How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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Yes working now, when will i learn to be patient(gasp)..Anywhos' black magic works again ...lol

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Awesome, thanks.

I really should get updated to 10.6 but there's so much else to be done...

Thanks
Mycle.

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edited 03/08/2010

After doing some investigation, it appears the version of RTMPdump included with the iView downloader script is only 1.6 not 2.x (with the required verification features) so the downloading issues I am experiencing are caused by this version of RTMPdump after all. that means that the method described below will not work. :(

I can't seem to find any binaries of RTMPdump v2.x for OSX 10.5 and it looks like people are having trouble compiling it under 10.5 for various reasons, but due mostly to dependencies on other libraries/packages. It looks like it might not be possible under 10.5 without some serious tinkering...

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Hey mycle, i have the same problem and found a little workaround (if you don't mind a little fiddling) to get iViewFox working on OSX 10.5

The ABC iView downloader script for OSX over at source forge has a version of RTMPdump that works with 10.5. If you do a quick google for "sourceforge ABC iView downloader OSX" you should find it.

Download and unpack it. Copy the rtmpdump_universal file in the package over to the iViewFox rtmpdump directory as described in the error message. In your case this appears to be:
/Users/mycle/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/113g9ho0.default/extensions/iViewFox@forboden.com/rtmpdump/
For other people the directory will be slightly different, but you should be able to figure it out.

Then all you have to do is backup the old file by renaming rtmpdump-OSX-Intel to rtmpdump-OSX-Intel.old and replace it with the new one by by renaming rtmpdump_universal to rtmpdump-OSX-Intel
If you are running on a PPC (not intel) swap rtmpdump-OSX-Intel for rtmpdump-OSX-PPC in the above step.

Bingo bango.

This gets me past the immediate [process completed] window and starts the download. Hopefully it will also work for you.

At this point i am getting a few failed downloads where RMTPdump drops out before reaching the end of the download, but I suspect that this is due to some other network issues I'm having at the moment and not RMTPdump itself. This exact build of RMTPdump was working with the downloader script last week until the invalid token errors started. sigh...

Let me know what sort of mileage you get....

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hey is it just me or has resume suddenly started working again (rtmpdump-win32-2.2d)?

maybe the changes at iView are good for something after all.

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Hi guys,

Finally made an account. Just been lurking here since the WP thread was closed.

Anywho,

I made a json_parser that can be use to parse the series and episode JSON files and is not dependent with VS libraries.

It's output is the same but with the special characters cleaned already in order to minimize the cleaning in the batch file itself. Just execute the file to see the parameters needed.

Also, the output of the series has an extra field that denotes the available episodes for that series.

File can be downloaded here.

Cheers,
--elf

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Thank you, elfst0ne. Any chance of getting the source code? I feel uncomfortable not having the source code to modify - in case I/we "urgently" need to.

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TBH, I haven't done a lot of d/ling and when I have there hasn't been a need to resume.

It would make sense if ABC fixed it on their end because I don't think the Adobe client would "recover" either if they don't feed the correct parameters back to it. I seem to remember them having issues with streaming just stopping and not continuing.

So maybe they've fixed it - dunno. Their streaming is so flakey that they should be paying the public to watch it!

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Resume sucks for both iViewNapper_20100715 and iView_Downloader_v15.70 on Akmai. At home sitting on iPrimus get iView unmetered via Hostworks and have no problem with resume (or m.b. downloading simply wouldnot break), but at work having much faster speeds it is metered and Akmai only and download breaks and then resumes with filesize still growing but percentage starting from zero for new eventuating with
".... Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data ...." and ending with ".... Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 1.20%), try resuming Error in connection. Retrying... Press any key to continue . . . ...." and ".... Stream does not start with requested FLV frame, ignoring data... ....". using rtmpdump-win32-2.2d.
Hopefully makes sense and m.b. them fixing or you here contributing

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Yep! You can get it from here.

