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Please upgrade to the latest version. At the moment iVN downloads to the programs own directory. |
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The ability to save to another drive/directory would be VERY nice though. What do others think? :) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersthe version numbers are written in reverse date format ie YYYYMMDD :) so the version you were running (20101014) was built on 14th of October 2010, while the current version (20101103) was built on 3rd of November 2010.
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersHi Guys,
A question on the iviewnapper mp4 format. Apologies if this question is already covered. The iViewnapper MP4 format does not appear to be widely recognised. VLC does it, but not much else. My LG telly does MP4 just fine, but not the 'napper' version of MP4? By way of contrast, the ABC direct download MP4 (which is available from the ABC for certain recent screenings), is far more compatible with a wide range of players ... including my LG telly ... on a usb stick. :) |
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I've included my solution to this which is a couple of bat files using ffmpeg (all of 3 must be in the same directory, with the mp4s) and another zip with a cmd program called recycle.exe which need to be put in the windows->System32 folder the remux.bat converts whatever file you drop n' drop on it into an mp4 with directly copied streams ie no reencoding (also works with plus7 flv files as they are also F4V), while the feeder.bat will go through every .mp4 file in the folder and will run them through the remux.bat. the recycle.exe is required to send the originals to the recycle bin rather than deleting them outright in case some thing goes wrong. lastly I suggest you get mediainfo as it is a nice quick acid test on whether the remux was successful as if it does not show data for all segments (container, video and audio) then its a dud and need to restore the original and go from there. Obviously this is a windows based solution, and will be little use to you if you're running a Apple or Linux machine. EDIT: forgot to mention there is another windows solution somewhere in this thread, a VBscript that also uses ffmpeg, and automatically takes care of mentioned 'problems', (which I should clarify is a bit of junk data at the end of the files, I personally use frhed to fix this, but it is almost irrelevant now as problem files are becoming rarer.) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersInterview with ABC iView's Arul Baskaran, at Lifehacker.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?s=Arul+Baskaran Avoiding the DRM issues. Flash will be used for some time yet; HTML5 maybe, still some time off; PS3 / XBox support not changing much; etc. |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersRequest to mce at next release of iViewNapper: to add a refresh function to the catalog / main list of series / index listing (? as displayed by the Catch Up button).
The iView staff seem to update the catalog frequently, which means that to "see" ['The Midday Report'] for example, I need to quit iViewNapper and restart it a few times during a day. It's hard to predict when a show will be mounted. With the huge number of new shows on iView, this catalog updating is much more frequent at any time around the clock. |
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Cheers Edit ... And I did. Thank you sooo much ... works perfectly. 'Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones' was tonight's very sweet treat. :) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersiviewfox is not working. Is there an update due soon?
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One more question? Given that the Iview (Original and Remux'd version) is some 30% larger than the direct download version; is the Iview version by definition; higher quality? Here is a MediaInfo snap of two identical episodes of Rake series One, Episode 5. ie 401 vs 555 Kbps ![]() |
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The "remux" version has a resolution of 640x360 and uses a higher bitrate. The default of iView video on the web. The remux version "may be" better because it is larger in resolution (more information in the image). I say "may be" because it depends on what resolution the original video was to start with. Strictly speaking, the native resolution video will give a better image quality than one that has been up/down-scaled to another resolution. However, seeing as we don't know what the video resolution is that they start(ed) with, it is best to use your eyes to judge that (compare the two). |
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In a technical sense the higher the bit rate the higher the quality, whether its a noticeable/significant difference is another matter altogether. Also the resolution being higher means that on bigger displays the iview file will look better. the problem with asking which is better is that it is very subjective and context variable with such a relatively small difference. EDIT: Haha Anywho Just beat me to the punch. |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersThanks Guys. :)
The "direct" download has a resolution of 512x288 and uses 401 Kbps The "remux" version has a resolution of 640x360 and uses 555 Kbps An Olin STB recorded version has a resolution 720x526 and uses 4739 (?) Kbps So it appears that neither of the MP4's are in native resolution. Here is MediaInfo for the Olin STB recording. ![]() |
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640 / 16 = 40, 360 / 40 = 9. The 16:9 ratio is maintained. With the one from your Olin STB... 720 / 16 = 45, 576 / 45 = 12.8... The 16:9 ratio is not maintained. So, what I think is happening is that STB's are upscaling the 640x360 video or, more likely, the video is transmitted from ABC as prescaled-up (dimesions required for PAL-TV standard transmissions in Oz.) [edit: Note that the 512x288 also gives a 16:9 ratio - so again, either could be the original (or neither ;))] [edit2: It doesn't half get ugly after reading Wikipedia on the subject of PAL, 576i, and Anamorphic widescreen. Bleh!] |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders:) :) :)
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersI cannot access a program called How To Be A Little S*d, presumably because of the asterisk in the name - the error reads Illegal characters in path. Is it possible iViewnapper could be enhanced so it does not try to use any illegal characters in filenames? Would be appreciated.
