Videos not detected on https://aki-h.com/

[genaro4]

Your question

Hello to all .

I been trying to download videos from this page https://aki-h.com/ . But VDH doesn't detect the video stream adress.

I been trying also Jdownloader and other stream downloaders but nothing seems work on that page. https://aki-h.com/

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.5.0.1
target: google
channel: stable
lang: en-US
coapp: {"found":true,"new_version":false,"path":"C:\Program Files\DownloadHelper CoApp\vdhcoapp.exe","version":"2.0.19"}

platform: x86-64 win
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[GrampaWildWilly]

I do not work for VDH. I am just another user. Also, please read #2214.

I quote you:

nothing seems work on this page

What page? Post the URL of the page. Actually type https://whatever into the text of a post. That will give us a link we can click & then we can investigate your problem.

[Mattmjs]

I looked at something random from there and I can see why there isn't detection. The site flies under the radar by not using .m3u8
for the stream manifests. If that .m3u8 extension could be added then there would be detection and it would work in VDH.
But this site won't allow that, so I see that it will never work in VDH. There is another way that involves creating a cURL script.

Since I'm not a coder I used AI to do that. Add the stream manifest to the script, save it and then execute it.
It downloads all the segments and merges into a single file. You need the link from the site copied from developer tools.
See the image below

The link highlighted up the top is the master manifest, the link highlighted below is the 720p stream playlist.
This is the link needed for the script. If your not a coder like me, use an AI.

[GrampaWildWilly]

Taking my cue from Matt, I picked something at random on the site as well:

https://aki-h.com/videos/eW8645N6Gk/

When I first visited that page, I hit the Play button in the player embedded on the web page. That did not cause the video to play. It seemed to cue up the video & another Play button was displayed. However, the Network Monitor was populated with useful stuff at that point so I never did actually launch playback of the video in the web page.

The Firefox Network Monitor did not show a proper HLS master manifest, as Matt pointed out. So I just trawled through the items listed until I found this one that did look like an HLS master manifest:

There is no magic to this. You just scroll through the items until you find one whose Response shows something that looks like an HLS master manifest. The problem is that this item does not have the right extension in its file name. That would be .m3u8. But that is actually not a showstopper. The showstopper is the Type of the item. This one is plain. That is bad. There are a few correct Types for an HLS master manifest. I don't remember them all off the top of my head, but I believe application/x-mpegurl is one of them. If the item doesn't have this proper type, VDH is not going to handle the content. So I agree with Matt on this point as well. The people running this site are making a concerted effort to be non-standard. Why? Is it to thwart downloaders? I can only speculate.

Now, I am using Firefox & you are using Chrome. I believe you can get essentially the same Network Monitor by hitting F12 in Chrome. This is the same key for Firefox. From there, it is my understanding that the content of the Network Monitor is pretty much the same in both Chrome & Firefox. You'll have to let us kn0w about that.

But here's where Matt & I take different paths. I've posted numerous examples in this forum of what I like to call Plan B. This is a perfect example of my Plan B.

In order to make the manifest look like a manifest, I copied the file to my system using the Save Response As selection on the context menu I popped up on this disguised manifest. I named the file without much imagination: Manifest.m3u8. When I ran that file through ffprobe, I got these results:

ffprobe.txt

Looks like there should be no problem downloading this with ffmpeg, and indeed there was not:

Hentai mp4 Log.txt

That's not a particularly fast download. Fortunately, it's not a very big file so it took a reasonable time to download. Longer than it should have for such a small file, but not a very long time in the absolute sense.

You can see the exact ffmpeg command I invoked to perform this download near the top of that log file.

I want to point out that the objects downloaded in this download were another bit of non-standard occurrences. Each chunk of this download was a .webp. That is the file type for an image. The usual chunk is .ts. Either the folks running this site are complete incompetents or they're trying to be very sly. Either way, it's not very hard to download their content anyway.

Back to the download. That got me a file with these properties:

Those video bit rates are pretty low for a 1920x1080 video. Then again, it's just a cartoon so the bit rates are adequate for the purpose. The audio information is pretty typical for mp4 content.

Not surprisingly, it played fine in VLC:

I had to be careful what to show here. The video is actually cartoon sex. That's what hentai is, as I understand it. You can see in that image that the video is fine. You can also see that there are English subtitles burned into the file. You'll have to take my word for it that the audio was also fine. It was in Japanese, so I didn't understand it. I didn't sit & watch this, just skimmed it to make sure it was all there & played fine with video & audio right to the end.

So you don't necessarily need to be a programmer, nor do you need to rely on an AI. You can perform a manual download of this using the same tool VDH uses . . . when it works. The ffmpeg I used here is the one from the CoApp directory. But this site seems to have intentionally not followed any standards, thus making it impossible for any reasonable application to automatically download this content. But if you can deal with Windows command line & .bat files, you can easily get any of the content off this site. I am assuming this example is representative of what you will find on the site.

[genaro4]

Thank you a lot, seems that I have to learn some things to follow your tips but it seems doable to download some videos.