Please copy the license.txt if you're going to distribute the source codes as this is a requirement by the Boost library (uses 1.42) and JSON Spirit. I've added one for the parser as well for indemnification. Also, I used CMake and MinGW for building.

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Thanks buddy :D

Reminds me... I have to install my compiler stuff again (new rig - W7/64bit)... I'll get 'rountuit' eventually :rolleyes:

Will do ;)

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It does make sense to some degree. I wonder if the Hostworks/Akamai hosts might be using different Adobe FLV Stream Servers (or at least one is better up-to-date).

We need to do some more testing with "resume" to see what breaks on what, and under what conditions.

E.g: Hostworks, CTRL-C to stop a download almost always prevents me doing a resume and will end up with having to delete the file and starting again. Another would be if the Hostworks server stops - a resume gives me a weird number for a file position and it then says something about an invalid file position and cannot resume.

The above paragraph is not good enough... We will need to have the actual error messages in case hyc notices something that might need correcting in RTMPdump.

It is kind of weird though that "resume" is failing where it once worked infallibly before :confused:

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If you've found a bug in rtmpdump, posting it on the rtmpdump mailing list is the way to make sure it gets attention.

Fwiw, it looks to me like rtmpdump's resume is actually working fine, it's just printing the wrong percentage for its statistics.

E.g., let's say you got 80% of a file and then had to resume. It should say that it's resuming at 80% but it will say it's resuming at 0% instead. It will get to the end and report that only 20% was downloaded, because it's not taking the previous 80% into account in the stats. But actually the file is complete...

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Ultimately, this is where they'll go ;)

Here's the one I mentioned about stopping a download with "CTRL-C" and then resuming the file. What I did to get this result was to begin a download and stop it with "CTRL-C" at about 2%. Then I went back and tried to resume the same file download... What you see below is the result:

Anyone else get similar results?

[edit: I used 2.2b here, but the same happens with 2.2d etc. The size of the un-resuming file is 2,949,120 bytes (around 2%)]

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does anyone program in python? i have a version of the downloader in .py with gui if anyone wants it!!! i spent the past year with this!!! i only offer this as i'm drunk!!!

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I like py. ;)

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found a solution for my concern above:
rtmpdump-win32-2.2b instead of rtmpdump-win32-2.2d
makes resume continuing with the filesize and the percentage.

Actually I did notice this kind of hick-ups with resume after moving from iView_Downloader_v15.68 which was the last one using rtmpdump-win32-2.2b.

And even iViewNapper_20100715 resumes properly (filesize and percentage) when faking
rtmpdump-win32-2.2b as rtmpdump-win32-2.2d by simply renaming
b into d (the DOS window title says rtmpdump-win32-2.2d.exe whether the script itself indicates RTMPDump v2.2b (r426))

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As the author of the Nappers, when I release a new version I do testing and the testing for the 2.2d version stopped resume from working, where as noted above the 2.2b version it just worked.

So do the rename above if it is better for you, but as for why resume in 2.2b worked and in 2.2d it doesn't, I don't know why.

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Trouble with iViewNapper_20100715 - initialising iViewNapper

"Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1."

Tried rtmpdump 2.2d and 2.2b (masquerading as 2.2d) but same error.

The Batch downloader seems to be working OK (though slow).

I haven't used any downloader since 25July.

Anyone else having problems today?

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So, 2.2b seems the best to use...

But what happens if you use "CTRL-C" to cancel the download and then resume with the same file again? Does anyone get the same result as me (posted above)?

Is anyone else getting other issues with RTMPdump resuming?

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That sounds like iViewNapper couldn't get the index for some reason... Try again a bit later.

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You're right.
As a software service, it is a very unreliable way to operate. I hate this hit and miss nonsense.

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Which one is unreliable? I hope you're NOT pertaining to Napper as you got it for FREE.

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Broken again - json_parser.exe is crashing when attempting to grab the show list.

(bat file version)

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There's a problem on iView website itself.

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Ahhh - I should take my own advice & check there first - thanks!

