Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you for finding a solution and sharing it.

[LastResort]

Hi everyone,
I Hope someone can help me out with this please.... I'm not an avid downloader so i'm usually a few weeks behind what is going on. but I have updated my twinvine tonight, and attempted to run envied... but I am receiving an error that i have not seen before...
C:\Twinvine\TwinVine>uv run envied
ERROR: The 'scene_naming' option has been removed.
Please configure 'output_template' in your envied.yaml instead.
See unshackle-example.yaml for examples.
my problem is that I have no idea where my envied.yaml actually is... I've got everything crossed that someone can point me in the right direction please.

Found it....... (one small problem, without wrecking my envied.yaml what do I actually add to it as the output template). okay, I decided to simply add my all4 creds to envied-working-example.yaml and rename it to envied.yaml.

(kept a copy of my original version that had been working fine)

first attempt at downloading I managed to get a little further, but before i had a chance to capture the fault my powershell kind of reset itself... okay i just managed to capture what it said:

ownload Failed...
Output directory does not exist: Temp\Video_6d0caa2f.mp4_segments
An unexpected error occurred in one of the download workers.
See the error trace above for more information.
then it reset itself...

this is really odd because up until about three weeks ago this was all working fine..

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Hi everyone,
I Hope someone can help me out with this please.... I'm not an avid downloader so i'm usually a few weeks behind what is going on. but I have updated my twinvine tonight, and attempted to run envied... but I am receiving an error that i have not seen before...
C:\Twinvine\TwinVine>uv run envied
ERROR: The 'scene_naming' option has been removed.
Please configure 'output_template' in your envied.yaml instead.
See unshackle-example.yaml for examples.
my problem is that I have no idea where my envied.yaml actually is... I've got everything crossed that someone can point me in the right direction please.

There have been changes to the way downloads are named and scene-naming is no longer an option.
Find envied-example.yaml and look near the top for new choices for naming downloads. Either copy the whole of that file to become envied.yaml as you did at first install, but if you want to keep any edits you have made to envied.yaml, just copy the naming section.
You will find both files in TwinVine/packages/envied/src/envied/

[LastResort]

Thank you Angela,.... (trying to download from all4) it starts to download then suddenly throws a wobbler).... i'm sure I saw a switch that would stop it from resetting allowing me to see the full error. p.s. I did as you said,.... I used the envied working example yaml file, renamed it to envied.yaml and added my download folder dir to it.
You will find both files in TwinVine/packages/envied/src/envied/ (yes that's the folder i used). should I delete any of the "#" from the beginning of the entries:
such as these:
output_template:
# Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
#movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{so urce}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{ hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
#series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}. {repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{ hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
#songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{sour ce?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'
#
# Plex-friendly naming (space-separated, clean format)
movies: '{title} ({year})'
series: '{title} {season_episode} {episode_name?}'
songs: '{track_number}. {title}'
#
# Minimal naming (basic info only)
# movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}'
# series: '{title}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}'
#
# Custom scene-style with specific elements
# movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{video}-{tag}'
# series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}. {quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{video}-{tag}'

It feels like i'm just an inch away from sorting this out, seeing as the file starts to download perfectly....
--------------------------------------------------------------
I managed to capture a little more:

Cached 1 Key to 1/1 Vaults

1 Video
└── [H.264, SDR] | en | 1920x1080 @ 5588 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
⠋ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • --:-- • Parsing streams...
1 Audio
└── [AAC] | en | 2.0 | 137 kb/s
⠙ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • --:-- • Parsing streams...
1 Subtitle
└── [VTT] | en
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:00 • Downloaded
5 Chapters
├── 00:00:00.000 | Chapter 01
├── 00:09:21.320 | Chapter 02
├── 00:29:17.320 | Chapter 03
├── 00:37:41.080 | Chapter 04
└── 00:46:51.080 | Credits

Widevine(AAAASnBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAA CoIARIQJ3TbgtIGo...)
└── 2774db82d206a09eaf235c7ebbb52d47:718b7b8851e96d336 5c09010c61e8a52*


❌ Download Failed...
Output directory does not exist:
C:\Twinvine\TwinVine\Temp\Audio_77c6e582.mp4_segme nts
An unexpected error occurred in one of the download workers.
See the error trace above for more information.


edit 2: attempted to try the shortest thing i could find on itvx and it does exactly the same, it starts to download then falls over itself.

