I've solved my problem - all having to do with using expired authentication tokens. I kept re-grabbing the HDS Link Detector script to plug it into my batch file and at some point I "detected" that it hadn't changed from the last time I grabbed it, so I made the mistaken assumption that it just wasn't expiring that fast.
For several days it didn't occur to me that the HDS Link Detector might not be getting its last value flushed as long as the browser was open and/or the cache not cleared. It may be even simpler than this, but ever since I began clearing the browser's cache and closing it and then re-opening it to re-grab the manifest script from HDS Link Detector, the AdobeHDS.php method has been working flawlessly - even on the videos I was having the toughest time with.
I was/am using a batch file with just these lines in it:
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"" -quality 56 -outfile Audio.flv
pause
"" -quality 3450 -outfile Video.flv
pause
ffmpeg -i Audio.flv -i Video.flv -c copy FINAL.mp4
pause
The double quotes get replaced with the script that populates the clipboard when I click on the HDS Link Detector pop-up. The pauses are so I can monitor any feedback before continuing on to the next step. If something went wrong I can simply abort the batch file (Ctrl-C). I also noticed that the ffmpeg mux didn't work properly unless the pause was there and I waited a couple seconds to continue. BTW, the HDS Link Detector pop-up script includes the --delete switch and it seems to actually delete all the fragments when I run the full batch file but not when I run only one part of it (remark out the other operations).
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Originally Posted by ehurdler
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Now refresh the webpage, so to grab the ".ism/manifest...etc...etc." url again just as done for the audio portion above.
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This is where I think I was having my problem. I WAS refreshing the page on a consistent basis (many times, actually), but the script that HDS Link Detector was putting on my clipboard was NOT changing - which is probably why I was lulled into thinking the expired tokens were still current.
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...Now I use an app to change audio to aac format and the video to .mkv format. I use another app to mux the track together. I have gotten a flawless video everytime this way. Using FFMPEG I kept getting audio issues. I couldn't edit the resulting videos at all. This way I am able to edit out portions with no issue. Look great on USB plugged to Flatscreen, or streaming to/through AppleTV...
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I'm not getting audio issues with ffmpeg at all as long as I'm using AdobeHDS.php to merge the fragment files. I do note however, that sometimes the number of audio fragments has been one more than the number of video fragments, which may or may not be related to my finding that my audio sync was normally spot on with DownloadThemAll fragments when I forced "audio...Seg1-Frag[x]" to align with "video...Seg1-Frag[x+1]".
Anyway, all is good now with AdobeHDS.php doing the downloading and joining and ffmpeg doing the muxing and converting to MP4.
Thanks for everyone's contributions here.