 basic streams, 2 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
13:22:44.143 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 2555 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.640028
13:22:44.143 INFO : Vid 1024x576 | 1964 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.640028
13:22:44.144 INFO : Vid 854x480 | 1359 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.640028
13:22:44.145 INFO : Vid 640x360 | 667 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.4d401e
13:22:44.145 INFO : Aud default-audio-group | English - Audio Description | en | 2CH
13:22:44.146 INFO : Aud default-audio-group | English | en | 2CH
13:22:44.147 INFO : Parsing streams...
13:22:44.704 INFO : Selected streams:
13:22:44.705 INFO : Vid *SAMPLE_AES_CTR 854x480 | 1359 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.640028 | 2350 Segments | ~02h10m44s
13:22:44.706 INFO : Aud *SAMPLE_AES_CTR default-audio-group | English - Audio Description | en | 2CH | 3923 Segments |
~02h10m45s
13:22:44.706 WARN : Writing meta json
13:22:44.723 INFO : Save Name: John.Wick.Chapter.3.Parabellum.2019.480p.TUBi.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264
13:22:44.723 WARN : MuxAfterDone is detected, binary merging is automatically enabled
13:22:44.725 INFO : Start downloading...Vid 854x480 | 1359 Kbps | 23.974 | avc1.640028
13:22:44.725 INFO : Start downloading...Aud default-audio-group | English - Audio Description | en | 2CH
13:22:44.918 WARN : Type: cenc
13:22:44.922 WARN : PSSH(WV): EhCqp6U72Y9LkIE9VylDuQygSOPclZsG
13:22:44.922 WARN : Type: cenc
13:22:44.925 WARN : KID: aaa7a53bd98f4b90813d572943b90ca0
13:27:32.813 INFO : Binary merging...
13:40:33.738 INFO : Decrypting...

Vid 854x480 | 1359 Kbps | 23.974 --------------------------------- 80% 929.63MB/1.13GB 1009.76KBps 00:03:33 /
Aud English - Audio Description | en | 2CH --------------------------------- 100% 123.28MB - 00:00:00

I would like to know how to handle this both by what I write in freevine and perhaps how to handle it in Tubi Config. The Tubi Config is different now than it was awhile back when I ran across this problem with "Birds Of Prey". Thank you advance for guidance on this issue.

I went back to the answer earlier in the thread and applied the code to the main config file and it seems to have worked. Hopefully it doesn't cause a problem with other services beyond TubiTV. Here is the link:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411643-Freevine-A-downloader-for-free-streaming-se...e9#post2711638

[billybanana]

But I'm not sure why only BBC would fail for you if others work.

This really has me stumped. The change was from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. I see you did some changes to the path logic with the 1.0.5 release, so I'm assuming it's in there somewhere with the handoff from freevine to N_m3u8DL-RE.

This command fails "path empty or file not exists"

freevine.py --episode  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001t437/match-of-the-day-202324-02122023 --save-dir "D:\Downloads"  -sv res=360

So I grabbed the MPD for the same stream and passed this command directly to N_m3u8DL-RE and it saves the files into the --save-dir no issue

N_m3u8DL-RE "https://mm.bidi.bbc.co.uk/vod-dash-uk/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr_full_hd/a6051c-p0g3zrnj/vf_p0g3zrnj_ffa3f451-cdb0-4024-a6e8-4e7e3a5375b9.ism/pc_hd_abr_v2_dash_master.mpd?at=HOGz7ohyd3912963f48bedbd4295e4cdac8e4b18450f8c0e60b922f99c000" --save-name "pc_hd_abr_v2_dash_master" --save-dir "D:\Downloads"

This only impacts BBC streams. I tried all others again and they save in the specified save directory no problem.

[stabbedbybrick]

[
This really has me stumped. The change was from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. I see you did some changes to the path logic with the 1.0.5 release, so I'm assuming it's in there somewhere with the handoff from freevine to N_m3u8DL-RE.

It's just a small change that checks for and adds a new directory if "--save-dir" is used. It's the same logic as for the save dir set in the config. It happens outside of any service, which is why all of them should fail if that were the issue.

