YoutubeVideoDownloader: download video and audio from +900 sites

[MarkDQ]

Does it still work for VTM GO?

See my previous post.

[Stijn M]

Is there an option to add an extra checkmark linked to : --no-check-certificate ?
I'm having issues with URL's that have an https prefix
I've tested this directly with youtube-dl, and it works.
But I can't get the subs to list (even though they are present .. )

[tjock]

Having constantly the same issue since July 18th. Never had it before, although I'm only using Downloader recently.
Seems to work still now and then - approximately every 10 times you run it.
This is what I've tried:
- reinstalled the app - WIN 10 PC
- installed on a laptop with different OS - WIN 8
- tried different locations, same ISE though.
Nothing helped.

[Radovedeh]

Tegenwoordig heb ik dezelfde fout als Stijn M op de vrtnu website. Voorheen werkte alles perfect.
vb. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/als-de-dijken-breken/1/als-de-dijken-breken-s1a1-dijkring-14/

[red2angel]

Tegenwoordig heb ik dezelfde fout als Stijn M op de vrtnu website. Voorheen werkte alles perfect.
vb. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/als-de-dijken-breken/1/als-de-dijken-breken-s1a1-dijkring-14/

Same here.
For example this VRT series;

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/the-orderud-case/1/the-orderud-case-s1a6

Episode 1 and 6 do not work, the others do. Weird.

The ones that didn't I downloaded via http://downloadgemist.be/?page=about , it works but not as userfriendly.


Otherwise, as always, thank you, great tool this TVDownloader thingy, great.

[jschrooyen]

The recent issues with VRT are a pain, but I managed to deal with it through Kamala's suggestion on 18 April.

On my Windows 10 computer, I created a text file called "youtube-dl.conf" in the folder C:\Users\<user name>\ (locate your <user name> in the Users folder).

The contents of this file are as follows:

# Lines starting with # are comments
# --verbose
--no-check-certificate

The "verbose" function has been commented out, but activating it (by removing the #) gives you some insight about the inner workings of TVDownloader.

The single important item is the "--no-check-certificate" that avoids the error message described. The download process is sluggish compared to previous usage, so something is still not quite right, but with some patience it will end up as desired.

Cheers!

[tjock]

thanks! tried it out and works

[Vjannest]

Hello. Works, but no subtitles found. But there are: https://cdn8.tvplayhome.lt/vod/eds/AMB/global/tvplay_avod_plus/2020/06/21/20454373/_/n...H/20454373.mpd

[LZAA]

Url?

[Vjannest]

Url?

https://play.tv3.ee/salatoimikud-10907890

[LZAA]

https://mega.nz/file/FXhQzYIL#L-ydFG5irk4GSgXK5OrwrFkdmSaUVLFZ14LPwKjKDu0

[Vjannest]

https://mega.nz/file/FXhQzYIL#L-ydFG5irk4GSgXK5OrwrFkdmSaUVLFZ14LPwKjKDu0

How did you get this? Hint?

[xplorr]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

[jschrooyen]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

New version is flagged "suspicious" and blocked by F-Secure Client Security: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.

Surely a false positive?

[Baldrick]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

New version is flagged "suspicious" and blocked by F-Secure Client Security: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.

Surely a false positive?

You can always try virustotal and see what several virus programs says.

See https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f5552ea453d6cfa05bd6244226b8c250993c67e246a8e159e7...225d/detection (TVDownloader.exe) . 8 engines warns but as all identifies different "malware" I would say that it's 99% false positive. If several reported same I would be worried.

[xplorr]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

New version is flagged "suspicious" and blocked by F-Secure Client Security: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.

Surely a false positive?