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I will be around (and can see this forum) for an hour or so, so send a PM or post a question here. |
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If so, please give me more details about how it's not working. What happened when you click on the "Watch Program" link after selecting a show. Does the save dialog box come up? Also, what's your operating system and ISP? |
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersErm looks like illegal characters problem in Iviewnapper getting a file with "s*d" in the comedy section...by the way am a programmer, I like these programs alot and could help if someone developing them wants contact me.
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' This uses the full list of invalid characters - regex method (FASTEST) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersBoth iViewNapper and iViewNapperLite have been updated to fix the illegal character in filenames problem.
Please check the websites for the new versions (20101217). A reload of the browser cache may be required. |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersmce, suggest you attach the same URL fetch code to the [Catch Up] button, as you would have used in the initial population of the listbox - ie, reading the series catalog by a fetch from http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex
batch downloader has a similar refresh capacity (I assume the URL is the same that you are using) (otherwise, I find I need to quit iViewNapper in order to do that refresh) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersiViewNapper Version 20101218.
iViewNapperLite Version 20101218.
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersJust a for-information-only post, on iView's cataloguing omissions (with thousands of shows current, it's probably getting to be more difficult for the ABC workers to track these things ).
Notice the school holiday flavour (not really my taste in shows). Done on 05/01/2011, with Batch Downloader v15.81 with editing of the download_list.xml timmy time 1/20-21 timmy time 1/26 peppa pig 3/9 bob builder 15/5 bookaboo 1/8 chuggington 2/12 gimme 3/1 Mister Maker 2/18 arthur 4/10 NOT FOUND: Mister Maker 2/19 Interesting that with the Batch Downloader, even though Arthur Series 4 was no longer listed, a simple edit of the xml file worked. |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersiView player (website) is OK, but the downloaders are not connecting - approx 20:20PM AEST.
:mad: Have they changed the internals or the JSON format again? If so, how can I detect that? [Edit] + 3 hours and it seems OK to download (Gardening Aust 21/46) |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersI am a newbie to this but I have some s/w development experience.
Can anyone help with iView_Downloader_OSX? I run v6.8 which fixes the problem of the ABC Index having moved, but I have also tried v6.7.3 (after updating the index bit) with the same result. I run a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and took the precaution of building rtmpdump using Macports. The error is shown below. Is the fact that the host and token are blank/empty significant? --------------------------------------------------------- Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all, 0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list: 377 Please Select an Option 1. Add another show to the download list 2. View the download list 3. Clear the download list 4. Download the list (Always attempts to retry) 5. Convert all files in download list 6. Exit 4 Number of downloads 1 Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02 and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4 Retrieving Token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 192 100 192 0 0 1081 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 from ABC iView servers on using the auth Running Hostworks... RTMPDump v2.2 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Error code 1 Sleeping for 5s Ok, you will be requesting deep_10_01_02 and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.flv Retrieving Token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 192 100 192 0 0 911 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 from ABC iView servers on using the auth Running Hostworks... RTMPDump v2.2 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Error code 1 Sleeping for 5s etc ... -------------------------------------------------------- Note: I am trying this because I can't get the iViewfox addon in Firefox to work - any ideas there? |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersby-gum - re your problems, when was this? If in the last hour or so, then see my previous post.
I'm using Windows downloaders, and none of them currently work with iView despite the iView player/viewer working fine with 10 separate series, approx 30 separate shows. [Edit: 2hrs later than my reply, Viiew Player is working again for me] |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersgxdata - also happened yesterday - when I first started on this journey. The index still downloads ok as of 15:57 AEST (475 entries)
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More info: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/rtmpdump.1.html I remember that I had problems getting rtmpdump working on pre 10.6 OSX systems because of issues with Open SSL. I would hazard a guess that that is causing the authentication/token issues. |
Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersThanks Yansky for your quick reply.
