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Can someone show me how to download these Limelight audio files?

February 14, 2018, 3:31 pm
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HTML - Cached Video Playback Stutter

February 15, 2018, 3:30 am
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Hi All,

I produce content for digital signage screens. Using HTML the screen's web browser caches a 5-15 video at the start of the day, so that it is available for playback throughout the day. This is working, however I still get a judder or two during the first couple of seconds of playback. I'm guessing that this is a browser issue. Perhaps some combination of the time it takes to add a video tag to the DOM and / or RAM issue, effectively the rendering of the video to screen is subject to some kind of a bottle-neck. Does anyone have any experience / strategies / suggestions on how I might be able to improve playback? I can't change anything about the target machine / browser / screen. I can only change the HTML and the video. Here are the video compression specs:

*** General Parameters ***
- Name: CampaignVideo.mp4
- Container: MP4 - QuickTime
- Size: 2.99 MB
- Duration: 10s 0ms
- Bitrate: 2 390 Kbps

*** Video Track Parameters ***
- Format: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
- Bitrate: Max.: --- / Average: 2 058 Kbps / Min.: ---
- Frame rate (fps): Max.: --- / Average: 25.000 / Min.: ---
- Encoding profile: Main@L4.1
- Image size: 1080*1920
- Pixel Aspect Ratio: Undefined
- Display Aspect Ratio: 0.562
- Interlacing: Progressive

and the HTML tag in question from my JS:
videoLoader.innerHTML += "<video id='video' autoplay><source id='mp4' type='video/mp4'/></video>";

Thanks in advance.
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What do you think about the result of my AviSynth script

February 15, 2018, 5:51 am
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Ideal Capture rate vs DVD rate bitrates and fps

February 15, 2018, 6:28 am
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Ok, sorry if this is a rehash but if I'm capturing shows from a source (satellite receiver) and I want to make the output similar to what I would see if I had the show on a DVD, here's what I've calculated.

Let's take a movie on a DVD (dual layer NON blue-ray) for example. That's roughly 2 hours or so for 7-8 Gb of data. So that works out to roughly 7.7 to 8.8 Mb/s. Capturing at that rate should make my output similar to a DVD.

Most movies are done at 30fps. It's kind of funny how satellite transmissions send a signal out at 60fps. If it's only 30fps to begin with isn't upscaling it to 60fps overkill?
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Problems in the encode of a Blu-ray anime

February 15, 2018, 7:42 am
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Hey, guys.

I'm facing a little problem in the encode of my anime. My source is a Blu-ray disk.

Media-info:
Code:
General
ID                            : 0 (0x0)
Complete name                  : R:\Encode\HC Encode\00008.m2ts
Format                        : BDAV
Format/Info                    : Blu-ray Video
File size                      : 22.0 GiB
Duration                      : 1 h 12 min
Overall bit rate mode          : Variable
Overall bit rate              : 43.3 Mb/s
Maximum Overall bit rate      : 48.0 Mb/s

Video
ID                            : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                        : 1 (0x1)
Format                        : AVC
Format/Info                    : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                : High@L4.1
Format settings                : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC        : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames      : 4 frames
Codec ID                      : 27
Duration                      : 1 h 12 min
Bit rate mode                  : Variable
Bit rate                      : 40.0 Mb/s
Width                          : 1 920 pixels
Height                        : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio          : 16:9
Frame rate                    : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space                    : YUV
Chroma subsampling            : 4:2:0
Bit depth                      : 8 bits
Scan type                      : MBAFF
Scan type, store method        : Interleaved fields
Scan order                    : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)            : 0.643
Stream size                    : 20.3 GiB (92%)
Color range                    : Limited
Color primaries                : BT.709
Transfer characteristics      : BT.709
Matrix coefficients            : BT.709

Audio
ID                            : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                        : 1 (0x1)
Format                        : PCM
Format settings                : Big / Signed
Muxing mode                    : Blu-ray
Codec ID                      : 128
Duration                      : 1 h 12 min
Bit rate mode                  : Constant
Bit rate                      : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s)                    : 2 channels
Channel positions              : Front: L R
Sampling rate                  : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth                      : 16 bits
Stream size                    : 797 MiB (4%)
I'm using the MeGUI, and I realized that the video gets weird in the preview and the encode finished.