But considering it fails only on BBC, and it works for me on Linux, this issue seems related to Windows or, more specifically, your system. If any other Windows users here feel like reporting in, that would be helpful.

In the meantime, you can try debugging N_m3u8DL-RE:

In /utils/args.py, at the very bottom, you'll find the function for which options to use with N_m3u8DL-RE. Uncomment the log level and set it to DEBUG:

# "--log-level",
        # "OFF",

"--log-level",
        "DEBUG",

That should hopefully give you some kind of clarity of what's going on.

[billybanana]

If any other Windows users here feel like reporting in, that would be helpful

In the meantime, you can try debugging N_m3u8DL-RE:

Yeah hopefully someone else on Windows can have a look too I hate it when I can't figure things out like this

The log files only seems to get created where N_m3u8DL-RE has done something. The process doesn't get that far with the BBC. It's all very odd.

You can see with this C5 example the directory path is picked up correctly and continues on as normal.

LOG 2023/12/03
Save Path: D:\Downloads\freevine-1.0.6\Logs
Task Start: 2023/12/03 16:33:57
Task CommandLine: .\N_m3u8DL-RE.EXE https://akadash0.akamaized.net/hydra/C5173820001/C5173820001B/20230120114119/C5173820001.mpd -mt --auto-subtitle-fix true --thread-count 16 --save-name Criminals.Caught.On.Camera.S01E01.Drunken.Chaos.360p.MY5.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264 --tmp-dir temp --save-dir D:\Downloads --key-text-file tmp\keys.txt -sv res=360 -sa for=best -ss all -M format=mkv:muxer=mkvmerge:skip_sub=false

[SE14man]

Hey

Been getting this same error all day. Lost count of how many times I tried. Seems to be a few episodes on various BBC iPlayer series it doesn't like. Used 3 different VPNs and 2 Smart DNS's and still same error thrown back.

Any ideas?


[Attachment 75229 - Click to enlarge]


(The Met Episode 4 of Series 4 in 1080)

[billybanana]

Hey

Been getting this same error all day. Lost count of how many times I tried. Seems to be a few episodes on various BBC iPlayer series it doesn't like. Used 3 different VPNs and 2 Smart DNS's and still same error thrown back.

(The Met Episode 4 of Series 4 in 1080)

Worked 1st go for me. I'm using dns4me.net as my smartDNS service.

18:05:52.469 INFO : Binary merging...
18:05:57.727 WARN : The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mp4
18:05:57.728 WARN : The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.en.m4a
18:05:57.729 WARN : The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.srt
18:05:57.730 WARN : Muxing to The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.MUX.mkv
18:05:57.731 DEBUG: D:\Downloads\freevine-1.0.6\mkvmerge.exe: -q --output "downloads\The Met\Season 
04\The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.MUX.mkv"  --no-chapters  --language 0:"und"  "downloads\The Met\Season 
04\The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mp4"  --language 0:"eng"  --track-name 0:"English"  "downloads\The 
Met\Season 04\The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.en.m4a"  --language 0:"eng"  --track-name 0:"English"  
"downloads\The Met\Season 04\The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.srt" 
18:06:08.255 WARN : Cleaning files...
18:06:08.597 WARN : Rename to The.Met.S04E04.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv
18:06:08.716 INFO : Done

[SE14man]

hey!

Aah ok im using dns4me for me as well

I may also do the upgrade to latest freevine. Is it quite straight forward? I don't need to install any additional requirements to go from 1.04 to the latest? Do I need to install a venv again to the freevine 1.06 dir?

Thanks

edit: All good managed to get 1.06 working

[billybanana]

Yeah hopefully someone else on Windows can have a look too

I spun up a brand new Windows 11 VM, installed everything from scratch and the same behaviour is exhibited for BBC streams. Must be something peculiar about Windows config. Dunno, anyway I give up on that one for now. I'll stick with 1.0.4 for the time being.

[durmonator]

Hey, thank you so much for this tool, did you ever get to the bottom with iplayer and subs? I can always use get_iplayer and have no problem using that, but if I can get subtitles to download using this, it would mean that I can just use the one tool in future! Thanks!

