[Support Request] for anime-on-demand.de

[kitokirisaki]

Example URl: https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/161 (This link is the Mainpage of the Anime. Not the link to the Video)

It is necessary to register

[dstftw]

Post an example URL.

[kitokirisaki]

There is no direct play link . But I have even copied the HTML INPUT tag .

"<" input class="highlight streamstarter_html5" title="Japanischen Stream mit Untertiteln starten" data-playlist="/videomaterialurl/1911/OmU/1080/KFMuN1NUNC8oQDBhMDZiNWUwNTMwMmE3NmMyNTQ3MmRhNDc3NDgxYjllZWFiNWE5NDZjYzQ3MWYxMGNhMmUzY2FmZjI0NmZlMGM=" data-otherplaylist="[]" data-displaydescription="true" data-displaytitle="true" data-nolangswitch="true" data-lang="jap" type="submit" value="Japanisch (UT)" ">"

[dstftw]

You also have to provide account credentials if it requires paid subscription.

[kitokirisaki]

Username:
Password:
Anime: https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/161

You have to be logged in, but you dont have to buy the firs episode. Because the first episode is for free!

[ztarbugz]

Currently they are switching from RTMP streams to HTML5 (beta). As kitokirisaki said an account is neccessary, but you can create a free one. The series following this link is completly free, so testing is possible: https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/162

[Crypt0Graf]

[Alternative Version, if hlsnative is causing quality problems and --hls-use-mpegts doesn't work]

It is possible to download episodes from AoD with youtube-dl. They are using .m3u8-playlists in the new HTML5-version, which are supported by youtube-dl.
You'll need to monitor the traffic, for example with Firefox. After starting the video, you'll get something like "playlist.m3u8?aodSecure_starttime" in the monitor, which can be used for some things, but is basically unusable for download. Under this entry, you'll get something like
"chunklist_w1601181907_b13568000_", this is a playlist on 56b60eb28ccee.streamlock.net:1936 (the streaming-server of AoD) which serves the Episode in "1080p+", which is a high-bitrate FHD-video in Blu-Ray-quality. Under that, you'll get other chunklists, the next should be "chunklist_w1601181907_b6400000_", which is the playlist for "normal" Full-HD. Under this, you'll get other chunklists with lower quality.

UPDATE: The manual above isn't working anymore, as they changed the streaming format for desktop browsers.

Fortunately, youtube-dl is still able to get these URLs. You can list every episode in every format with youtube-dl [URL] -u [username] --all-formats --get-format -e -g > /somewhere/[].txt.
Then open the .txt file an choose your the right URL.
Note: Dubbed animes will result in two URLs per video.
(end of the update)
Now copy the URL with your preferred resolution and open a terminal for youtube-dl. Enter youtube-dl, then paste the chunklist-URL and set an output name with -o [Filename]. The last step is required, because youtube-dl may be unable to set a short filename; so replace [Filename] with you preferred name (need to be without space in the title).
Then press enter, and youtube-dl will download the file. This may take some time, and a 20-minute episode will need between 1.2 and 1.9 GB of space in the highest resolution.

However, this is only possible with the HTML5-version. For more information, look at my screenshot.

Regards,
CTG

[Parn06]

Currently they are switching from RTMP streams to HTML5

While the latest version (2016.04.13) of youtube-dl works fine for series with html5, I can't download any video which is streamed the classic way (without html5).

As far as I understand the code correctly (I'm not good with python) the animeondemand extractor looks for an input with "streamstarter_html5" in its class tag. The "classic" version however does not have this tag. It would be just "streamstarter" instead.

Here are two sites to verify:
HTML5 (works just fine for all episodes): https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/162
classic (just downloads the teasers): https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/137

I suggest a similar approach as there is for downloading the teasers: If no playlist item for html5 was found, then retry looking for the classic way.

[Crypt0Graf]

Hi, the extractor for AnimeOnDemand is still working great for HTML5-able episodes, though they changed the streaming format for desktop browsers recently.
Unfortunately, he isn't able to recognize movies like https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/175 or https://www.anime-on-demand.de/anime/178 , as they aren't listed like episodes.