Ceskatelevize.cz Longer videos problem (urgent)

Hi, I need to urgently download these .ts videos from:

[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]

because they are uploaded for limited time only.

FRD is failing to download them with ERROR: Failed to parse playlist.

There is one or possibly two short ad videos playing before the actual video which is about 2hrs long, so be adviced.

More people repeatedly asked for help with this and no one answered.
The ceskatelevize plugin is listed as Working! and it is working on shorter videos, like
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]

without the Failed to parse playlist error.

Please someone do something about the longer videos as well. I've downloaded these last year and year before without problem.

Big thanx!
ha_pi_pi

I already answered in another thread that these videos are protected with Widevine DRM which we can probably never support.

No about 'Widevine DRM' I am hearing the first time.. don't know, what that is.

Can you explain why the same show can be downloaded if it's shorter?
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]

So some videos can be downloaded, some videos can't.
[www.ceskatelevize.cz]

Is there really nothing that can be done?

Perhaps someone else reading this thread, besides FRD, is there any way to download?

Thanks..

I don't know why they use DRM for some videos and not others. They probably consider some videos more important to protect than others.

Client side DRM is a fundamentally flawed concept, so technically it would probably be possible to circumvent Widevine. However, it is specifically designed to make that very difficult. Many services like Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify all use Widevine. The stakes are so high that if it was easy, it would have been done already.

It was possibly cracked, but the people from the scene are hiding such tools because they probably use some implementation bug.
More info:
[torrentfreak.com]

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Okay, I'm of course not happy with the news
but thank you for your answers,
it's interesting to know.

Hi guys, I have also bad news, not only Star Dance is affected by the download problem...
Could you, please, look on the page [www.ceskatelevize.cz] if there is the same problem as like as Star Dance series?
Thanks in advance, yours MB

The log-file contains this:
Fri Nov 08 12:51:00 GMT+01:00 2019 SEVERE:
java.io.IOException: Failed to parse playlist
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.applehls.HlsPlaylist.(Unknown Source)
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.applehls.HlsDownloader.tryDownloadAndSaveFile(Unknown Source)
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.applehls.HlsDownloader.tryDownloadAndSaveFile(Unknown Source)
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.ceskatelevize.CeskaTelevizeFileRunner.run(Unknown Source)
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.webclient.AbstractFileShareService.run(AbstractFileShareService.java:106)
at cz.vity.freerapid.core.tasks.DownloadTask.doInBackground(DownloadTask.java:98)
at cz.vity.freerapid.core.tasks.DownloadTask.doInBackground(DownloadTask.java:42)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.applehls.Crypto.updateKeyString(Unknown Source)
at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.applehls.HlsPlaylist.getMediaList(Unknown Source)
... 13 more

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