Help with HBO Now video?

[ckr-mief]

Oh wells.
Thank you peterpan and bulls95 for trying to help

[joejones15]

wow, they actually have a 1080p stream at 4500kbps!!!

thanks for the info guys

[Moet]

Atresdownloader might work here.

It claimed to have downloaded 100 percent of the mp4 from this hbonow stream http://hlsvod-l3c.med3.hbonow.com/hl...primetime.m3u8 - unfortunately it never manages to create the file. However that might be because I'm trying with an expired link.

[ckr-mief]

Originally Posted by Moet

Atresdownloader might work here.

It claimed to have downloaded 100 percent of the mp4 from this hbonow stream http://hlsvod-l3c.med3.hbonow.com/hl...primetime.m3u8 - unfortunately it never manages to create the file. However that might be because I'm trying with an expired link.

Do you want to try it out with the log in details? I don't know if that would help.

[Moet]

I'm happy to try but you can get Atresdownloader from here:

http://www.videohelp.com/download/a3toMP4v17.3F.exe

If you can find the m3u8 link for your video you can paste it in to Atresdownloader's url bar, hit the magnyfying glass search icon and it should come up with what it thinks is a number of valid .mp4 links in different qualities.

[bulls95]

Originally Posted by Moet

I'm happy to try but you can get Atresdownloader from here:

http://www.videohelp.com/download/a3toMP4v17.3F.exe

If you can find the m3u8 link for your video you can paste it in to Atresdownloader's url bar, hit the magnyfying glass search icon and it should come up with what it thinks is a number of valid .mp4 links in different qualities.

When I paste the m3u8 URL and hit the magnifying glass, it looks like it starts downloading a number of packages. I ignored the warning



and clicked the only available _m3u8 button (I used the m3u8 for a specific bitrate instead of the main m3u8). I could see the fragments downloading in the temp folder



but crypt-1.key file in the temp folder showed

****.hbonow.com - 404 Not Found

When it reached 100% all of the working items were deleted and there was no output video to be found. I tried again with a different source I've had troubles downloading from and the final result was the same. It downloaded to 100%, said it was muxing m3u8, then all working files were deleted and no output file remained.

I downloading the P version it prompts you to download, ignoring the warning messages on launch




and tried again But there is no change. It downloads the fragments and deletes them when it thinks it pieced them back together.

[Moet]

Damn. I'm sorry to have wasted your time and raised your hopes. Not sure if the .php/Adobe HDS errors have anything to do with it though.

You've probably tried other tools too but I'm still willing to try with the set of common tools that I have.

[bulls95]

Originally Posted by Moet

Damn. I'm sorry to have wasted your time and raised your hopes. Not sure if the .php/Adobe HDS errors have anything to do with it though.

You've probably tried other tools too but I'm still willing to try with the set of common tools that I have.

I didn't have much hope that it would work, as I had the same result with other tools. GetFLV does the same thing, except freezes at 99.9% leaving the fragments intact. I don't think the php/hds warnings have any significance because they only popped up on the newer P release.

[Moet]

The only other thing I would try then is Internet Download Manager. Good luck.

[bulls95]

Results from other tools:

>livestreamer "hls://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8" best -o hls.ts
[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hls://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8
[cli][info] Available streams: live (worst, best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: live (hls)
[stream.hls][error] Failed to create decryptor: ('Unable to decrypt cipher {0}', u'SAMPLE-AES')
[cli][error] No data returned from stream

>livestreamer "hlsvariant://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8" best -o hlsvariant.ts
[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hlsvariant://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8
error: No streams found on this URL: hlsvariant://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8

>livestreamer "hds://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8" best -o hds.ts
[cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hds://http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8
error: Unable to parse manifest XML: syntax error: line 1, column 0 ('#EXTM3U\n#EXT-X-VERSION:5\n#EXT-X- ...)

>ffmpeg -i "http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800K/3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8" -c copy ffmpeg.ts
ffmpeg version N-75316-gcbbd906 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
[hls,applehttp @ 02d3cf00] SAMPLE-AES encryption is not supported yet
[hls,applehttp @ 02d3cf00] Failed to open segment of playlist 0
...
[hls,applehttp @ 02d3cf00] SAMPLE-AES encryption is not supported yet
[hls,applehttp @ 02d3cf00] Failed to open segment of playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 02d3cf00] Error when loading first segment 'http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800K/00/00/00.ts'
http://...hbonow.com/hls/.../3800_complete_media_primetime.m3u8: Invalid data found when processing input