How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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Try as I might, I get only 100K - 150K of the asset listing. The first 100K comes almost immediately, then it gets way slower - after 10 minutes I now have 400K (less than 1/6 of the data, I estimate). Generally it fails eventually, with curl saying "transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining"

I can't see any curl options that would explain or mitigate this behaviour.

Once I have the asset descriptor, downloading it is no problem at all, but without the descriptor it's a tad difficult. Oddly, iview-gtk has no problem downloading the list, but the list is then inside iview-gtk, and no use to me. iview-cli cannot download the list, which I find even odder (unles iview-gtk is showing me a cached list, I suppose).

iview-gtk cannot actually download items though - whatever method it's using is failing, and has been since about April 10 for me. That's why I'm looking at alternative download methods.

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Oh now this url is a very good one, its a straight up XML file like the "old days" so don't even need to use curl. :D

Now this one is not so well formatted, but as a m3u8 is essentially an unformatted unicode txt file, it too is easily viewed and could also be of use.

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Now you have iview on adownloader. Please use vpn if required. ;)

https://plus.google.com/b/1036522970...09368353/posts

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As at today adownloader appears in the same situation as iV#$wnapper and iV#$wripper - broken to latest uploads.

Micallef's post napper Ep9 and 10 download OK by pasting the browser url, as does Checkout 1, but Checkout 2 appears to fail at the m3u8 parse and hangs this app to the point an os restart is required to clear it.

It hard to know whether it is conspiracy or incompetence behind the iV#$w changes. Ie are they working hard to block downloads or are they just evolving/changing their streaming implementation without much testing.

As a precaution we should all be aware about providing too much info to this public forum in case the ABC developers are actively monitoring it. Specifically mention of still working download methods should be withheld.

The time taken for the app supporters (and the abc itself) to fix the iV#$w failure issues is way too slow - which could boost efforts by the abc to keep changing the implementation, as one strategy to deter downloads.

Certainly PC users are not as badly off as appliance owners. We still have fully working viewing and downloading solutions - as opposed to those owners of now unsupported hardware who find themselves abandoned.

Strategically we seem to be running the VCR recording of TV battle all over again. But this time we don't have the PAL broadcast format standard to limit technical counter measures.

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Strategically we seem to be running the VCR recording of TV battle all over again. But this time we don't have the PAL broadcast format standard to limit technical counter measures.[/quote]

It is a Good Back Plan B
Needs a lot of editing in most cases

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It is a Good Back Plan B
Needs a lot of editing in most cases[/quote]

I have only tested programs. Try now.

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Its been about 7 days since the iView updates were implemented. Pretty soon 'new' videos will start disappearing meaning there will be gaps in peoples collections unless there is a way to download (particularly for those of us on Windows who don't necessarily have access to the command line utilities of other OS).

Is there currently any way to download the newer videos that doesn't require 3 separate programs, or in-browser addons?


Also, where do I download ADownloader from? All I can find is information about a Torrent app for Android.

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for windows you only need ffmpeg, and for ease notepad.

go to https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z in your browser and find the show you are after.
Copy the url between <assetUrl bitrate="650"> </assetUrl> tags and paste into notepad.

add this around url
.

select all and copy to clipboard (you can change x.mpg to whatever so long as it has no spaces).

in the folder containing ffmpeg hold shift and right click an empty part of the folder and then click on "Open command window here" (this works in windows 7 and I'm pretty sure 8/8.1).

right click on the command window and click paste, hit enter and wait for your download to complete.
the silver lining for having to do it this way is that the videos are now remuxed on the fly so no need to do so after the fact anymore.

Hopefully either one of the programs will be updated or the old command line batch scripts to accommodate the new changes.

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OK, so I've just used Flashgot with Mozilla to grab a checkout ep.
I've got a heap of frag files, a manifest and a file that has a VLC icon but it doesn't play anything - The_Checkout_Series_3_Ep_2_cdn.iview.abc.net.au is 165Kb long.
What have I done wrong/what should I do next? :confused:

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How big is 'https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z'? It is taking me forever to download and keeps failing (download speed is sporadic @ about 130bytes/sec).

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approx 1.92MB.

maybe try a different browser. for reference I use Firefox.

