Wrong quality downloaded at TuckerCarlson.com (TCN)

[bshafer]

Your question

When downloading some (but not all) videos from tuckercarlson.com, selecting the 1080p option actually downloads a 360p video. However, selecting the 720p option actually downloads an mp4 file with two video streams: 1080p(!) and 360p. It doesn't seem to matter whether I use the coapp or not.

Two examples:
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-bob-amsterdam
https://tuckercarlson.com/all-the-presidents-men-episode-1

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.3.0.1
target: mozilla
channel: stable
lang: en-US
coapp: {"found":true,"path":"C:\Program Files\DownloadHelper CoApp\vdhcoapp.exe","version":"2.0.19","new_version":false}
license: {"accepted":true,"email":"","key":"697a62a9ec36409d"}
platform: x86-64 win
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
{
"valid_license_message_has_been_displayed": true,
"http_media_download_strategy": "coapp",
"used_history_button": true,
"download_directory": "E:\NoBackup\VideoDownloadHelper",
"last_download_directory": {
"__serializer_tag": "option_some",
"__serializer_value": {
"__serializer_tag": "primitive",
"__serializer_value": "E:\NoBackup\YouTube\Downloaded\Tucker Carlson"
}
},
"show_success_notification": false,
"never_show_no_incognito_msg_again": true,
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": true,
"low_quality": true,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": true,
"show_button_convert_local": true,
"hide_downloaded": false
},
"show_context_menu": false,
"forget_media_on_tab_close": false,
"use_wide_ui": true,
"open_count_store": 3,
"successfull_dl": 79
}

[Mattmjs]

The software is getting all the streams wrong, Compare the details to what ffprobe shows. The software assumes the audio
to be stream 0 but is 240p.

What VDH downloads
1080p ---> 240p with audio
720p ---> 1080p+240p
480p ---> 720p+240p
360p ---> 480p+240p

Tab 14 (incognito: false)
Title Bob Amsterdam: How USAID Is Helping Zelensky Destroy Christianity With Fake Churches and Violence
Page URL https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-bob-amsterdam with 11 headers
Thumbnail https://assets.tuckercarlson.com/5m6n3vsrm1dx67hm5lxtk.jpg
Low Quality false
#0 main url https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/068262f01ef0ac93e3dd4ca41a62995c/manifest/video.mpd?parentOrigin=https%3A%2F%2Ftuckercarlson.com
#0 video component 2
#0 audio component 0
#0 core media Mp4 b:MPD p:dash 1046.1s
#0 audio AAC at 130830
#0 video H264 at 676129, fps: ?, q:360, {"width":640,"height":360}
#1 main url https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/068262f01ef0ac93e3dd4ca41a62995c/manifest/video.mpd?parentOrigin=https%3A%2F%2Ftuckercarlson.com
#1 video component 5
#1 audio component 0
#1 core media Mp4 b:MPD p:dash 1046.1s
#1 audio AAC at 130830
#1 video H264 at 4430267, fps: ?, q:1080, {"width":1920,"height":1080}
#2 main url https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/068262f01ef0ac93e3dd4ca41a62995c/manifest/video.mpd?parentOrigin=https%3A%2F%2Ftuckercarlson.com
#2 video component 4
#2 audio component 0
#2 core media Mp4 b:MPD p:dash 1046.1s
#2 audio AAC at 130830
#2 video H264 at 2159920, fps: ?, q:720, {"width":1280,"height":720}
#3 main url https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/068262f01ef0ac93e3dd4ca41a62995c/manifest/video.mpd?parentOrigin=https%3A%2F%2Ftuckercarlson.com
#3 video component 3
#3 audio component 0
#3 core media Mp4 b:MPD p:dash 1046.1s
#3 audio AAC at 130830
#3 video H264 at 1063598, fps: ?, q:480, {"width":852,"height":480}

From ffprobe

Input #0, dash, from 'https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/068262f01ef0ac93e3dd4ca41a62995c/manifest/video.mpd':
Duration: 01:17:26.00, start: -0.042667, bitrate: N/A
Program 0
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 426x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 71:40], 149 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 476077
id : 965165767
Stream #0:1: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 640x360 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 212 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 676129
id : 965166460
Stream #0:2: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 852x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 71:40], 354 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 1063598
id : 965166582
Stream #0:3: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 806 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 2159920
id : 965168942
Stream #0:4: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2279 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 4430267
id : 965174679
Stream #0:5(original): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 130830
id : 965164774
Stream #0:6(English): Subtitle: webvtt
Metadata:
id : 965195141

[Mattmjs]

There is an alternative solution that works, see #1628