Number of downloads 1 Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02 and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4 Retrieving Token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 192 100 192 0 0 1002 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 from ABC iView servers on using the auth Running Hostworks... RTMPDump v2.2 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP DEBUG: Hostname : 203.18.195.10 DEBUG: Port : 1935 DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:deep_10_01_02 DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://203.18.195.10:1935/ondemand?auth= DEBUG: swfUrl : (null) DEBUG: pageUrl : (null) DEBUG: app : ondemand?auth= DEBUG: auth : (null) DEBUG: subscribepath : (null) DEBUG: flashVer : LNX 10,0,22,87 DEBUG: live : no DEBUG: timeout : 120 sec DEBUG: SWFSHA256: 96 CC 76 F1 D5 38 5F B5 CD A6 E2 CE 5C 73 32 3A 39 90 43 D0 BB 6C 68 7E DD 80 7E 5C 73 C4 2B 37 DEBUG: SWFSize : 2122 DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe. DEBUG: Closing connection. Error code 1 Sleeping for 5s |
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersAnywho - Thanks -tried it and the error report is different:
(failed to connect socket) ----------------------------- Number of downloads 1 Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02 and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4 Retrieving Token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 192 100 192 0 0 540 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 from ABC iView servers on using the auth Running Hostworks... RTMPDump v2.2 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP DEBUG: Hostname : 203.18.195.10 DEBUG: Port : 1935 DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:deep_10_01_02 DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://203.18.195.10:1935/ondemand?auth= DEBUG: swfUrl : (null) DEBUG: pageUrl : (null) DEBUG: app : ondemand?auth= DEBUG: auth : (null) DEBUG: subscribepath : (null) DEBUG: flashVer : LNX 10,0,22,87 DEBUG: live : no DEBUG: timeout : 120 sec DEBUG: SWFSHA256: 96 CC 76 F1 D5 38 5F B5 CD A6 E2 CE 5C 73 32 3A 39 90 43 D0 BB 6C 68 7E DD 80 7E 5C 73 C4 2B 37 DEBUG: SWFSize : 2122 DEBUG: Setting buffer time to: 36000000ms Connecting ... ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 60 (Operation timed out) DEBUG: Closing connection. Error code 1 Sleeping for 5s ------------------------------- |
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloadersAnywho - progress! We seem to retrieve some data and then:
--------------------------------- .... DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 92197 bytes DEBUG: (object begin) DEBUG: Property: NULL DEBUG: (object end) DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <_onbwcheck> DEBUG: Invoking _result DEBUG: RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 239 bytes DEBUG: (object begin) DEBUG: Property: NULL DEBUG: (object begin) DEBUG: Property: <Name: level, STRING: error> DEBUG: Property: <Name: code, STRING: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound> DEBUG: Property: <Name: description, STRING: Failed to play /flash/playback/_definst_/deep_10_01_02; stream not found.> DEBUG: Property: <Name: details, STRING: /flash/playback/_definst_/deep_10_01_02> DEBUG: Property: <Name: clientid, STRING: V5ugVnsT> DEBUG: (object end) DEBUG: (object end) DEBUG: HandleInvoke, server invoking <onStatus> DEBUG: HandleInvoke, onStatus: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound ERROR: Closing connection: NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound DEBUG: Closing connection. Error code 1 |
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"$CURDIR"/"$FLVSTREAMER" --resume -r rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net////flash/playback/_definst_/$SHOWPATH -t rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net/ondemand?auth=$TOKEN -o "$CURDIR"/"$FILENAME" $SWFPARAMS Code:
"$CURDIR"/"$FLVSTREAMER" --resume -r rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net////flash/playback/_definst_/$SHOWPATH -a ondemand?auth=$TOKEN -o "$CURDIR"/"$FILENAME" $SWFPARAMS Code:
"$CURDIR"/"$FLVSTREAMER" --resume -r rtmp://203.18.195.10/ondemand?auth=$TOKEN -y $SHOWPATH -o "$CURDIR"/"$FILENAME" $SWFPARAMS Code:
"$CURDIR"/"$FLVSTREAMER" --resume -r rtmp://203.18.195.10/ -a ondemand?auth=$TOKEN -y $SHOWPATH -o "$CURDIR"/"$FILENAME" $SWFPARAMS |
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