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user wrote:BTW-2: did you forget to sign the xpi files of the 1.5.5.6 branch?

http://hackademix.net/2013/07/20/noscri ... -unsigned/

Thanks for the bug reports.

user wrote: Currently I'm working on sandboxing the YouTube.decode_signature_func

Do you mean to execute the actual YT code in a sandbox and therefore become more resilient to future changes? That would be great!

Anyway, feel free to publish your patches wherever you want but, if is it possible, please email me a copy.

Thank you again

I live in the US - I started to notice the same problem about an hour ago.

The spam filter just ate my post and I don't feel like typing everything again.

JustLikeTomThumbsBlues wrote: The spam filter just ate my post and I don't feel like typing everything again.

I recommend always hitting Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C before posting anything anywhere.

Flashgot stopped working for me on or about August 23.

I load a page with a video embedded in it, youtube or other. The Flashgot icon at the upper-right on my browser flashes. I click on it to download the video. The screen locks for a few seconds and then resumes the video play. The video does not appear in the list of recent downloads (seen by clicking the down-arrow near the flashget icon to open the library) but if I go to the downloads folder the name of the video file is there but the file size is Zero.

Can anyone help me in VERY plain English?

Can you please try the latest dev version 1.5.5.6rc2.

Yeah, I just did. Same issue continues.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling too.

It had been working perfectly for months!

Please create a clean profile from scratch. Install only FlashGot, leaving all the defaults.
Does the problem still exist? If not, FlashGot is not the culprit.

Try adding back your extensions, one at a time, until you find the one that causes the issue.
Then remove all the others, pairing only the suspected one with FlashGot, to confirm that the remaining one is the issue.
If the problem is solved even with all add-ons reinstalled, then the previous profile was probably corrupt. Problem solved.

Let us know, thanks.

Hi,
My comment is related to WinXP SP3, Firefox 23.0.1, Flashgot 1.5.5.6rc2

When Flashgot 1.5.5.6rc2 was just released it worked with all YouTube videos as it was usual before YT changes, I could download a HD VEVO video as a test (http://youtu.be/yx-G_bFeHzw, videoplayback (mp4), 177.655.808 bytes)

A very few days ago Flashgot 1.5.5.6rc2 stopped to work with YouTube VEVO videos, still works with YT non-VEVO videos, seems YT has changed again some of its settings.

That has to do with the way YouTube has been pushing out new encryption and delivery system making it much harder to detect and resolve some of the resources. This is why Giorgio has been working hard on this and much of should have been resolved with the dev build. But if you are still experiencing this, then we must still have work to do. The whole point of this thread actually.

YouTube changed the signature decoding algorithm twice since then, on Aug 26 and 28. I made a basic decoder (for those who don't know ActionScript and JavaScript or just too lazy :p), although it probably won't last long either and we'll need an ActionScript interpreter. I'm having a day off today, so now I'm going to merge my changes with the latest build and post the new version in an hour or so.

Here we go, patched 1.5.5.6: If the signature is incorrect, you'll get the only menu item named "Refresh signature" under the "Available formats" submenu. Clicking it should update the signature decoding function. Then you just refresh the page, and the menu should list all available streams, as usual. If not, check the flashgot.log for error messages.

The version patched by user is working in my system.

New version, YouTube-related changes:

The new version is working in my system, I can download any YouTube video, VEVO videos included, the Flashgot button is shown in Firefox toolbar and its context menu is also shown.