[stabbedbybrick]

I spun up a brand new Windows 11 VM, installed everything from scratch and the same behaviour is exhibited for BBC streams. Must be something peculiar about Windows config. Dunno, anyway I give up on that one for now. I'll stick with 1.0.4 for the time being.

After some nightmarish troubleshooting, I think I managed to narrow it down to Windows paths messing up the subtitles import function. When forcing --save-dir with a "C:\" it fails to read the path properly. And the older version (v1.0.4) puts the subtitles in another folder before importing, which is probably why that's working. Ugh, Windows...

Hey, thank you so much for this tool, did you ever get to the bottom with iplayer and subs? I can always use get_iplayer and have no problem using that, but if I can get subtitles to download using this, it would mean that I can just use the one tool in future! Thanks!

I think so? I'm not sure what issues you're referring to, but they seem to work fine. Although, I wouldn't delete get_iplayer completely. There's always something odd going on at BBC and get_iplayer is a more comprehensive tool.

[durmonator]

Hey, thank you so much for this tool, did you ever get to the bottom with iplayer and subs? I can always use get_iplayer and have no problem using that, but if I can get subtitles to download using this, it would mean that I can just use the one tool in future! Thanks!

I think so? I'm not sure what issues you're referring to, but they seem to work fine. Although, I wouldn't delete get_iplayer completely. There's always something odd going on at BBC and get_iplayer is a more comprehensive tool.

python3 freevine.py -e https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007chx2/the-royle-family-the-queen-of-sheba 

10:46:40.912 INFO : Freevine v1.0.6

10:46:41.124 INFO : BBC iPlayer
10:46:42.175 INFO : The Royle Family The Queen of Sheba

10:46:42.256 INFO : N_m3u8DL-RE (Beta version) 20230628
10:46:42.285 INFO : Loading URL: tmp/manifest.mpd
10:46:42.285 INFO : Content Matched: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
10:46:42.285 INFO : Parsing streams...
10:46:42.322 WARN : Writing meta json
10:46:42.322 INFO : Extracted, there are 6 streams, with 5 basic streams, 1 audio streams, 0 subtitle streams
10:46:42.322 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 8490 Kbps | video=12000000 | avc3.640020 | 
889 Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Vid 1280x720 | 5070 Kbps | video=5070000 | avc3.640020 | 889
Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Vid 960x540 | 2812 Kbps | video=2812000 | avc3.64001F | 889 
Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 1570 Kbps | video=1570000 | avc3.64001F | 889 
Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Vid 704x396 | 827 Kbps | video=827000 | avc3.4D401F | 889 
Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Aud audio_eng_1=128000 | 128 Kbps | mp4a.40.2 | en | 2CH | 
889 Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.323 INFO : Parsing streams...
10:46:42.325 INFO : Selected streams:
10:46:42.325 INFO : Vid 1920x1080 | 8490 Kbps | video=12000000 | avc3.640020 | 
889 Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.325 INFO : Aud audio_eng_1=128000 | 128 Kbps | mp4a.40.2 | en | 2CH | 
889 Segments | ~56m53s
10:46:42.326 WARN : Writing meta json
10:46:42.326 INFO : Save Name: 
The.Royle.Family.The.Queen.of.Sheba.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264

As you can see, this episode has subs in iPlayer, but the tool doesn't pick them up, downloading the same one with get_iplayer gets the subs, as seen here:

get_iplayer --get https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007chx2/the-royle-family-the-queen-of-sheba --subtitles-only
get_iplayer v3.34
  Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis, 2010- get_iplayer contributors
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.


Episodes:
The Royle Family - The Queen of Sheba, BBC One, b007chx2
INFO: 1 total programmes

INFO: Processing tv: 'The Royle Family - 04. The Queen of Sheba (b007chx2)'
INFO: Downloading subtitles [original]

I know I only get the subtitles with get_iplayer, but that was just to show that they were there and available, is there a way to force free vine to grab the subs from iPlayer?

[stabbedbybrick]

If you're referring to this part:

0 subtitle streams

That's because the subtitles on iPlayer aren't a part of the manifest, so N_m3u8DL-RE doesn't log them. They are downloaded separately and later placed and/or muxed with video, depending on what options you choose.

The.Royle.Family.The.Queen.of.Sheba.1080p.iP.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.srt