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Today, approx. 4.3MB ! (copied to Notepad)

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Tried the link .. got 32K .. and then nothing. Waited 30mins. Looking in what did come down ... no sign of program names. :(

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What the ????!!!! .... the last version iviewnapper *is now working*. And with recent programs!!!

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Sorry guys not a programmer but desperate like the rest since the change.
I noted when trying
https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z
1st time I tried the page seemed to stay blank. I then turned on java and tried again and the page loaded up. Saved to notepad, 1.81MB.
I then tried again with java off (cleared cache first) downloaded OK multiple times, same size. Java a furfy.
Following blood.eaglz post #1128, ffmpeg bombed out with some message HTTP error 404 not found
'a' not recognised as an internal or external command.
I was trying tonights 4corners. Used
ffmpeg -i https://abcsecurehttp-a.akamaihd.net...2eb4112ecbe496 -c copy -y fourcorners-The_merchants_of_debt.mp4
Out of curiosity I tried just the url
https://abcsecurehttp-a.akamaihd.net...2eb4112ecbe496
in my browser (firefox) and a file save window appeared. I saved the file, downloaded at 1MB/s, just a few minutes. It was a perfectly playable 215 MB mp4.
Tried the same with Injustice_01_05. Also OK. 210MB.
Both of these did not download with iViewNapper_20140222
Is this usable or is there an unaceptable resolution?
I tried a few other recent programs and it appeared to work.
Can someone else try this method?
Good Luck.

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You can try adownloader 17.3. It catches the mp4 and the hls ios's

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I keep the manifest in Firefox and use the Find command (Ctl-F) to locate my favourite shows.
Then I use the right click 'Save Link as' command on the URL.
The files are already in mp4 format (checked using MediaInfo) so don't need any further processing.
JC

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Can anyone else who has successfully tried this confirm that java is needed? I don't have java installed and repeated attempts just give me variations of the following:

"XML Parsing Error: unclosed CDATA section
Location: https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z
Line Number 31468, Column 146: <assetUrl bitrate="650"><![CDATA[https://abcsecurehttp-a.akamaihd.net...9a3b664317b71a
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"

And that's *ALL* after 5-10mins and the page being "fully loaded" according to FF. Tried IE .. same result.

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Installed an old copy of the safari browser I had archived .. and retrieved the file like a charm. Evidently something in my FF setup is blocking the page.

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Hi guys, do you know that with adownloader is far more easy?

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Useful if you speak spanish. I'm not about to install something in a language I don't speak. Apart from making it a tad difficult to use, it'd make it even more difficult to know if there is any opt-out bundled crapware. If they had an english version ...

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Worked like a charm, thank you for the simple tip. I used Google Chrome browser. (Right click and 'save as', etc, in my case - since I am not sure there was any 'file save window' there or not.)

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After several days of the index refusing to dl it worked first time today, no probs. Go figure. Make sure you have video player addons disabled or use a clean browser install so you get the "save" option. Now I can again watch those shows that're only on iview .. net connection too slow for streaming. :(

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I used the 'FFmpeg' method to download shows, but I quickly got sick of having to search the XML file, copy the URL, etc.
Until the others get around to fixing their iView rippers, those of you wanting to download shows can try this.

This is something quick I coded up for my own use. I have no plans to maintain it, especially if the others get their programs updated. iViewer will grab and load the XML file of your choice (so far only tried using the 'sony' one listed earlier). I also added the option of downloading the subtitle (if it exists) and converting it to an SRT file (again not guaranteed to actually work).

I made this using VB5 (on XP 32 bit). As such I have no idea how it will handle newer OS, let alone 64 bit. As I have no access to these don't bother asking to fix it if it doesn't work on them. I'm not sure what DLL files will be needed. I included the VB5 runtime DLL, as well as a copy of the Wine version of WININET.DLL. I have no idea if these will work with it as I already have the equivalent DLL files on my PC. You may also need other DLL files I don't know about.

Finally, you will need to download the Windows version (only tried with the 32-bit (stable) version, may work with other/64-bit versions) of FFmpeg from http://www.ffmpeg.org/ and place ffmpeg.exe in the same directory.

Again, I have no intention of maintaining this. Enjoy it while it still works (if it works).

EDIT: Original download was broken when I added SRT support. New download should actually download the right video (hopefully).
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=...92788851534557

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Thanks lameboyadvance, iViewer is a good little program that is a far more convenient way of getting the videos than the manual methods we've had to use, works on Win7 64bit no problem..

