How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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I located this -
"New ABC iView plug-in for TunerFreeMCE"
while looking for activities of a Microsoft employee during the last 5 years.
I haven't tried the application, but someone might like to give it a burl and then add some notes to the wiki.

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I've just tried again and still no go. Previously when it has been a file
issue at the server you can't play the file 'live' either but in this case it
works (thus no issue for ABC to fix). unless I'm misunderstanding what
you mean by a problem at the server.

EDIT 6.00am Still not working

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iViewNapper still won't download the show.

This may not help you much, but I would recommend playing the episode at iView Player, and capture with Stream Transport. It works for me.

At the iView Player, use the A to Z programs search, choose K, and click Kumare. It plays OK for me, and I can capture the video to disk.

The links shown in a browser along the way, if copied and then used at a later time are not useful, though.
These are the links:
Link 1
Link 2.

Just why this happens for some shows/series (not only with Kumare), I don't know.

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I haven't used ST since it stopped working on the age, but after a couple of tries it worked a treat.

Thanks

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[Off Topic]
This is not appropriate here, but some of you guys will point me in the right direction, I'm sure.

Is there a forum here (or elsewhere) that might help me do a conversion of an.MP4 download/capture (used Stream Transport) from an ABC website?
I need to convert to the Sony/Panasonic MPEG format described here ?

That is AVCHD

As a service to some friends, I would like to get a couple of shows onto an SD card and readable by their 2006/7 vintage TV (Panasonic TX-32LXD600A, commonly sold in Australia around that time).

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Videotools is a good site for converters: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tools...y=Name&hits=50

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Ta - looking now.
[Edit]
OK, I got MultiAVCHD v4.1 - can't join Dean from Bulgaria's forums to ask help. Says problem is that the W and H are non-compliant (512x288) Tried a few other files, no go.

Maybe I need to buy a WD media Player - I have seen chatter that recommends that as the only solution for the near-useless SD slot in those older Panasonic LCD TVs.

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iView has lost Series and Episode # information again - and it's on my favourite show "Driver Dan Series 2" :rolleyes:

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You can also consider a dick smith set top box, the media play back on them is surprisingly solid, I have a GH5930 which I use as a media player ($39.98 according to site) and it plays back pretty much anything I throw at it (avi,mp4,mkv,mpg haven't tried vob or dat/vcd) though it doesn't like vorbis (ogg audio), but few things do.

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They're friggin' nifty little things, aren't they?!? Great value for their price. Does timer recording too. Had mine for about 6 months now. Hasn't missed a beat.

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True, haven't used the pvr function too much though its nice to have standard mpeg-ts rather than some proprietary format or partition, its a pity that this functionality never seems to make it into their tvs though, the inbuilt pvr is a POS in them (including time-shift) and playback limited to Xvid/DivX. The funny thing is the box does roughly the same job as the big media players for a 1/3 the price, but doesn't really mention it in the manual so surprised the heck out of me when an mp4 played let alone an mkv :)

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Seems good. I was considering one of the WD devices because of the WiFi and DLNA, but it would just be nice to put a few videos / pics onto a USB stick or drive and be able to play them on many of the older TVs.

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If you're going to use "old" equipment, then these are great value for the price. They've got Composite, Component, and HDMI outputs so you're well covered there. I use the HDMI on a Samsung S27B350H LED monitor, but have fed it into Composite and Component TV's with great results.

I haven't tried Text Captions on stuff recorded via the PVR function (posts on WP say it's broken), but if you're interested I'll record something and see what the ins and outs are if you like (PM me) ;)

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Version 20130301 is available on the website.

• Fix for missing episode image URL.

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The last week or so I've been seeing:

It always came up as UNMETERED before. The IP address content is coming from is: 203.18.195.10 - which is on the Node unmetered list: 203.18.195.0/24

So what is happening with the script? Running: iView_Downloader_v15.85.bat

Thanks!

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Hi servalan.

Looks like they've changed the config file a bit and the parser in the batch file is getting confused. It still is "free"... You can check for yourself by going to:

hxxp://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/auth/?v2

You can view the source code for that page in your browser, or just look at the end of the line in your browser when you use the above link... It should say "]]> yes" meaning "unmetered".

Thank you for the bug report... I haven't downloaded from iView in a while now. I'll do a fix sometime on the weekend (hopefully).

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Just an update to the above post...

If you want to fix it yourself, just open the iView_Downloader_v15.85.bat file in a plain text editor such as Notepad (NOT Word or WordPad!) and change line 55 from:
to:
and save the newly modified file as iView_Downloader_v15.86.bat and use that.

edit: New links to fixed files are in the Wikia (see first post on the first page of this thread for links to Wikia)

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Thanks for the speedy reply - patch applied & working as expected now.

