What's new in svtplay-dl 4.73
Apr 30, 2024
- svtplay: fix crash on some clips
- removed –audio-role (all the interesting audio is in the –audio-language)
- added –video-role. works like –audio-role. but with some improvement. for example alternate-sign role for teckenspråkstolkat. some downloaded videos in 4.71 and 4.72 might have gotten the wrong video because of this….
- added -R for reversed download order with -A. thanks to @ml-1
- spaam
New in svtplay-dl 4.71 (Apr 12, 2024)
- tv4play and svtplay will have the corret order in -A again thanks to @ml-1
- support for regeringen.se thanks to @PierreMesure
- support for vasaloppet.se
- postprocessing should work better with dolby vision HDR
- removed support for subtitles for pluto.tv because their ads makes their mess up with timecodes..
- tv4play handle upcoming videos better so it wont show a error message
- svtplay improved support for syntolkat (sv-x-ad language)
New in svtplay-dl 4.69 (Dec 13, 2023)
- svtplay added support for dolby vision and 4K videos few days ago.
- Add support for downloading dolby vision videos when specify --format dvhevc (you can see what videos codecs videos have with --list-quality)
- You can specify --format dvhevc-51,dvhevc,hevc-51,hevc to only get videos with dolby vision with and without 5.1 sound and hevc with and without 5.1 sound. by default svtplay-dl only download h264-51 and h264.
- Add support for <, <=, > and >= in --resolution
- By default svtplay-dl will download the video with highest bitrate. it could be the 4k video one.
- In case you down want that you can use this feature like this:
- --resolution "<720" will download videos with a resolution less than 720p for example 480p
- --resolution ">=1080 will download videos that is 1080p or bigger.
- I recommend adding this to your
- config so you dont have to specify it all the time
New in svtplay-dl 4.28.1 (Oct 12, 2023)
- tv4play: add support for token
New in svtplay-dl 4.27 (Oct 10, 2023)
- tv4play: fix login issue
- urplay: fix dealing with bad xml data in their dash playlist
New in svtplay-dl 4.26 (Oct 9, 2023)
- tv4play: fix for finding videos on –all-episodes
- tv4play: show a message telling people to use program page with –all-episodes
- Support for caption subtitles
- svtplay: support for subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing.
- postprocess: some weird issue not detecting all tracks
New in svtplay-dl 4.25 (Jul 19, 2023)
- tb4play: new update. -A with - include-clips is removed
New in svtplay-dl 4.24 (Jun 18, 2023)
- tb4play: display error message when user forgot to add username and password
New in svtplay-dl 4.22 (Jun 12, 2023)
- Fixed a crash when not using -M
New in svtplay-dl 4.21 (Jun 2, 2023)
- svtplay: fix so kategori downloads work again -A
- svtplay: fix so lists work with -A
- postprocess: dont crash when only using -M
New in svtplay-dl 4.20 (Apr 20, 2023)
- tv4play: fixes an issue when akamai sends 100+ headers and the script crashes. svtplay: in some cases we could not get any episode number.
- config: fixed a crash when using numbers instead of strings in resolutions
New in svtplay-dl 4.19 (Mar 18, 2023)
- tv4: it should work again.
- svt: it should work again.
- urplay: they added 1080p video.
- svtplay: when we cant find any season number for a series, use the year instead.
- subtitles: some videos on svtplay have encrypted substitles. it should work now.
New in svtplay-dl 4.18 (Jan 11, 2023)
- tv4play subtitles show work again
- subtitles: should work better so we dont have a svtplay issue again.
New in svtplay-dl 4.17 (Dec 1, 2022)
- svtplay: fix subtitles again. they reverted back to the old format. now this will support old and new.
New in svtplay-dl 4.16 (Dec 1, 2022)
New in svtplay-dl 4.15 (Nov 23, 2022)
- tv4play: they changes their site again
- sanitize the file name a little. like removing : from it. windows dislikes it
New in svtplay-dl 4.14 (Oct 25, 2022)
- pluto.tv: improved detection of season and episode number
- pluto.tv: improved ad detection
- tv4play: they changed their site
- tv4play: show an error message when geoblocked instead of crashing on retries, because they send 5xx error message instead of 4xx one
- nrk: should work again
- urplay: support for only audio files
- windows: fixed so it works with windows 7 (time to upgrade…)
- added a new argument --filename so you dont have to use config file to access it
New in svtplay-dl 4.13 (Jun 6, 2022)
- pluto.tv: add support for vod videos
- switched building windows .exe with python3.8. it should work with this old unsupported windows 7 again. people should upgrade to a newer version that have support…
- dr.dk: fixed an issue that made files huge (several gigabytes when it should only be one).
New in svtplay-dl 4.12 (May 16, 2022)
- tv4play: fix so all-episodes work again
- solidtango: make it work again
- config: fix so proxy work
- Added a new argument --resolution. --resolution 720 will download 720p videos. --resolution 720,1080 it will look for 720p and 1080p videos. if no video with that resolution available it will show an error message.
