How to get 1080p video from A&E Network sites

[jebele9937]

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew how to get the 1080p video from the A&E network websites?

For example, in this free video on History.com, I use yt-dlp and get the following:

yt-dlp -F https://play.history.com/shows/the-unxplained/season-3/episode-1

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As you can see, the highest available quality that yt-dlp detected is 720p

Next, I tried a video on AETv:

yt-dlp -F https://play.aetv.com/shows/hoarders/season-14/episode-1

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The highest quality is again also 720p

I also tried other A&E Network sites like Lifetime:

yt-dlp -F https://play.mylifetime.com/shows/dance-moms/season-9/episode-1

and fyi.tv:

yt-dlp -F https://play.fyi.tv/shows/rachael-rays-meals-in-minutes/season-1/episode-1

But they also result in the highest quality being 720p.

Does anyone know of a method (e.g. manipulating the m3u8/mpd content) to be able to download the 1080p version of these videos? I was curious since I have seen 1080p WEB-DLs of series from this network.

[z1269925944]

hulu with live tv subscription could give you 1080p dvr

[keep_it_breezy]

Sadly on A&E direct they don't give you 1080P versions of the stream - you can only grab them from other sites (Hulu, Philo etc)

[jebele9937]

I was able to find the show I wanted on Hulu, and it is indeed 1080p, thank you guys for letting me know

[portugese_fruit]

When you were grabbing the show from Hulu, were the shows behind a paywall? I noticed that the Dance Moms video was behind a paywall however the Hoarders, The unexplained, and Rachel Ray were not. Did you have trouble grabbing stuff from behind the paywall with yt-dlp?