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Thanks for also doing the file name fix, no more renaming files or ridiculously long file names :D

Now if ABC could start using proper mp4 containers we'd be set

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Linux Iview downloader, anyone? I tried downloading Python-Iview, but the host domain seems to have gone away:

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Hi ^_^
I have been having problems downloading The Fog Of War with iviewnapper 20130301. It's not showing the thumbnail & when I try to fetch, it says 'unhandled exception.
This also happened with Capturing The Friedmans, but seemed to fix itself.
this is all that shows in the 'summary' box
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?series=3328908

when i try to fetch, it comes up "unhandled exception..." "no default member found for type 'integer'"

this is part of the details
************** Exception Text **************
System.MissingMemberException: No default member found for type 'Integer'.
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Symbols.Con tainer.GetMembers(String& MemberName, Boolean ReportErrors)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBind ing.CallMethod(Container BaseReference, String MethodName, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Type[] TypeArguments, Boolean[] CopyBack, BindingFlags InvocationFlags, Boolean ReportErrors, ResolutionFailure& Failure)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBind ing.InternalLateIndexGet(Object Instance, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Boolean ReportErrors, ResolutionFailure& Failure)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBind ing.LateIndexGet(Object Instance, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames)
at iViewNapper.Form1.ProcessSeries()
at iViewNapper.Form1.ListBox1_DoubleClick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventAr gs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.O nMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.W ndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


i can watch the show on the iview website ok.

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Hi folks,

I was looking at adding a plugin for playing these streams on an enigma2 receiver and I was using the XBMC add-on as a base.

The stream does not play however so I'm wondering if the rtmp stream format has changed since the development of the XBMC add-on.

This is a generated rtmp url that is currently produced but not playing:
Anyone know if this is a valid url?

Thanks in advance,
mcquaim

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These are the command lines generated by the iView_Downloader batch file:

This downloads fine for Hostworks. I don't know about Akamai (I'm not on an Akamai served ISP).

PS: Don't try the above command lines now as the "auth" token will have expired by the time you read this;)

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Perhaps that might be my issue, the format of the url looks different depending on the host..

I will try changing it slightly to see if this is the issue, thanks for the help :D

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This is from iViewNapper-ish:
Hostworks (not Akamai), and of course the auth varies always.

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Hi,
I have been using the latest iviewnapper, but it is not working. It is returning empty files.

Thanks

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Make sure you delete the empty (0 byte) files before trying again, otherwise RTMPdump will keep doing it.

Also, what were the names of the files you wanted to D/L?

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Thanks for that I will delete the zero files before trying again.
The files themselves vary for example Elements series, MasterCl;ass with Jamie Cullum, as well as others.

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Just for possible other troubleshooting info, in case it's a host specific problem...

• Which ISP are you using?
• Is your connection to your ISP good? (eg: you don't have frequent dropouts, slow D/L's, etc.)
• Can you watch the programs via the iView site?

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I'm now getting unpopulated (blank) buttons for my "genre" groups, but can still fetch the Series and download the Episodes.
It's a little awkward, of course.
Some tweaking of iView categories, etc must have occurred this afternoon.

[EDIT]
Well, I just checked the categories.xml file, re-loaded the downloader and presto! It is back to normal. Weird ...

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Federal Budget:

Government funds iview live streaming pilot
- $30 million in funding for ABC online services
TechWorld staff (Techworld Australia) - 15 May, 2013
(read online)

The federal government's 2013-14 budget includes $30 million for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online services, including its popular iview streaming platform.

The funding is intended to help maintain and expand the ABC's online content services, including a pilot for live streaming of ABC TV and radio.

"The funding will better equip the ABC to provide the mobile and online content that audiences are demanding in ever-increasing numbers," ABC’s managing director Mark Scott said.

The ABC's iview streaming service launched in 2008. The broadcaster launched an app for Apple's iPad in 2010 and for the iPhone in 2012. The ABC said an Android iview app in development [1] in October last year. The iview app is one of the 10 most popular iOS apps in Australia.


References
[1] http://www.computerworld.com.au/arti...l_development/

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I wish to download a live program that was streamed live last night on ABC News 24 "Community Cabinet"? I can't find in it in the list in iViewNabber?

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'Napper won't download live streams, as you know. But experience shows that some News 24 stuff appears on ABC websites, as videos that can be downloaded. Occasionally, they are also put onto iView.

What was it you wanted? The PM's community cabinet?

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Hi, i've just started using iViewNapper 2010301, mainly because we are too far from the exchange to whatch iView live on our crappy sync speed. Anyway, the kids button doesn't seem to work, causes an exception crash or something. I still can get the kids stuff via the catchup button though.

Is this a known problem, or something on my end?

Thanks
Jamie

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Not sure if you still have the problem, but your RTMP host/server is wrong, it should be cp53909.edgefcs.net.

I've never gotten the fallback server (which is cp44823.edgefcs.net) to work for me.

The rest of the arguments look correct, and I'm assuming that the part after the colon isn't part of the url but something the enigma2 uses to work out the title.

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There have been changes to iView and it affects the way some free sites are now not free.

The new auth xml is below.

If anyone has the new url to pass to iView for free and not free ISPs then post here please.

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Looks like ABC has gone to AdobeHDS downloading at least for its Free quota ISPs.

This is very similar to what SBS did earlier with manifest files and such.

The AdobeHDS.php downloader would be required to get such things.

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See here...

hxxp://code.google.com/p/hdsdump/

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Have gone there previously and it is old code rehashed to C#.

It's getting the AUTH parameter that is holding things up.

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Please note:

Internode asked for me to remove the Napper files from their web hosting site as their T&Cs allowed them to do.

The downloads will be offline until another site can be found.