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[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:

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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