[LastResort]

Hi Angela,

I'm not really sure what I have done, but it now seems to be working fine. Most of the executables are still the originals from when i first installed twinvine. So nothing has been updated. I decided to update dovi_tool.exe, N_m3u8DL-RE.exe, and i changed one of the items within config.yaml from TERMINAL_RESET: true to TERMINAL_RESET: false. (so I could catch any errors). and now for some unknown reason apart from what I did above I have managed to download from i.t.v.x completely fine. albite a rather short filename. the longer filename showing episode number and 720 or 1080 would be good, but i'm just thankful that its now working.

[patashin]

hi, does twinvine works on macos?

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Hi Angela,

I'm not really sure what I have done, but it now seems to be working fine. Most of the executables are still the originals from when i first installed twinvine. So nothing has been updated. I decided to update dovi_tool.exe, N_m3u8DL-RE.exe, and i changed one of the items within config.yaml from TERMINAL_RESET: true to TERMINAL_RESET: false. (so I could catch any errors). and now for some unknown reason apart from what I did above I have managed to download from i.t.v.x completely fine. albite a rather short filename. the longer filename showing episode number and 720 or 1080 would be good, but i'm just thankful that its now working.

Glad it is working. If you get any other problems do a 'git pull' inside your C:\TwinVine\Twinvine folder and the run the installation script Install-media-tools.ps1 to install the correct binary versions of the tools TwinVine uses.

As it is set up the choice of Plex Style Naming is made already

# Example outputs:
# Scene movies: 'The.Matrix.1999.1080p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-EXAMPLE'
# Scene movies (HDR): 'Dune.2021.2160p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.HDR10.H.265-EXAMPLE'
# Scene movies (REPACK): 'Dune.2021.REPACK.2160p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.265-EXAMPLE'
# Scene series: 'Breaking.Bad.2008.S01E01.Pilot.1080p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-EXAMPLE'
# Plex movies: 'The Matrix (1999)'
# Plex series: 'Breaking Bad S01E01 Pilot'
output_template:
  # Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
  #movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  #series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  #songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{source?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'
  #
  # Plex-friendly naming (space-separated, clean format)
  movies: '{title} ({year})'
  series: '{title} {season_episode} {episode_name?}'
  songs: '{track_number}. {title}'
  #
  # Minimal naming (basic info only)
  # movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}'
  # series: '{title}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}'
  #
  # Custom scene-style with specific elements
  # movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{video}-{tag}'
  # series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{video}-{tag}' 

If you want scene naming

# Example outputs:
# Scene movies: 'The.Matrix.1999.1080p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-EXAMPLE'
# Scene movies (HDR): 'Dune.2021.2160p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.HDR10.H.265-EXAMPLE'
# Scene movies (REPACK): 'Dune.2021.REPACK.2160p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.265-EXAMPLE'
# Scene series: 'Breaking.Bad.2008.S01E01.Pilot.1080p.SERVICE.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-EXAMPLE'
# Plex movies: 'The Matrix (1999)'
# Plex series: 'Breaking Bad S01E01 Pilot'
output_template:
  # Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
  movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{source?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'
  #
  # Plex-friendly naming (space-separated, clean format)
  #movies: '{title} ({year})'
  #series: '{title} {season_episode} {episode_name?}'
  #songs: '{track_number}. {title}'
  #
  # Minimal naming (basic info only)
  # movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}'
  # series: '{title}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}'
  #
  # Custom scene-style with specific elements
  # movies: '{title}.{year}.{quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{video}-{tag}'
  # series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{quality}.{hdr?}.{source}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{video}-{tag}' 

but with this system you can edit the style - if you want hyphen instead of a full-stop just replace . with - And if you don't want episode names just delete {episode_name?}. And likewise anything else - you can change the order of things too. just keep to the general rule:-

{feature-name?}spacer

If you are setting a tag then that needs to be defined as

tag:  'AnnWiddecombe'

for example

Since you are on Windows, a terminal reset is unnecessary.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

hi, does twinvine works on macos?

Yes, But you need to run it inside a container or virtual environment. See this thread about a Docker image (container) https://github.com/vinefeeder/TwinVine/issues/1
There is no support for this but at least two people have it running on MacOS.

I myself run linux. Sometimes I need other linux versions or even Windows to test stuff against and love the ease of setting up a virtual machine. I just asked a web-search engine about running virtual machine on MacOS and got this helpful reply.


