How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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It's my pleasure ;)

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Hey everyone... Just want to ask a quick question.
I had a quick look through this thread but I couldn't see the answer & I really didn't feel like reading through all 50 odd pages.

Anyway I know it's a total noob question so please except my apology now. :)

I can work the script (which is awesome may I say... Thanks Anywho) & I've used iViewnapper a few times before.

I'm just wondering for the shows that list with *** NO DOWNLOADS *** (trying to get Pohs kitchen for my misses). Is there any way to get these episodes? I know you can watch them from the abc website... I'm just assuming there's no way to get the index's for these shows or something & thus why they come up with *** No Downloads ***

Cheers

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Yep, you've assumed right. There's no link to the indexes that provide a program download link for us to work with.

The indexes that do show for the program are only 2-minute introductions, snippets, or a commercial for the show. These just get marked as "*** No Downloads ***" because they're pointless to download. Quite often you'll find that those kinds programs are available only from the ABC Shop directly for buying and downloading.

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Thanks for the reply Anywho much appreciated.

I actually found the episodes on a newsgroup so I might just grab them from there. It was just one of those things I know you can play the episodes from off the website & I knew about iveiwnapper.
I just couldn't work out why they wouldn't list in it even though there on the website. And I started thinking there must be a way! hehe

Anyway thanks for the batch file dude... You're obviously ;) far better at writing them then me.

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Yes it can get confusing as ABC actually has 3 different Video on Demand systems

1) iView
2) ABC video (the video found embedded in the ABC web pages, is seperate from iView, and as such is metered)
3) ABC store

with ABC video, quite often they have a downloadable version of at least the last episode or 2, however with a little knowledge you can generally get almost any video from ABC as they have a habit of leaving the videos on the server, and it appears that Poh's kitchen is no exception, simply copy this link, change the number in bold to the episode you want to download and hit go and a download dialog will appear *warning I have only checked a few ep numbers including 01
they worked but that is no guarantee all 40 will.

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LOL... Classic it works a treat.

Cheers for the help blood.eaglz

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iViewNapper Version 20110318.

* Adds series name to filename.

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For iViewNapperLite 20101218 to add the series name:

Go to line 63: " t2 = episode.b"
and change to " t2 = show.b & " - " & episode.b"

this will add the the series in front with a dash before the episode.

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Thanks mce, glad I don't have to sort out file names anymore :)

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iViewNapperLite Version 20110320.

* Adds series name to filename.
* Resume partial download works again.
* Now using RTMPDUMP V2.3r557.

Thanks goes to Ferret.

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iViewFox 1.2.7 did fix the problems I was having.... but 1.2.8 is broken again for me.
It does not download anything and does not have the icon at the bottom of the firefox window....

w7/64
FF 3.6.15
Hostworks.

Cheers.

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With iViewNapperLite (20110320) I get the following error:
"Script error
Line:39
Char:3
Error: Object doesn't support this properly or method
Code: 0
URL: file:.../ivnlite.vbs
Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?"

Any ideas folks? Files are standard as extracted from zip file. Thanks.

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I can't seem to replicate your issue. If you're not seeing the icon, then I don't think the bug is in the hostin code. It's more likely in the very first bit of code that loads the extension.

Could you do me a favour? Could you install 1.2.8 again and then copy and paste in this thread any error messages that appear in the error console?

(You can open the error console from the Firefox tools menu).

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thanks for the quick response.
It seems after I removed it completely then readded 1.2.8 it behaved itself.
Cheers ;)

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Bugger, I spoke too soon. I have worked out how to replicate the original 1.2.8 problem. If I only have one window open iViewFox works fine but if I open something else in the first and iView in a 2nd window, the icon does not appear in the status bar and iview just plays normally and nothing is written to the error console.

Cheers.

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Hi am new here and I am having some Problems with IViewFox.

1st When I download and says Complete where I put the File, There is No Video File to watch. Why does it do this

2nd Now I can't download anything with it as after the Dos Box gets Connected it just Exit's?

Please Help and I am using the most up to date Version

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This might happen if there is actually no video file on ABC's host server (Akamai or Hostworks) to download or view.

As above and make sure there is not a file that is zero bytes in length with the name of the video you are trying to download. If a zero-byte file is there, then delete it and try again.

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Hi Vipher,
Just coming out from lurk to thank you for all your work. We don't log on at every upgrade you do, but we certainly value them.
We'd be stuck without downloading ABC because of very old slow hardware.

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There is a Video to Watch. There is no File in the Folder at all

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Which version of iViewFox are you using... v1.2.6, v1.2.7, or v1.2.8?

Which version of FireFox?

What OS... Windows? (you did mention the DOS box opening)

What ISP are you with, or if you know, which server host is ABC using to deliver the video to you? It's usually Hostworks if un-metered from your ISP, otherwise it's likely to be Akamai.