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Same for me. Appreciate the good work.

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Now you have with adownloader captions's incrustation for iview.:rolleyes:

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Hi Lameboyadvance (and other forumites),
New poster here with non existent technical skills but a desperate need to start downloading iview program again.
I got lameboyadvance's iviewer to load successfully but it wont download anything as it keeps telling me to download ffmpeg.exe
Now I went to the ffpmpeg website, dowloaded the files, unzipped them into same directory folder as Iviewer but for the life of me cant find the ffmpeg.exe file.
I've restarted my computer, searched the web for a solution but I still cant get it to work.
I know its probably a minor thing I'm missing and I'lll look like a moron with this post but would anyone be so kind to help out a young lady techno-dunce???!!! What am I doing wrong??!!!

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Oh and btw: I'm using Windows 7 32 bit :)

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Here is a link to the latest 32-bit Static version of FFmpeg.
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win...in32-static.7z

As it is a 7zip (.7z) file you will need to download a program that can open them (such as 7zip ;)).

Once you have opened/extracted it ffmpeg.exe should be in the 'bin' directory.

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OK you need to find the windows release of FFMPEG, the main site is Linux based and expects you to build it yourself. It got the Win 32 bit version by following links from the ffempeg.org site to here:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

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To lameboyadvance - many thanks and well done for your efforts.
At first I got an error when I hit the DL button, but it turned out that my version of FFMPEG.exe wasn't as fresh as I thought it was :) .

Perhaps Napper and Ripper can follow a similar process by using FFMPEG instead of RTMPdump.

You mention that you aren't interested in maintaining Iviewer - would you consider sharing the source code so that others can keep the ball rolling?

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Thanks finely got it to work when I copied ffmpeg from the bin to the main folder this process is all a mystery to me but got there in the end I have win7 64 bit

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Downloading from iView:

1: Goto: https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z
2: Search for file you want.
3: Copy file string between -<assetUrl bitrate="650"> and </assetUrl>
eg https://abcsecurehttp-a.akamaihd.net...9e79f00b9d9b4d
4: File is copied to Jdownloader in the "Linkgrabber"
5: Click on "Start all Downloads"
6: Click "Ok" - Add online & offline links to the Downloadlist
7: Open on file to be downloaded
8: Right click on file and select "Force Download Start"
9: Enjoy!

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Slightly off topic ... but is there an SBS version of "https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z" from which one can extract links for individual items? I browsed the SBS thread but didn't see an obvious answer.

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All the FTA stations that have a "catch up tv" app on modern tvs should expose their URLs with packet capture software.

I'd like to know all of them.

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Hi folks,

New iViewRipper BETA version released tonight, download link on here:

https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

Cheers :) M3M1E

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I know I said I wasn't going to maintain this, but I decided to update iViewer.
iViewer 0.1 now includes the option to show preview images, as well as the ability to download a copy of those images at full size should you wish to collect screenshots along with your videos.
Also included is the ability to resize the window, and settings are now saved to an INI file (which also has a few undocumented settings you may want to fiddle with, such as xml/image download timeouts).
I made the preview images download respective to your screen size. Those on larger resolution screens will find their preview images will be larger in size than those on smaller screens. If the larger images are taking too long to download (which is what apparently seems to be the 'lag' issue with the downloaders - sometimes the preview images download instantly, other times they will take ages) try changing the image timeout/retry settings in the INI file, or just disable image previews altogether.
Finally, it wasnt until I had nearly done this update that I noticed a bug in my old version, I apparently left a bit of debug code in that set the XML file location to the 'sony' one, even if you typed in a different URL. That should hopefully be fixed.
I have also removed WININET.DLL from the archive since it seems to exist on every version of windows. I've still kept MSVBVM50.DLL since I'm unsure how many later versions of windows include a DLL from a version of Visual Basic meant for Windows 95.

I don't think I'll be updating much else now that M3M1E is updating iViewRipper again, but hopefully you'll still find iViewer useful.

iViewer 0.1 http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...72627364748317

EDIT: As with the old version, you'll need to download a Windows version of FFmpeg from http://ffmpeg.org/, extract 'ffmpeg.exe' from the 'bin' directory and place it in the same directory as iViewer.

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Ok downloaded it to a new folder when it downloads the xml file I get Run-Time error 13 Type Mismatch and locks up the program