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[NitroHedgehog]

Hello everyone. I'm new to Python, and I've been struggling for 6 hours straight making a brand new unshackle.yaml file. I looked at the example, and I still don't get it how to work... I wanted to get a TV show from The Roku Channel, but because I'm not in the USA, I can't watch it... not even with a paid VPN. However I managed to rip the URLs of the episodes. It is not available anywhere else on the Internet (I searched for MONTHS, NO results)

Can someone show me what a working unshackle.yaml file for Roku TV looks like? (be sure to replace personal info with something like 'NOPE' when posting it here to avoid leaking confidential info such as real names)

My Unshackle folder is located at C:\unshackle. Simple location, but I can't get it to run... Sorry if I sound dumb.

[iamghost]

unshackle.yaml located...
C:\unshackle\unshackle\unshackle.yaml
Im in uk to get roku video, I have to use VPN to get them working
you will need get roku service for unshackle

[deccavox]

TVNZ has made some recent changes. Up until recently I was able to connect and stream/ download content using a VPN connected to a NZ IP. Now, I get 'Failed to load application configuration. Please try again later.' That is on a Windows 10 PC. Other colleagues are getting the same with diferent VPN services. We've tried Surfshark, Nord and Hotspot.
I have managed to connect to TVNZ now by going incognito in my browser. It seems my normal location is cached for TVNZ to see, so no VPN will fool it. With the recent changes, you are asked to re-login. I can now stream on TVNZ and select individual show URLs. However, none of the versions of unshackle now seem to work (a shit load of errors occur). I'm suspecting the API used has changed. Can anybody advise/ help please.

[NitroHedgehog]

unshackle.yaml located...
C:\unshackle\unshackle\unshackle.yaml
Im in uk to get roku video, I have to use VPN to get them working
you will need get roku service for unshackle

I know all of that. What I meant is HOW to CREATE a unshackle.yaml file to make it work with the software. There was a DL link here on VideoHelp with premade files, but it got deleted and can no longer be downloaded...

[iamghost]

create like this...

# Group or Username to postfix to the end of all download filenames following a dash

tag: 

# Set terminal background color (custom option not in CONFIG.md)

tag_imdb_tmdb: false

set_terminal_bg: false

# Muxing configuration

muxing:
  set_title: false
  
output_template:
  # Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
  movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{source?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'

# Login credentials for each Service

credentials:
  ALL4: email:password
  TVNZ: email:password
  EXAMPLE: email@example.com:password
  EXAMPLE2: username:password

# Override default directories used across unshackle

directories:
  services: ./unshackle/services
  cache: ./Cache
  cookies: ./Cookies
  dcsl: DCSL # Device Certificate Status List

  downloads: ./Downloads
  logs: ./Logs
  temp: ./Temp
  wvds: ./WVDs
  prds: ./PRDs
  # Additional directories that can be configured:

  # commands: Commands

  # services: Services

  # vaults: Vaults

  # fonts: Fonts


# Pre-define which Widevine or PlayReady device to use for each Service

Dependencies:
  Shaka-Packager: ./Shaka-Packager.exe
  
decryption:
  MY5: mp4decrypt
  UKTV: mp4decrypt
  AUBC: mp4decrypt

cdm:
  default: andriod_L3
  ALL4: playready_SL3000
  
remote_cdm:
- name: chrome
  device_name: chrome
  device_type: CHROME
  system_id: 27175
  security_level: 3
  host: https://domain.com/api
  secret: secret_key
- name: chrome-2
  device_name: chrome
  device_type: CHROME
  system_id: 26830
  security_level: 3
  host: https://domain-2.com/api
  secret: secret_key

key_vaults:
- type: SQLite
  name: Local
  path: key_store.db


downloader:

  TEN: n_m3u8dl_re
  ALL4: requests
  CBC: requests
  SBS: aria2c
  SEVEN: aria2c
  STV: aria2c
  iP: aria2c
  AUBC: aria2c 
  CBS: requests
  CTV: aria2c
  CWTV: aria2c
  ITV: aria2c
  MY5: requests
  PLUTO: aria2c
  ROKU: aria2c
  RTE: aria2c
  TUBI: n_m3u8dl_re
  TVNZ: aria2c
  UKTV: aria2c
  AMZN: aria2c
  TVNZ: aria2c
  MGMP: aria2c
  ATV: aria2c
  STZ: aria2c
  CRAV: requests

headers:
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

aria2c:
  max_concurrent_downloads: 4
  max_connection_per_server: 3
  split: 5
  file_allocation: falloc # none | prealloc | falloc | trunc

n_m3u8dl_re:
  thread_count: 16
  ad_keyword: advertisement
  use_proxy: false

curl_impersonate:
  browser: chrome120

dl:
  best: true
  sub_format: srt
  downloads: 4
  workers: 16
  lang:
  - en

  EXAMPLE:
    bitrate: CBR

# Chapter Name to use when exporting a Chapter without a Name

chapter_fallback_name: Chapter {j:02}

# Case-Insensitive dictionary of headers for all Services

headers:
  Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 
    (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36