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:mad: You're being obtuse, and/or you mis-understand what I mean by SAAS. Of course I appreciate the work done by this community and the individuals.

Of course iView isn't set up that way; it's meant to be interactive - which means that 'Napper' (or whatever) has little hope of working in anything other than a human-driven mode.
Even the batch file driven method can't cope with the changes to iView, or even the routine occasions when they add or change the controlling xml and json files.

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Well, if you made yourself clear enough instead of whining.

Unless you tell or beg to the iView Developers who maintains the data to be put in a fix-format and made them agree with you, you can't do anything about it.

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Awesome, works like a charm.

Thanks
Mycle.

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Can anyone download the latest ep of "The Prisoner"? Seems to be creating and error in rtmpdump:

I thought that might have just been an issue with my compile since "malloc_error" would seems to indicate some sort of memory error, but I just checked it in Windows and it borked as well. Seems to work ok for other shows though.

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Yep. Working fine in batch file version with 2.2d.

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iViewNapperLite, W7x64, V2.2d worked OK here.

Therefore I have a copy if you need it.

Cheers.

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i was wondering if you could help me with my problem, look i want to download eps from iView but i cant because i dont live in Australia, i tried with the Napper program but looks like i need to be in Australia to make it work, is there a way i can download the videos from iView?

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Yes, ABC iView is Region Blocked (aren't they all :rolleyes:). Currently, the only way downloading can be achieved outside of Australia (that we know of) is with an Australian proxy server or VPN that is based in Australia. :(

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Is anyone viewing or downloading the Radio 1 Big Weekend 2009 videos?
I see 3 at present, and previously looked at the Maximo Park one. Question: have any others slipped past me?

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I wonder if this iptables hack for hulu could be used on the iview site?

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Hmmm, interesting. Nice find! :cool:

It might work with your iView FF addon, but I'm not too sure about batch or 'napper...

Batch uses 'wget' - I don't think we can get fine enough control on the header.

'Napper uses its own method - I'm not sure how fine you can get the control on the header for that either... mce would have to let us know I guess. :D

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I'm pretty sure the only reliable way is to call your own authentication link and parse the data from that.

That is, to call on a server based in AUS that then fetches the auth XML and passes it directly back to the OS client.

I believe that once a valid token is obtained, then it is useful after that and no further checking is done. (Don't know for sure as I have never tested it)

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I couldn't get the "Lifehacker" method to work for Hulu. Still sees me as outside USA.

Thinking about it some more, how could it work? Comms between my ISP and the Hulu server would still show the originating source IP address (me in Aus.). How else would I be able to communicate with Hulu anyway?

Doing a check with this webpage confirms it. Note that the source IP is still your current IP address even if you spoof the "X-Forward-For" address. So all a streaming server has to do is look at the source IP and make the decision - I'm pretty sure this is how ABC does it (and how it calculates the authentication token).

So no, I don't think the LifeHacker method would work with iView.

[edit: I just tried the "X-Forward-For" address using an American IP address on the iView website and iView doesn't think I'm in Australia. How bizarre! Maybe it (LifeHacker method) will work for ABC iView. ]

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Just a note about occasional problems with iView, where there are illegal characters etc in the title names or file names (I'm not sure which).

It seems this is a problem with iViewNapper (crashes / gives error 'illegal characters in path'), but the batch downloader manages to get the episodes successfully.

The latest of these is Another was where Episode 3 is downloaded by the batch donlaoder OK.

For that one, I can recall that the filenames were The Fabulous Beekman Boys Series 1 Episode 3 -.mp4 / .srt (a dash/hyphen somewhere between the 3 and the period).

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Often, I find that I cannot download the previous day's ABC National News (this happens with The Midday Report, and with both the older Sydney Evening News and the current ABC National News).

I'm convinced it's not put up & left online for long, before it's removed so that the next day's bulletin is loaded to the server.

But in case there is a genuine eror due to the JSON / XML that the iView lads are using, here's my current error dump from rtmpdump 2.2d via the batch downloader -