Indeed a false positive.
This is already described earlier in this thread. Because I use a scripting tool htaedit (now called vbsedit from vbsedit.com) which is also used by hackers to pack malicious scripts. Some engines "see" the footprint of this tool in the exe. In previous versions I took the effort to send requests to the major virus scanners to remove the false positives from their scans, but it's a real burden and I stopped doing this, because time-consuming and needs to be done for every new version.
ps. by the way, the virus vendors always proved me right in the past
ps. the false positives are from relatively unknown virus scanners, the major scanners like Avast, Microsoft, Symantec, Norton, AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc mark it as safe.
ps. if you really want to investigate yourself, install Sandboxie and run it there (I did it myself because I wasn't really sure about htaedit in the beginning).

[beantje]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

New version is flagged "suspicious" and blocked by F-Secure Client Security: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.

Surely a false positive?

Indeed a false positive.
This is already described earlier in this thread. Because I use a scripting tool htaedit (now called vbsedit from vbsedit.com) which is also used by hackers to pack malicious scripts. Some engines "see" the footprint of this tool in the exe. In previous versions I took the effort to send requests to the major virus scanners to remove the false positives from their scans, but it's a real burden and I stopped doing this, because time-consuming and needs to be done for every new version.
ps. by the way, the virus vendors always proved me right in the past
ps. the false positives are from relatively unknown virus scanners, the major scanners like Avast, Microsoft, Symantec, Norton, AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc mark it as safe.
ps. if you really want to investigate yourself, install Sandboxie and run it there (I did it myself because I wasn't really sure about htaedit in the beginning).

Thanks for the update, but could it be that VIER does not work anymore ?

[xplorr]

I haven't tried vier.be lately, but many sites are switching over to DRM. TVDownloader does not support DRM protected sites.

[beantje]

I haven't tried vier.be lately, but many sites are switching over to DRM. TVDownloader does not support DRM protected sites.

No there is no DRM
Netgemistdownloader works for VIER

Maby he is not using YouTubedl for his tool

[xplorr]

Thanks for the update, but could it be that VIER does not work anymore ?

You can also try the following:

• Open video in browser (Chrome/Edge/...) but don't start video.
• Right click and select "Inspect" or press CTRL/SHFT/I
• Open "Netwerk" tab in right pane.
• In the filter field type ".m3u8"
• Start the video in the left pane
• Stop the video
• Right click on the first "m3u8" entry and select "Copy Link Address"
• Paste that url in TVDownloader

Good luck

[Seeker47]

Released new version 1.19: fix for vrtnu.be, settings saved in registry (suggested by Ciber SLasH)

New version is flagged "suspicious" and blocked by F-Secure Client Security: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard.

Surely a false positive?

Indeed a false positive.
This is already described earlier in this thread. Because I use a scripting tool htaedit (now called vbsedit from vbsedit.com) which is also used by hackers to pack malicious scripts. Some engines "see" the footprint of this tool in the exe. In previous versions I took the effort to send requests to the major virus scanners to remove the false positives from their scans, but it's a real burden and I stopped doing this, because time-consuming and needs to be done for every new version.
ps. by the way, the virus vendors always proved me right in the past
ps. the false positives are from relatively unknown virus scanners, the major scanners like Avast, Microsoft, Symantec, Norton, AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, etc mark it as safe.
ps. if you really want to investigate yourself, install Sandboxie and run it there (I did it myself because I wasn't really sure about htaedit in the beginning).

Thanks for your detailed reply. This rings rather familiar: other examples (like the NirSoft utilities, which has a long and distinguished history, and whose developers have complained about this for years, having done the reporting to vendors you mentioned but to little avail) come to mind. Also well taken is your point about not all of the vendors being anything approaching equal. Several like Bitdefender and Eset definitely have my respect -- albeit with the caveat about these recurrent categories of false positive -- but other AV vendors are no-name pipsqueaks, not to be taken very seriously. Who the hell is Baidu or Jiangmin anyway ? What have they ever accomplished that might actually place them in the company of Avast, AVG, or Sophos ? I wouldn't put any credence in the Chinese sources, and certainly not when their own state hackers are out there doing nefarious deeds across the political realm and with commercial espionage.