# Override default filenames used across unshackle

filenames:
  log: unshackle_{name}_{time}.log
  config: config.yaml
  root_config: unshackle.yaml
  chapters: Chapters_{title}_{random}.txt
  subtitle: Subtitle_{id}_{language}.srt

# API key for The Movie Database (TMDB)

tmdb_api_key: ''

# Configuration for pywidevine's serve functionality

serve:
  users:
    secret_key_for_user:
      devices:
      - generic_nexus_4464_l3
      username: user
  # devices:

  #   - '/path/to/device.wvd'

[NitroHedgehog]

create like this...

# Group or Username to postfix to the end of all download filenames following a dash

tag: 

# Set terminal background color (custom option not in CONFIG.md)

tag_imdb_tmdb: false

set_terminal_bg: false

# Muxing configuration

muxing:
  set_title: false
  
output_template:
  # Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
  movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{source?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'

# Login credentials for each Service

credentials:
  ALL4: email:password
  TVNZ: email:password
  EXAMPLE: email@example.com:password
  EXAMPLE2: username:password

# Override default directories used across unshackle

directories:
  services: ./unshackle/services
  cache: ./Cache
  cookies: ./Cookies
  dcsl: DCSL # Device Certificate Status List

  downloads: ./Downloads
  logs: ./Logs
  temp: ./Temp
  wvds: ./WVDs
  prds: ./PRDs
  # Additional directories that can be configured:

  # commands: Commands

  # services: Services

  # vaults: Vaults

  # fonts: Fonts


# Pre-define which Widevine or PlayReady device to use for each Service

Dependencies:
  Shaka-Packager: ./Shaka-Packager.exe
  
decryption:
  MY5: mp4decrypt
  UKTV: mp4decrypt
  AUBC: mp4decrypt

cdm:
  default: andriod_L3
  ALL4: playready_SL3000
  
remote_cdm:
- name: chrome
  device_name: chrome
  device_type: CHROME
  system_id: 27175
  security_level: 3
  host: https://domain.com/api
  secret: secret_key
- name: chrome-2
  device_name: chrome
  device_type: CHROME
  system_id: 26830
  security_level: 3
  host: https://domain-2.com/api
  secret: secret_key

key_vaults:
- type: SQLite
  name: Local
  path: key_store.db


downloader:

  TEN: n_m3u8dl_re
  ALL4: requests
  CBC: requests
  SBS: aria2c
  SEVEN: aria2c
  STV: aria2c
  iP: aria2c
  AUBC: aria2c 
  CBS: requests
  CTV: aria2c
  CWTV: aria2c
  ITV: aria2c
  MY5: requests
  PLUTO: aria2c
  ROKU: aria2c
  RTE: aria2c
  TUBI: n_m3u8dl_re
  TVNZ: aria2c
  UKTV: aria2c
  AMZN: aria2c
  TVNZ: aria2c
  MGMP: aria2c
  ATV: aria2c
  STZ: aria2c
  CRAV: requests

headers:
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

aria2c:
  max_concurrent_downloads: 4
  max_connection_per_server: 3
  split: 5
  file_allocation: falloc # none | prealloc | falloc | trunc

n_m3u8dl_re:
  thread_count: 16
  ad_keyword: advertisement
  use_proxy: false

curl_impersonate:
  browser: chrome120

dl:
  best: true
  sub_format: srt
  downloads: 4
  workers: 16
  lang:
  - en

  EXAMPLE:
    bitrate: CBR

# Chapter Name to use when exporting a Chapter without a Name

chapter_fallback_name: Chapter {j:02}

# Case-Insensitive dictionary of headers for all Services

headers:
  Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 
    (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36

# Override default filenames used across unshackle

filenames:
  log: unshackle_{name}_{time}.log
  config: config.yaml
  root_config: unshackle.yaml
  chapters: Chapters_{title}_{random}.txt
  subtitle: Subtitle_{id}_{language}.srt