My script:
Code:
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\lsmash\LSMASHSource.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\masktools2.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\dither.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\avstp.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\Decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\TIVTC.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\nnedi3.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\eedi3.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\RgTools.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\masktools2.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\yadifmod2.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\TDeint.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\GRunT.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\TMM2.dll")
LoadPlugin("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\EEDI2.dll")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\FMDF.avsi")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\dither.avsi")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\Srestore.avsi")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\AnimeIVTC.avsi")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\sanimebob.avsi")
import("R:\Encode\MeGUI\tools\avs\plugins\SMDegrain v.3.1.2d.avsi")



LWLibavVideoSource("00008.m2ts")
spline36resize(1280,720)
TDecimate(mode=1)

__film = last
__t0 = __film.trim(0, 34792)
__t0
And this is the result in some parts of the video:






Any tips on how I can fix this? Thanks.
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Cloudcamera application question

February 15, 2018, 12:53 pm
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Hello, not knowing where to post this.

I have cloud camera which can be connected through an application i got with the camera ( sitecom homecam twist). Unfortunately the app supplier of this cam has closed shop. And sitecom basicly said return the cam for a refund. This tells me that its a branded oem cam and an oem app. Since the cam itself is very decent i am wondering if there is a universal Android based app for these kind of cams. Like the good old twain driver for scanners back in the day.

And talking about the old days, this forum has been around when i still had hair, and trust me that has been a while. Good to see its still around.
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Video Output Settings Problem - VSDC/PowerDirector

February 15, 2018, 1:00 pm
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I'm creating MP4 videos that are made from OBS screen recordings of PowerPoint Presentations that have been trimmed and combined with a separate voice-over file. This process is somewhat convoluted, but it is exactly what I need to be doing for various reasons, so solutions that attempt to bypass this process are not what I'm looking for.

Originally I was importing the screen recordings and audio files into VSDC video editor (free) with settings that are displayed on the attached image. This output small size, high quality files, however, I have since run into way too many problems with VDSC including not being able to view files at all to failing every time I try to output new ones. So I purchased PowerDirector16 (I put PD15 in the image, but it's 16, I just checked, sorry) and put the same files/simple trim edits into it, then used what I thought were comparable output settings (noting that I am a complete amateur with video editing and have no idea what most of them mean). Unlike VDSC, I'm not running into any bugs, but the output is either a huge file or terrible quality.

If PowerDirector Kbps bitrate is set to the allowable MP4 range of 3000+, the file looks okay, but it's huge (over 4 gigs for a 50 min file for midrange Kbps settings). In VSDC I had around a 600Kbps rate and ended up with great looking files that were over an hour long, so I set the PowerDirector output to comparably low bitrates by editing the custom profile.ini file directly. However, when I set a 700 Kbps rate I still ended up with a much larger file that looked like blocky crap (see attached image). All of this leads me to believe that there is some other setting in the PowerDirector output choices that will help me make the simple PowerPoint animation with static background look good with a low file size.

Can someone who is knowledgeable about output settings and the type of video I am trying to output help me figure out a way to adjust the PowerDirector output settings to produce a comparable file to the VSDC files I used to make (but can no longer get to work due to VSDC bugs? It would be annoying if I paid for PowerDirector and had to get something else because of output option limitations, so ideally I can use PowerDirector options for this fix.

Please view the attached image for the output settings in each case. Thanks in advance for reviewing this post.

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How can I copy files from flash drive to Android TV?

February 15, 2018, 1:35 pm
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My Dad has a 4K TV from Sony that uses the Android operating system. I sometimes get pictures or videos from the internet on my computer to show him. Now he's asking me if there's a way to copy those items from my flash drive to his TV so he can keep some of them. I noticed under "Storage and Reset" that the TV has a capacity of over 8GB of storage space. However, I can't find a way to copy any of my drive's content over into the storage area of the TV.

I've done Google searches for this problem and have seen advice about apps that can be used. However, my Dad doesn't have internet at his house, so the TV is not connected to it. It's just "stand-alone". So that seems to rule out downloading an external app. to it. Also, I've tried connecting my smartphone to the TV without success, so it doesn't look like I can do anything with that either. Isn't there a setting on the TV that allows files to be copied from an external device over to the TV?
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Freemake Video Downloader. Any restrictions?

February 16, 2018, 4:47 am
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I mentioned in a previous thread that when I try downloading from youtube using Freemake Downloader, a youtube message pops up saying I must log on in order to make the download work. I log on but the message just keeps buffering and I get nowhere fast! I have to give up.
It has been said that all of this can be overcome by simply installing the latest Freemake Video Downloader software; can somebody confirm for me that this is correct, please?
My worry is Freemake start making restrictions on their softwares after a time, like they did with their Video Converter: Unless you purchase a gold pack key you get logos at the start and end of all conversions. The key removes them. I am hoping that Freemake has not done anything similar with the Freemake Downloader(?) If they have not, I will feel better about trying for the update version.

