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[Anonymous No.]

How the hell do you download HD videos from bilibili? Using the standard tools like youtube-dl doesn't work, and ripping the flv file doesn't work either.

[Anonymous No.]

For me, it's VideoDownloadHelper to download all the parts (often more than 2 FLVs are necessary), then ffmpeg to concatenate all the downloaded FLVs back one single MP4 file. An example:

- first create a txt file named "input.txt" listing alll the parts, after renaming them, like this (copy what's below and replace the entries by yours):
file 'av19400103.flv'
file 'av19400103-1.flv'

- concatenate the FLVs using this txt file as input, into a single MP4 file (copy that into a BAT file and run it):
ffmpeg -f concat -i input.txt -c copy output.mp4

input.txt, your FLV parts and the BAT file must be in the same folder. The FFMPEG binary must either be in your Windows PATH environment variables or in the same folder as the other files I mentioned.

youtube-dl only downloads a low-resolution variant of the desired video.

[Anonymous No.]

>>18431320
F12

You are welcome!

[Anonymous No.]

>>18434087
?

[Anonymous No.]

>>18431320
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av6236461/

I ripped the 720p .flv just fine, and it seems that 1080p in the settings is bullshit. I guess it DOES download the video at its maximum uploaded quality.

[Anonymous No.]

For some reason, when using "F12" and trying to download what I think matches the FLV, I'm granted with a "You do not have permission to get URL '/b/a0/10130735-1.flv' from this server" page. What is the entry matching the video within the network inspector page?

In the meantime, VideoDownloadHelper downloads the video without any problem. Also, this one is short so it only has one segment. What I posted above (>>18432111) applies for long videos mainly. And I did try again on the "av19400103" example with the inspector. The video is still segmented but not downloadable directly. It's only when triggering the download through the add-on that additional entries, which can be downloaded appear in the inspector window.

[Anonymous No.]

Ah yeah, update for today, as of March 9th 2018. I cannot download from bilibili anymore. No method I'm used to will work this time. Heh, just reading that post I made only a few weeks ago makes me really smile.

And oh, youtube-dil doesn't work anymore, even with it's latest version of 3rd of March.

It looks like something has changed in the meantime but noone is able to tell what it is at the moment.

If someone has clear directions on how to download from Bilbili please share them.