# API key for The Movie Database (TMDB)

tmdb_api_key: ''

# Configuration for pywidevine's serve functionality

serve:
  users:
    secret_key_for_user:
      devices:
      - generic_nexus_4464_l3
      username: user
  # devices:

  #   - '/path/to/device.wvd'

Thank you very much. However, after slightly editing it (such as the path to my .wvd file, named ''tool.wvd'') I get these errors when typing
uv run unshackle dl ROKU https://therokuchannel.roku.com/watch/XYZ (''XYZ'' being the episode's ID number, want to keep confidential)


File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\__main__.py", line 14, in <module>
from unshackle.core.commands import Commands
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\commands.py", line 12, in <module>
_MODULES = {path.stem: getattr(import_module_by_path(path), path.stem) for path in _COMMANDS}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\commands.py", line 12, in <dictcomp>
_MODULES = {path.stem: getattr(import_module_by_path(path), path.stem) for path in _COMMANDS}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\utilities.py", line 113, in import_module_by_path
spec.loader.exec_module(module)
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\commands\dl.py", line 47, in <module>
from unshackle.core.cdm import CustomRemoteCDM, DecryptLabsRemoteCDM
ImportError: cannot import name 'CustomRemoteCDM' from 'unshackle.core.cdm' (C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\cdm\__init__.py)

I heard Roku Channel is free, but with ads (like Youtube). I hope I musn't create an account, otherwise I'm screwed... (non-US resident)

Have I missed a step or made a mistake? I used Windows CMD to boot Unshackle BTW.

[iamghost]

are your using remote api?
show me your unshackle yaml,
just cdm one,

cdm:
  default: andriod_L3

do you have WVDs and PRDs folder under unshackle folder?

[NitroHedgehog]

are your using remote api?
show me your unshackle yaml,
just cdm one,

cdm:
  default: andriod_L3

do you have WVDs and PRDs folder under unshackle folder?

Whoops... I have no API remote, nor any credimentals to any websites exept Tubi... should I delete that part in my .yaml? And what should I put into the PRD folder? Seems like I'm missing something... I do have plenty of WVDs, though.

Well, here's what's inside my .yaml file. I used a premade base, but I dunno what to change to make it work... As I said, I'm new to coding.

# Group or Username to postfix to the end of all download filenames following a dash

tag: NOPE

# Set terminal background color (custom option not in CONFIG.md)

tag_imdb_tmdb: false

set_terminal_bg: false

# Muxing configuration

muxing:
  set_title: false
  
output_template:
  # Scene-style naming (dot-separated)
  movies: '{title}.{year}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  series: '{title}.{year?}.{season_episode}.{episode_name?}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{quality}.{source}.WEB-DL.{dual?}.{multi?}.{audio_full}.{atmos?}.{hdr?}.{hfr?}.{video}-{tag}'
  songs: '{track_number}.{title}.{repack?}.{edition?}.{source?}.WEB-DL.{audio_full}.{atmos?}-{tag}'

# Login credentials for each Service

credentials:
  EXAMPLE: email@example.com:password
  EXAMPLE2: username:password

# Override default directories used across unshackle

directories:
  services: ./unshackle/services
  cache: ./Cache
  cookies: ./Cookies
  dcsl: DCSL # Device Certificate Status List

  downloads: ./Downloads
  logs: ./Logs
  temp: ./Temp
  wvds: ./WVDs
  prds: ./PRDs
  # Additional directories that can be configured:

  # commands: Commands

  # services: Services

  # vaults: Vaults

  # fonts: Fonts


# Pre-define which Widevine or PlayReady device to use for each Service

Dependencies:
  Shaka-Packager: C:\unshackle\Shaka-Packager.exe
  
decryption:
  MY5: mp4decrypt
  UKTV: mp4decrypt
  AUBC: mp4decrypt

cdm:
  default: android_L3
  ALL4: playready_SL3000
  
remote_cdm:
- name: chrome
  device_name: chrome
  device_type: CHROME
  system_id: 27175
  security_level: 3
  host: https://domain.com/api
  secret: secret_key

key_vaults:
- type: SQLite
  name: Local
  path: key_store.db


downloader:

