Re: cbs not working

chancemimi — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:50:31 +0000

Thanks for the timely responding!
FRD is among the most user-friendly software alike !
Hoping these excellent plugins can be fixed as soon as possible, and millions of thanks to those devoted to the development of the wonderful app and plugins !

Re: cbs not working

TVjunkie — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:28:17 +0000

@chancemimi
@laurence37190

Unfortunately, the FRD dev (@tong2shot) responsible for the cbs.com plugin
hasn't made an appearance in this forum for weeks :-(; I suspect he has his reasons;
this is a freeware/donationware app, devs offer support if/when they're able to...

In the meantime, other solutions are available to you ;-)
E.g. you can use the excellent Python CLI app called youtube-dl,
which has a larger team of devs and is being constantly updated :-)
If on Windows, get the latest youtube-dl.exe binary with embedded Python (7+MB ).
You'd also need recent ffmpeg.exe (and optionally rtmpdump.exe)
placed alongside it.
In a command prompt (in that same folder), first type

youtube-dl -F "http://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_evening_news/video/4KoDtyuYfZoRDlldpPP_vKSlLeE0ZEN5/8-28-cbs-evening-news/"

to probe available formats (qualities); then choose the one you like and type, e.g.,

youtube-dl -f hls-1800 --hls-use-mpegts "http://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_evening_news/video/4KoDtyuYfZoRDlldpPP_vKSlLeE0ZEN5/8-28-cbs-evening-news/" -o "CBS Evening News - Mon Aug 28 2017.ts"

The above got me a 540p29.97fps video file, avg BR 1860 kb/s, fine for viewing on a laptop... ;-)

--hls-use-mpegts switch will let you view the file (e.g. with MPC-HC) as it's being downloaded...

Re: cbs not working

laurence37190 — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:28:41 +0000

for me too ! can you help me please ?

cbs not working

chancemimi — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:11:49 +0000

FRD Ver. 0.9u4
Java ver. 1.8.0_131
cbs plugin : 1.2.2

Sample link
[www.cbs.com]
the m3u8 file
[link.theplatform.com]