As Baldrick suggests, use VirusTotal and look for patterns (of specific agreement, among the established AV "majors"), but do so with care, reading between the lines.

[beantje]

Thanks for the update, but could it be that VIER does not work anymore ?

You can also try the following:

• Open video in browser (Chrome/Edge/...) but don't start video.
• Right click and select "Inspect" or press CTRL/SHFT/I
• Open "Netwerk" tab in right pane.
• In the filter field type ".m3u8"
• Start the video in the left pane
• Stop the video
• Right click on the first "m3u8" entry and select "Copy Link Address"
• Paste that url in TVDownloader

Good luck

that worked! thanks,

[Penthe]

Downloads on RTLXL are failing since last week. https://www.rtlxl.nl/programma/onderweg-naar-de-regio/02a9de88-5145-337a-a57a-47e2f4dac74e


https://files.videohelp.com/u/278452/Capture.JPG

[xplorr]

As Baldrick suggests, use VirusTotal and look for patterns (of specific agreement, among the established AV "majors"), but do so with care, reading between the lines.

Fully agree with your analysis @Seeker47! Thx!
I use VirusTotal for years and indeed I interpret the results between the lines as @Baldrick did. Thx @Baldrick!

[L1008]

Hi, I was downloading Thuis from VRTnu. Some of the downloads were going great until monday. The next day I got my download and it is keeping saying that the "codec" is missing. Can you fix that?

Thanks for the great programm.

[ChezBompaLawijt]

Hi, I was downloading Thuis from VRTnu. Some of the downloads were going great until monday. The next day I got my download and it is keeping saying that the "codec" is missing. Can you fix that?

Thanks for the great programm.

always give the video url so others can see if they get the same error and if it's not something to do with your pc so give the url of the episode

[L1008]

Hi, I was downloading Thuis from VRTnu. Some of the downloads were going great until monday. The next day I got my download and it is keeping saying that the "codec" is missing. Can you fix that?

Thanks for the great programm.

always give the video url so others can see if they get the same error and if it's not something to do with your pc so give the url of the episode

Sorry, I don 't post a lot here. This is the URL https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/thuis/23/thuis-s23a4301/

[ChezBompaLawijt]

Hi, I was downloading Thuis from VRTnu. Some of the downloads were going great until monday. The next day I got my download and it is keeping saying that the "codec" is missing. Can you fix that?

Thanks for the great programm.

always give the video url so others can see if they get the same error and if it's not something to do with your pc so give the url of the episode

Sorry, I don 't post a lot here. This is the URL https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/thuis/23/thuis-s23a4301/

yeah i understand the problem is not tvdownloader it's on vrt's side the video is not available on there you need to wait till they fix it but i doubt it since it's a video from 27th july the best thing to do is to send them a email on there socials and tell them that this video is not working goodluck

[L1008]

Hi, I was downloading Thuis from VRTnu. Some of the downloads were going great until monday. The next day I got my download and it is keeping saying that the "codec" is missing. Can you fix that?

Thanks for the great programm.

always give the video url so others can see if they get the same error and if it's not something to do with your pc so give the url of the episode

Sorry, I don 't post a lot here. This is the URL https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/thuis/23/thuis-s23a4301/

yeah i understand the problem is not tvdownloader it's on vrt's side the video is not available on there you need to wait till they fix it but i doubt it since it's a video from 27th july the best thing to do is to send them a email on there socials and tell them that this video is not working goodluck

Yeah, This video was online until yesterday. But the others are having the same problem too. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/thuis/23/thuis-s23a4307/
Like this one, https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/thuis/25/thuis-s25a4834/. I downloaded it in the weekend, it worked fine with audio and video. But if I download it again today I only have the sound. You have the same problem?

[killer30]

hello guys pls help dowloand this video https://www.ctv.ca/shows/love-island/episode-8-s2e8