  TEN: n_m3u8dl_re
  ALL4: requests
  CBC: requests
  SBS: aria2c
  SEVEN: aria2c
  STV: aria2c
  iP: aria2c
  AUBC: aria2c 
  CBS: requests
  CTV: aria2c
  CWTV: aria2c
  ITV: aria2c
  MY5: requests
  PLUTO: aria2c
  ROKU: aria2c
  RTE: aria2c
  TUBI: n_m3u8dl_re
  TVNZ: aria2c
  UKTV: aria2c
  AMZN: aria2c
  TVNZ: aria2c
  MGMP: aria2c
  ATV: aria2c
  STZ: aria2c
  CRAV: requests

headers:
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

aria2c:
  max_concurrent_downloads: 4
  max_connection_per_server: 3
  split: 5
  file_allocation: falloc # none | prealloc | falloc | trunc

n_m3u8dl_re:
  thread_count: 16
  ad_keyword: advertisement
  use_proxy: false

curl_impersonate:
  browser: chrome120

dl:
  best: true
  sub_format: srt
  downloads: 4
  workers: 16
  lang:
  - en

  EXAMPLE:
    bitrate: CBR

# Chapter Name to use when exporting a Chapter without a Name

chapter_fallback_name: Chapter {j:02}

# Case-Insensitive dictionary of headers for all Services

headers:
  Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 
    (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36

# Override default filenames used across unshackle

filenames:
  log: unshackle_{name}_{time}.log
  config: config.yaml
  root_config: unshackle.yaml
  chapters: Chapters_{title}_{random}.txt
  subtitle: Subtitle_{id}_{language}.srt

# API key for The Movie Database (TMDB)

tmdb_api_key: ''

# Configuration for pywidevine's serve functionality

serve:
  users:
    secret_key_for_user:
      devices:
      - generic_nexus_4464_l3
      username: user
  # devices:

  #   - 'C:\unshackle\unshackle\WVDs\tool.wvd'

[iamghost]

is your wvd is tool.wvd if so then change and put it in cdm

cdm:
  default: tool

[Tom Saurus]

NitroHedgehog, one thing to do in the yaml is to point this code to the right places for Unshackle to work with. I have Unshackle set up in C: as well.

An example:

services: C:\Unshackle\unshackle\services
cache: C:\unshackle\Cache
cookies: C:\unshackle\Cookies

Just find the folder the program wants and right click it and select "save as path" then paste that where Unshackle is asking. For example navigate to the unshackle folder that is inside Unshackle and find the services folder and right click and "save as path" and put that in the unshackle yaml.

[Tom Saurus]

I have my Unshackle .yaml and Envied .yaml working again thanks to Angela's posts and iamghost's post. The only thing eluding me in Unshackle even copying how iamghost has the downloader portion set up when it comes to CBS it fails and just won't accept n_m3u8dl-re as the downloader. Thankfully Envied gets me the full video file and I am certainly grateful for that. I also tried less code like iamghost has for the naming at it would not work for me so I have quite a pile of code lines in there for the naming. But I do have it fine tuned now despite all those lines of code to use the Plex Naming option.

[NitroHedgehog]

Thank you guys. Turns out my .yaml file was messed-up, and unable to boot Unshackle. I tried with the sample given with the program, it gave me an error, but DID boot up Unshackle in my CMD command. Seems the lines with "#" are important for the .yaml file to boot up Unskackle. I'll try again tomorrow

[iamghost]

All those # is nothing, it just example for you to read and stop unshackle run from this line

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

TVNZ has made some recent changes. Up until recently I was able to connect and stream/ download content using a VPN connected to a NZ IP. Now, I get 'Failed to load application configuration. Please try again later.' That is on a Windows 10 PC. Other colleagues are getting the same with diferent VPN services. We've tried Surfshark, Nord and Hotspot.
I have managed to connect to TVNZ now by going incognito in my browser. It seems my normal location is cached for TVNZ to see, so no VPN will fool it. With the recent changes, you are asked to re-login. I can now stream on TVNZ and select individual show URLs. However, none of the versions of unshackle now seem to work (a shit load of errors occur). I'm suspecting the API used has changed. Can anybody advise/ help please.

Just as a test I used TwinVine, started vinefeeder and used the category search for drama and selected the first in the list. Vinefeeder completed selection and passed everything to envied to download...


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No time to test anything other than that approach.