New in svtplay-dl 4.11 (Mar 29, 2022)
- svtplay: fix so subtitles works again
- angelstudios: adding support for
- dr.dk: add support for bonanza videos
- fixed a crash with semi silent option
New in svtplay-dl 4.10 (Dec 20, 2021)
- discoveryplus: add a message that we cant download any more videos
- svtplay: fix so all-episodes only download the same tv show
- köket: add support for downloading videos
- urplay: fix downloading thumbernail
- viafree: dont crash on some videos
- Improve help text on -M
- tv4play: fix so all episodes work
New in svtplay-dl 4.9 (Nov 4, 2021)
- –subfolder can be used with –output when its an directory
- postprocess: fixed an bug detecting ffmpeg.exe in the same folder was svtplay-dl.exe
- svtplay: fixed an issue when the video page is up but the actual video is gone
- svtplay: revert a change that made some files become very small.
- urplay: update detection after site update
New in svtplay-dl 4.8 (Oct 27, 2021)
- svtplay: detect videos after they updated their site
- postprocess: remove srt file when we merged it
- dr.dk: support for srt files in hls files
- dr.dk: dont crash on videos without subs
New in svtplay-dl 4.7 (Oct 20, 2021)
- viafree: fixed a crash that was in the previous release
New in svtplay-dl 4.6 (Oct 19, 2021)
- tv4play: another month, another update
- viafree: fix so -A works again. forgot to fix it last time
- postprocess: on windows systems only: if ffmpeg.exe is in the same directory as svtplay-dl.exe, it will use it if it cant find it in PATH
New in svtplay-dl 4.5 (Sep 15, 2021)
- tv4play: fix so it works again
New in svtplay-dl 4.4 (Sep 13, 2021)
- pokemon: make it work with other languages than english
- tv4: fix so it works again
- subtitles: fix a regression from previous version
- output: proper fix paths with ~ in it
- riksdagen: fix so it works again
New in svtplay-dl 4.3 (Sep 10, 2021)
- barnkanalen: fix so it work with the site again
- pokemon: fix so it work with the site again
- viafree: fix a crash on the site
- fetcher.hls: fix so we detect audio better
- subtitles: in some cases we used dot instead of comma in timecode
New in svtplay-dl 4.1 (Jul 11, 2021)
- added support for output format “mkv” via ffmpeg with the argument –output-format. config value is “output_format”
- add support for /genre/ downloads on svtplay.se, it will take some time to load.
- fixed a bug related to merging multiple subtitles into the file.
- fixed a crash related to miliseconds in dash files.
New in svtplay-dl 4.0 (Jul 11, 2021)
- Fixed an issue with multiple subtitles that was introduced in 3.9.1
- Fixed a crash with subtitles with no language info in them, saw it on viafree
New in svtplay-dl 3.9.1 (Jun 7, 2021)
- Add support for different audio languages and roles (see –list-quality to find what is available)
- cmore: fix so –all-episodes work again and add dash streams support
- tv4play: add dash stream support
- discoveryplus: add support for standalone videos
- Improve –list-quality output
- Renamed dplay to discoveryplus, viaplay to viafree. display a warning message if the old names still in use.
- Added –no-remux, –no-merge, –no-postprocess and –keep-original.
New in svtplay-dl 3.8 (May 14, 2021)
- rewrote the code that find already downloaded videos and skip them.
- discoveryplus: fix a crash with a seriers with an empty season
- urplay: fix a crash downloading videos
- urplay: fix all episodes work again
- viafree: handle multi subtitles videos better
- unrelaed note. there is a discord server now, link in the bottom.
New in svtplay-dl 3.7 (Apr 28, 2021)
- discoveryplus: fix another crash and better way to detect related episodes
- svtplay: improve getting the correct episode name
- svtplay: fix a crash when downloading clips
New in svtplay-dl 3.6 (Apr 20, 2021)
- discoveryplus: fix a crash in some cases downloading all episodes.
- urplay: fix autonaming on movies.
- –list-quality: list resolution on videos who have it.
New in svtplay-dl 3.5 (Apr 15, 2021)
- svtplay: forgot the fix for all episode option in previous release.
New in svtplay-dl 3.4 (Apr 14, 2021)
- svtplay: fixed a crash due to some issues on the web site
- svtplay: improved detection on episode numbering
- nrk: fixed an issue
New in svtplay-dl 3.3 (Apr 14, 2021)
- tv4play: using -A incorrectly downloaded wrong videos sometimes
- svtplay: fixed a crash with -A on some tv shows
- svtplay: improve detection of season and episode numbers
- svtplay: dont crash on non-existing video
- subtitle: stpp support
New in svtplay-dl 3.2 (Mar 12, 2021)
- svtplay: new site, new update
- drop support for python 3.5, only support 3.6+
- urplay: extracting filename metadata
- viafree: fix subtitles
New in svtplay-dl 3.0 (Feb 15, 2021)
- svtplay: fix a crash downloading tv-show thumbnails
- discoveryplus: better way to identify free and premium content
- viaplay: find the correct subtitle language instead of use the first one.
- fixed an issue with having cookies in config file