Hopefully that'll give enough info for Yansky when he drops by this thread ;)

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1.2.8 for IView Fox

Firefox is 3.6.15

I am using Windows XP SP1 at the Moment but Tommorow I am Getting a new Computer so that can Change.

ISP is Netspace

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Are you using the actual address:

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/

or are you using the iiNet portal to access iView? For example, do you see an iiNet page that "contains" the ABC iView page? If so, then you cannot use iViewFox through the iiNet portal. You can only use the actual http://www.abc.net.au/iview/ address.

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I am using the Direct Link.

Link to Video I am trying to Download:

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/738159

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Try iViewNapper. See if that works for you.
http://users.on.net/~m.elliott/ivn/index.html

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Can you try out this new version for me and see if it works ok with multiple windows?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067588/iVie...rboden.com.xpi

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So is anyone running iViewNapperLite ok currently or are you also getting the script error (shown by me here)?

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Yep that's got it ;)

Cheers mate!

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I'm not seeing it.

I opened iVNL (20110320) and downloaded "7.30 -- 23-03-11" and it downloaded just fine.

I'd suggest that you have some security software that is blocking iVNL.

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I had a bit of a hack at your ivewnapperlite a while ago and have just added the new data format to get it going again.

http://pastebin.com/VHYyuuzG

Any comments?
PC

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So, I notice my AmigaOS version hasn't been update since the 30th of July last year. Thing is, I haven't needed to update it at all, it just keeps on working. Must be something special I do ;-)

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Not quite... I noticed it was broken when they were flipping the index file between compressed/uncompressed a couple of few weeks back.

Lately though, they seem to have stopped that tom-foolery.

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One thing I do differently is when scanning for .flv's and .mp4's, I don't really parse the file properly at all, I simply have it check for .mp4 and .flv, then backtrack until it hits a comma, quote or something that can't be part of a filename. So whatever formatting change they make to that particular area won't have any effect at all.

Where it can be done, I also don't rely on any particular ordering when parsing any other files.

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Examining the iView Player and comparing the JSON files, I can decipher most of the series/episode metadata, except for about 4 or 5.

Can someone take a guess at what the JSON elements (for Episodes) "k", "l", "m" represent?

eg, for Escape from Scorpion Island

"k":"Go to website"
"l":"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/abc3\/scorpionisland\/"
"m":"G"

"k" - ?

My guess is that "l" is the show's website (if the element is absent, there isn't one), and "m" = Classification - but I haven't encountered some 'missing' Episode element letters - c, o, p, t

Also, iView Player shows whether Captions are available (compare for example, Eps 1 and 14 of Scorpion Island) - and I can't see that in the JSON.

Any ideas?

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a: Episode ID number
b: Episode Name

d: Description
e: Category
f: Date Added
g: Date Expires
h: Date Broadcast
i: File Size
j: Duration (in Seconds)
k: "go to website" Text for hyperlink
l: URL used in hyperlink

m: maturity classification (if missing then I think is the equivalent of "E" I've only seen it happen on news/current affairs)
n: file name

s: series screenshot

u: season number
v: episode number

my best guess as to why c doesn't exist is that c in the xml series section (a to f prior to the stepped episode info) contains the description of the series, and if memory serves me there have been shows where each episode merely contains the series description, ergo if episodes d does not exist use series c .

unable to find an indicator for captions, though judging by the slight delay by the iview player showing the availability and the fact that the caption files match the name given in n (except of course the extension) it appears it may simply do a search in http://www.abc.net.au/iview/captions/ for n.xml if matches then is available if not then no captions available

Anywho or mce can tell you for certain :)

anyway hope this helps

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k, l seem logical - m with the "E" variant, is something I haven't seen*.

Yes, logical enough

Yes, that is the way I have been getting them - the config.xml points to that location -

<param name="categories" value="xml/categories.xml"/>
<param name="classifications" value="xml/classifications.xml" />
<param name="captions" value="http://www.abc.net.au/iview/captions/"/>

* The classifications should be equivalent to "m" ?

Thanks - appreciate it. :D

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You wouldn't technically see it as 'E' meaning exempt is represented by m: being non-existant in the xml data (so skips straight from l to n), which is why when you look at a news program on the iview player the entire rating row is missing on the show info box.

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I agree with what blood.eagles posted. (not that that means anything)

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Too modest! Not that I have experience of the other platforms (Windows-only here), but you've done a great job. :D

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well personally it means I wasn't talking out my ass :p

though when you think about it it makes sense, this way they can add/remove/update captions at anytime, all without breaking the player or misleading viewers.

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More on these elements in the JSON - I decided to use the "h" = Broadcast Date one, and (experimenting a bit) found that 3 separate Series don't have it (!), so I need to code around the (.NET) KeyNotFoundException.

(It is 1April2011 - but I'm not joking:mad: )

the Series -
mister maker, raymond, five minutes more *

* Kids shows are convenient