[Tom Saurus]

billybanana's Ozvine thread is back and they discuss changes in the Australian and New Zealand services. When billybanna's Ozvine was offline for updates that is when I am among others asked stabbedbybrick to expand his services to address this absence. I got disheartened with the Australian services for U.S. shows that are on there as there is the issue where they have converted them to pal and thus watching the archive downloads is a speed up. It can be corrected with settings in VLC but then I got thinking those kind of settings wouldn't be available in hardware media players and Blu Ray players.

I've been kept busy with the UK, Canadian and U.S. services. But I should check out the Oz and NZ services to see what is new. I am a fan of "Darby & Joan" and I have to see if there is a new season of that out yet.

[WhiskeyJack]

unshackled works fine with TVNZ, you just need to pay attention to the inputs.

no capitals in search query, no leading zeros if the episode number is a single digit (s1-e1 instead of S01E01)

so,
unshackle search tvnz "grand designs new zealand"
will supply the api required name, grand-designs-nz

and
unshackle dl tvnz /shows/grand-designs-nz/episodes/s10-e2


bizarrely, unshackle will only option 720p.
If I do it manually, (yt-dlp, mp4decrypt/shaka, "ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.m4a -c copy -shortest output.mp4", and custom widevine licence intercept) will provide a 1080p in sync.
(Why the use of -shortest, obtain the files manually yourself to find out.)


will download it.

[stabbedbybrick]

TVNZ have revamped their whole backend and started to move away from brightcove. The currently used API might continue to work for a while, but could potentially provide lower quality streams than the new version where 1080p and dolby audio seem more widely available at first glance.

I've messed around a bit and reversed most of the new API, but I'm not sure when I'll have a coherent script out. I'll drop a message in here when I get it sorted.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Part of TVZ email to users 3 April.


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I read that as saying they will be moving to cookies from the old-style login and to get the cookies set you'll need to post a code after you've sent your email address.
Not sure how that will play out.

[LastResort]

Keeping this short and sweet,...
Thank you Angela for the help about "naming". my output and tab is working fine.

on a sidenote: does the p.l.e.x service require a log in... I've tested it but I believe I am not using the correct address for pulling a test movie.
test film is: h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/movie/city-rats (it goes to pull but errors on "there's no video track"
also tried h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/watch/movie/city-rats?uri=provider%3A%2F%2Ftv.plex.provider.vod%2Fl ibrary%2Fmetadata%2F5d776841103a2d001f56a979

this makes no attempt at downloading but part of the error message states raise ValueError(f"Could not parse ID from title: {self
which seems similar to "theres no video track".
(sorry it wasn't that short or sweet).

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Keeping this short and sweet,...
Thank you Angela for the help about "naming". my output and tab is working fine.

on a sidenote: does the p.l.e.x service require a log in... I've tested it but I believe I am not using the correct address for pulling a test movie.
test film is: h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/movie/city-rats (it goes to pull but errors on "there's no video track"
also tried h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/watch/movie/city-rats?uri=provider%3A%2F%2Ftv.plex.provider.vod%2Fl ibrary%2Fmetadata%2F5d776841103a2d001f56a979

this makes no attempt at downloading but part of the error message states raise ValueError(f"Could not parse ID from title: {self
which seems similar to "theres no video track".
(sorry it wasn't that short or sweet).

It's always a good idea to look at the comments in the service code.../services/PLEX/__init__.py


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You can see that SBB is the author. I post services found on the web, but generally don't repair them.

[LastResort]

Keeping this short and sweet,...
Thank you Angela for the help about "naming". my output and tab is working fine.

on a sidenote: does the p.l.e.x service require a log in... I've tested it but I believe I am not using the correct address for pulling a test movie.
test film is: h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/movie/city-rats (it goes to pull but errors on "there's no video track"
also tried h.t.t.p.s://watch.plex.tv/watch/movie/city-rats?uri=provider%3A%2F%2Ftv.plex.provider.vod%2Fl ibrary%2Fmetadata%2F5d776841103a2d001f56a979

this makes no attempt at downloading but part of the error message states raise ValueError(f"Could not parse ID from title: {self
which seems similar to "theres no video track".
(sorry it wasn't that short or sweet).

Thank you Angela..

It's always a good idea to look at the comments in the service code.../services/PLEX/__init__.py


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You can see that SBB is the author. I post services found on the web, but generally don't repair them.

Thank you Angela. Will do.

[billybanana]

And on another note SBS have removed their previous api. Downloads now require a login to obtain a token. I'm updating Ozivine at the moment.
@stabbedbybrick if you want any detail to update Unshackle let me know.