I am not able to contact Freemake support any more and possible never will be able to! Without any warning, they Suspended my account. I do not know why or when the suspension will ever be lifted. It has been over a year now! So beware, folks! Freemake can turn nasty with their customers anytime without warning!
Regards
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Vlc 3.0.0 don't record

February 16, 2018, 5:11 am
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I just updated VLC to last version 3.0.0
I press the record button while a mp4 file is playing.
The record button turns blue and seems working.
When I press it again I cannot find any saved file
not in the folder I set in preferences not any where in my pc.
I was able to record using previous VLC version.

So how could I save what I am recording?

Using windows 10 64 bit version Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.248]
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Muxing h.265/HEVC Annex B raw to MP4 using MP4Box

February 16, 2018, 5:14 am
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Hey there,
I am producing a raw10bit h265 Annex B file by using ffmpeg and x265. The source is a 8bit 1080p BluRay. Muxing the h265 to a MKV container using MKVMerge, everything is fine and VLC player starts playing, also allows browsing the video by clicking the progress bar. Muxing the h265 to a MP4 file using MP4Box also allows VLC to play the video, but clicking the progress bar freezes the VLC player immediately, allowing to cancel it only by task manager. I am using the latest versions of all tools. Muxing to MKV and MP4 here looks like this:
Code:
mkvmerge.exe -o mycontainer.mkv myvideo.h265
Code:
MP4Box.exe -add myvideo.h265:fmt=HEVC -new mycontainer.mp4
I had found the expression ".h265:fmt=HEVC" in some other forum and it enables muxing HEVC. Not using it will result in an error by MP4Box, muxing nothing. Strangely, HEVC is not listened at the official manpage of MP4Box (maybe the manual is outdated?): https://www.mankier.com/1/mp4box#Supported_Input_Formats
The video file in the resulting MP4 container gives the following info:

Quote:
General
Complete name : E:\mycontainer.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : iso4 (iso4/hvc1/iso6)
File size : 554 MiB
Duration : 43 min 0 s
Overall bit rate : 1 802 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2018-02-16 13:03:08
Tagged date : UTC 2018-02-16 13:03:08

Video
ID : 1
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L4@Main
Codec ID : hvc1
Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Duration : 43 min 0 s
Bit rate : 1 800 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 7 777 kb/s
Width : 1 916 pixels
Height : 1 076 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.036
Stream size : 554 MiB (100%)
Writing library : x265 2.6+37-1949157705ce:[Windows][GCC 7.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
Encoding settings : cpuid=1173503 / frame-threads=3 / numa-pools=12 / wpp / no-pmode / no-pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1916x1076 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=4 / no-allow-non-conformance / repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=23 / keyint=250 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=4 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=25 / lookahead-slices=4 / scenecut=40 / radl=0 / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / rect / no-amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=1 / tu-intra-depth=1 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=3 / limit-refs=3 / limit-modes / me=3 / subme=3 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / weightp / no-weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / no-sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / no-b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=crf / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=0 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=1 / aq-strength=1.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=2 / transfer=2 / colormatrix=2 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / max-cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr / no-hdr-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / analysis-reuse-level=5 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-mv-type=0 / copy-pic=1
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2018-02-16 13:03:08
Tagged date : UTC 2018-02-16 13:03:15
For further testing, I had the MKV checked by eac3to using "eac3to.exe -check mycontainer.mkv" and everything is fine. If the HEVC inside the MKV would be invalid, eac3to usually notices. Same as with "eac3to.exe mycontainer.mkv -demux": The h265 is extracted flawlessly. So I think there must be something wrong with the way I mux into MP4. Could anyone tell me how to make it work with MP4 and MP4Box? Thanks in advance!
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Trouble converting/joining mp4 files

February 16, 2018, 8:03 am
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Good morning. I am trying to join 2 mp4s. Video 1 is a 10 second video created with ffmpeg from a single image and has a silent audio created with anullsrc. Video 2 is, unfortunately, vfr and since ffmpeg does not like to create vfr files, at least to match the format of another. I tried to convert video 2 to cfr but audio sync errors occur.

Does anyone know the best way to join these 2 together. If they both must be reencoded then how can i do this and keep audio in sync. I would like to use ffmpeg and/or avisynth since they are cli.

Thank you
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Software for burning

February 16, 2018, 10:19 am
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Hi guys I dont know where exactly post it, I just want to know what program do you recommend and use for burning disc? Bluray movies, CD audio, Data disc, DVD movies etc?

Thank you in advance!!
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Help downloading AES-encrypted HLS video stream

February 16, 2018, 11:27 am
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I'm trying to download some videos from Cartoon Network, but I'm not having much luck with it, and figured I'd ask around here to see if anyone could offer some advice.

