Unable to find a downloadable video with ZDF (German television) #1362
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I do not work for VDH. I'm just another user. I'm running Windows 11 Pro 64-bit version 24H2 build 26100.2033, Firefox 131.0.3 64-bit, licensed VDH 9.1.0.41 beta, CoApp 2.0.20. There's some bits of information there that you omitted. You really ought to include those when you post here. But at least you provided a URL, which is usually the main piece of useful information. I looked for captions for this, hoping there might be English subtitles on offer. But I didn't find any. I think there are German captions but I couldn't find even those. I must say I'm somewhat surprised I wasn't geoblocked on this one. So much content in the EU is geoblocked for me over here in the US. In any case, this one seemed to pose no problem whatsoever for VDH. That's not to say that everything will work. This particular show was not protected by DRM. There seems to be an epidemic of DRM sweeping the world. Perhaps content you are having trouble with is protected by DRM. Firefox puts up a little DRM badge in the same line with the URL at the top of the window, to the left of the URL. Hover your mouse over those badges. If one of them mentions DRM, that particular content is protected. If you see that, forget about downloading. |
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Thanks! This is weird, as it now works for me, too! I had tied multiple times without success, this particular show didn't show up when running, while it worked for other videos which I tried to validate my installation in itself wasn't screwed up in the first place. For now my apologies causing you extra effort :-( |
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Reconsidering, if seems the channel managed to somehow block a download of the episode while still broadcasted live although showing up in their library for streaming already. Only after its live broadcasting ended the episode could be downloaded, too. At least this appears to be the most likely reason why it didn't work before and does now without any other change or browser restart. |
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ZDF changed their website which makes it difficult to download movies in .mp4 format (I don't like .webm). I figured out how to download movies from the ZDF website.
![]() If the movie is offered in mutiple languages the audio track will be German if the URL always ends with .m3u8, which is how it should be. Would be nice if Paul could update Video DownloadHelper to download movies on ZDF without using yt-dlp. Thanks! |
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If you can't read my post properly, then you shouldn't reply to it. Also, my post is addressed to Paul. |
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I don't know whether the ZDF (German public television) changed any of its broadcasting, or whether the download helper (beta) changed, but some videos are no longer recognized, e.g.
https://www.zdf.de/serien/die-rosenheim-cops/stockls-verdacht-100.html
I've had similar problems with the ARD (another German public television channel) but there switching to "auto" quality and back to a particular one like 1080p "fixed" the detection problem.
With the ZDF some movies still work, while series (like the one linked) are not recognized anymore, suggesting that it might be related to the ZDF changing its display mode ...
Addon & CoApp version and details
using 9.1.0.41 and 2.0.19
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