UK Free to Air Downloader

[peterb999]

Channel 5 seems to have changed something about the mpd; the downloader no-longer functions. While waiting for a solution AllHell3Gui works, with a little more effort.

I've found that if you copy ffmpeg, mp4decrypt, N_m3u8DL-RE, and shaka-packager into the my5_dl folder and then run my5_loader.py directly from inside that folder it will work.

I've tested on "The Teacher" and it is downloading no problem.

But I cannot get it to work via the main menu.py, whenever I choose My5 I get the error "Extra data: line 1 column 4 (char 3)"

Edit to add - on line 39 of menu.py change UPDATE = True to UPDATE = False and it will work just fine

Hi Wilkies,

It has never stopped working for me - maybe they changed the MPD and then changed it back? I didn't have to copy anything into the My5 folder.

I miss Angela, I really hope she just needs a break and will come back. I've been looking at her last few posts and can see that she called out MrSalah for stealing her code which he admitted but didn't apologise or give her any credit. I don't know why you would do that, these scripts took her so much work and it was very generous for her to share them. Hopefully she'll be back.

[Wilkies]

Channel 5 seems to have changed something about the mpd; the downloader no-longer functions. While waiting for a solution AllHell3Gui works, with a little more effort.

I've found that if you copy ffmpeg, mp4decrypt, N_m3u8DL-RE, and shaka-packager into the my5_dl folder and then run my5_loader.py directly from inside that folder it will work.

I've tested on "The Teacher" and it is downloading no problem.

But I cannot get it to work via the main menu.py, whenever I choose My5 I get the error "Extra data: line 1 column 4 (char 3)"

Edit to add - on line 39 of menu.py change UPDATE = True to UPDATE = False and it will work just fine

Hi Wilkies,

It has never stopped working for me - maybe they changed the MPD and then changed it back? I didn't have to copy anything into the My5 folder.

I miss Angela, I really hope she just needs a break and will come back. I've been looking at her last few posts and can see that she called out MrSalah for stealing her code which he admitted but didn't apologise or give her any credit. I don't know why you would do that, these scripts took her so much work and it was very generous for her to share them. Hopefully she'll be back.

Hi Peterb999,

I was getting the error "Extra data: line 1 column 4 (char 3)" whenever I tried to use My5 in the latest version (I had seen that at least one other person had as well, on this forum). It has something to do with the simulate_browser.js file

I tried running with putting all the files into the My5 folder and running the my5_loader.py file directly and it worked fine. I have since discovered that you don't need to do that, but it you get the above error all you need to do is open menu.py in a text editor and change line 39 to UPDATE = False. But you will have to revert to manually updating the hmac and aes keys. A_n_g_e_l_a did say that My5 was broken, but other than getting that error there's nothing wrong with it.

I agree with what you're saying, she's been an absolute gem in creating this code. And if anyone uses her code without giving credit, or better still asking permission to re-use it, then they don't deserve it and should bugger off. Hopefully she will be back soon

[billybanana]

stabby did mention he'd made some changes to My5 and that his automated solution for the HMAC and AES keys would no longer work.https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/414154-Devine-Modular-Movie-TV-and-Music-Archival-...27#post2751103

If angela does return at some point (and I hope she does) then using and Android endpoint alleviates the need for HMAC/AES. Of course up to her if she chooses to do that or not.

[Akirainblack]

I'm really sorry to see that idiots have caused @A_n_g_e_l_a to take a break. I do understand it though, I've been put in a similar position where people stole my code and claimed it as their own (he even then had the gall to ask me to help him fix "his code"). IMHO anyone who steals another's code should be banned from that and any affiliated site.

[peterb999]

I'm really sorry to see that idiots have caused @A_n_g_e_l_a to take a break. I do understand it though, I've been put in a similar position where people stole my code and claimed it as their own (he even then had the gall to ask me to help him fix "his code"). IMHO anyone who steals another's code should be banned from that and any affiliated site.

I totally agree. I really hope she does come back but if she doesn't then I'll still be very grateful for what she's written. Angela and Stabbedbybrick are real credits to the forum. I've worked in IT for a long time and use people like Angela as an example how age is no barrier at all for IT. I help a lot of elderly people get on the internet for the first time and help them get used to it and I always mention Angela which does help people feel more confident (that and a woman I met on a NT4 course who I thought was the cleaner but she was the lecturer and seemed to know something about everthing).

I have "stolen" code all the time, but when I say stolen I literally mean that I've looked at the scripts to see how certain things are done and put them into scripts that I just use for myself. If I was going to release anything then I would write to the author first and ask if they are ok about it, I certainly wouldn't try and pretend it was my own. I don't really understand why you would especially in Python when you can easily see if stuff has been copied (and at the very least you would put statements in the code to say where you got it from). People are very strange sometimes.