One of the videos in question: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/ninjago/the-hands-of-time-episode.html

I've already got Video DownloadHelper (which does have a Chrome extension - I don't know why it's marked as Firefox only) and Adobe HDS / HLS Video Saver added to Chrome, and they've given me a lot of help for locating the M3U8s I need. I want to download it in 720p quality or higher, so I'm only showing the relevant links that the extensions gave me.

Video DownloadHelper gave me two URLs: the "raw" M3U8 (labeled layer6), and another one (also called layer6) which includes what I assume is access information or something similar.

HLS Video Saver gave me three potential links: the "accessorized" link that Video DownloadHelper had, a second potentially higher quality link (due to it being called layer8 instead of layer6 - Cartoon Network has the videos listed as layer1, layer2, etc. in ascending order from 240p, 360p, etc.), and a third "master" link (which presumably manages all of the video sizes - i.e. allowing the stream to switch between qualities depending on the connection).

Neither Video DownloadHelper nor HLS Video Saver can download them - Video DownloadHelper marks them as HLS streams (which it can't download), and HLS Video Saver (which I've used to download HLS streams from other sites before - I've found that it's easy to use works very well, and I'm somewhat surprised it's not listed in the tools section) comes up with zero parts to download when it tries to start. I've had the same luck (read: zero) with other programs, including m3u8x, Internet Download Manager, etc. to no avail. And before you ask, yes, I've done FFMPEG as well (that was my first approach), but it still can't download AES encrypted streams. :( However, it was still helpful - it revealed that the encryption method is SAMPLE-AES rather than AES-128.

If anybody has some suggestions for how to get this, I'd appreciate it - I've searched all over the forum but I haven't found anything that's helped. :/
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Playing vector based SWF files

February 16, 2018, 1:04 pm
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I have 20 SWF files containing vector based animations, grabbed from a site three years ago. I had kept a very small shockwave player in the same folder and it played them, but then deleted the folder, and only managed to re-download the SWF files subsequently. Now I cannot find a program that plays them or able to convert them to a more widely used format ( avi, mp4 etc ). They won't play in the Adobe Flash Player, Gom, VLC, nor any of the alternative programs I've downloaded, and I've tried a few free online conversions as well - none convert or play. They see the SWF files, but cannot process them. I presume it's because because they are vector based. Can anyone suggest a small player, hopefully portable so I don't have to install it ? I would have attached one of the SWF files to this post, but even this system doesn't recognise them !

Thanks
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MKV slider not responsive

February 16, 2018, 1:44 pm
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Whenever I try to slide to a scene it skips way ahead as if there were chapters but there aren't any according to MKVExtractGUI2.
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An attempt to obtain video and audio files from tape backup

February 16, 2018, 6:25 pm
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I have some backup tapes which should contain WAV audio and MJPEG video that was created on the Panasonic Postbox nonlinear editing suite back in the late '90s. I'm curious to see whether it's possible to extract the original files and play them back for historical/archive purposes.

Using an OpenSUSE Linux system and dd I was able to read back files from the tape. But when I look at the files, I don't see any expected header data, although there's definitely a regular pattern to the start of the files. If I try opening them in VLC it seems to think they're media files but it doesn't play anything back.

It's possible the files are compressed or encoded in some fashion, or I used incorrect settings when I read the files in.

I've attached a dump of the first 30 files on the tape in the hopes that someone may recognize the patterns or have other ideas about what steps I could try.

Thanks!
Attached Files
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Can TV3/3Player streams no longer be downloaded now that it uses MMS?

February 16, 2018, 6:40 pm
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I've been having trouble finding a way to download an episode from 3Player and judging from this thread posted last August the issue is that chunks are now protected by some form of DRM. Is there a way to download 3Player streams or am I out of luck? Thanks!

Edit: I just realised I stuffed up the title. "MMS" was supposed to be "DRM". I'm blaming Video Cache View for that one. ;)

Edit 2: After digging around the forum some more, I downloaded TubeDigger to retrieve the HLS URL, which works just fine with Livestreamer.
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Avidemux 2.7 64 bits - Frame Rate Options MOVED? MISSING?

February 16, 2018, 10:04 pm
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I've just installed the latest version of Avidemux

The frame rate seems to be set at 15fps and all encodes come out at 15fps.
I can't find the Frame Rate controls which were previously in the video menu.

How are the Frame rates adjusted in this version?
Apologies, if I'm missing something very obvious.
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Can TV3/3Player streams no longer be downloaded now that it uses DRM?

February 16, 2018, 6:40 pm
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I've been having trouble finding a way to download an episode from 3Player and judging from this thread posted last August the issue is that chunks are now protected by some form of DRM. Is there a way to download 3Player streams or am I out of luck? Thanks!

Edit: After digging around the forum some more, I downloaded TubeDigger to retrieve the HLS URL, which works just fine with Livestreamer.
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