How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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OK, I will have a look. Nice to see that the code is available. It may be maintained when Google changes things, as they're inclined to.

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Wish that was the case .. but I have the same issue every time I try, various times of the day .. and while ripper is doing nothing I can easily get the xml via FF. I've tried every version of ripper .. had limited success with the 1st version .. nada with every one since. Obviously some quirk with my rig &/or ISP that's causing the problem since it's working for others. :(

Is there (or could there be) some way one can load ripper and then load a locally stored copy of the xml file rather than trying to pull one down from the server? Using the xml/browser works for me, but it's hardly elegant. Keyword searches .. fine .. but that only works for stuff you know about .. browsing, looking for new stuff is a real pain and very easy to miss a lot. Pre-march napper worked fine.

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I highly recommend the free, small utility from ASoft, that allows you to determine what Microsoft .NET versions are installed on your Windows computer.

BNW, check your PMs

http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

'Napper required only the 3.5 Framework. 'Ripper needs the v4.1 Framework, and afaik the latest 'Ripper versions are 64-bit#.

It's easy to download and install the .NET Framework v4.1 or v4.2 (effectively equivalent), and this won't cause any other programs on your Windows computer to misbehave.


#My guess is that a lot of ppl will need a 32-bit version.

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Not as far as I know, but this is why I added XML file loading into iViewer.

I have been having problems myself getting a copy of the XML file to download, which means I have had to resort to downloading the xml file via something else, then loading that into iViewer.

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I still use napper to d/l .srt subtitles where .xml is the only available with ripper.
napper is still useful to list current iView titles.

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The ripper has stopped working select a file but it does not download

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...Is anyone else having issues with sbsNapper? Early this morning it was working fine, then when I went to use it later selecting any video it would give me the 404/error message you get when you've had sbsnapper open a bit too long and the video in question has expired.

Closed it and opened a new instance, but as soon as it has downloaded the video information I now get the "Invalid URI: The URI is empty" error everytime.

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You'll need to post these comments over here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...t=2320227&p=15

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re SBSRipper - yes, it is broken. See post at Whirlpool.
You should visit http://www.facebook.com/sbsripper for v1.08 (30th June 2015), which fixes the problem.

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Was working a couple days ago .. but just tried it and get the same error. SBSNapper did fall over occasionally in the past when there were too many eps .. after a week or two when SBS pruned the ep list, it started working again. Dunno if it's the case this time?

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I've never been able to get iviewripper working on my main pc .. it can't d/l the ep database. BUT .. I installed sbsripper and it works fine on the same pc that iviewripper constantly fails. Anyone make sense of this? M3M1E?

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Over here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...t=2320227&p=16

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The 'Rippers use different download 'helpers' - ffmpeg, and wget. You can see those .exe files if you look in the respective
C:\Program Files (x86)\
folders for SBSRipper and iViewRipper.

So, there is a strong possibility that another installed application makes use of (guessing) ffmpeg and this "interferes" with how 'Ripper needs to.

Just how, I don't know; but you did find that iViewRipper does work on another PC than your "main" one.

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I never looked under the hood .. I just assumed they used the same downloaders .. but that makes sense. As for the clash .. the only thing that jumps out at me is that I have a Hauppauge tv card which has a tsr component that loads up on boot. Otherwise I try to run a lean system. But .. the Hauppauge software doesn't use ffmpeg AFAIK.

Mind you, it's NOT downloading the video that fails but the xml file .. and the old napper still happily dls the xml file.

Oh well .. life wasn't meant to be easy. :(

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I'm guessing this ffmpeg tool no longer works. Anyone tried it recently?

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General observation - NOT a criticism of M3M1E:

I guess I shouldn't complain, but there is an inherent problem in iViewRipper not using rtmpdump (and SBSRipper not using RTFLV = the python parallel downloader's method, with a modified URL) in that resume isn't possible.

This is a real problem for those unfortunates with a flaky internet connection.

Though my connection is not great, just OK - at best 6Mbps (download speed 750 KB/s) - I have had a couple of weeks of problems due to one or all of: faulty modem, faulty filter/splitter, faults on the copper line, or my ISP.

If there is no connection, the 'Rippers don't work (no warning messages); if connection is lost, the spawned download processes just stall, and when the internet connection is resumed (with/without modem restart), seldom do the download(s) succeed.

Cancelling the individual processes (or the entire 'Ripper parent process) will delete the downloaded MP4 fragment (or a successful download - I have checked, by making a copy of MP4 and playing*).

* otherwise it's hard to know if a 'saved' file is complete or not

Under perfect internet connection situation, it is fatal to download a show again: the existing MP4 file with identical name (successfully DL previously) will be deleted, and a new DL begun. With rtmpdump (iView or SBS), or RTFLV (SBS) the 'resume' parameter ensured this wasted time/effort/quota didn't happen. I thought that this was so with curl.exe as well (? continue at offset).

There are a few other unresolved problems. It's not a good idea to be greedy, selecting several shows to download at once or more than one very large show (on iView, because of the very modest bitrate of all shows, that means something over an hour or two of air play time).

On SBS, where the SBSRipper uses a high bitrate by default (and no other option), this is a big problem - everything one chooses to download is large. I sometimes like to check SBS News, which I could tolerate at a 512K bitrate (and get 1500K later, if it was really desirable to get a good view).

As I stated at the top, this is not a criticism of M3M1E, who has generously devoted a lot of time to the only tools we have.

But I would like to see some improvements, because many of the problems outlined above affect exactly those who find that they can't use the iView player or SBS On Demand - those with bloody awful internet connections.

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As I said before for ABC I use IDM (internet download manager) for all my downloads in Iview using Firefox and the idm plugin . Start iview find the file that you want click on it to start it to play a box will come up on the top right hand side click on the green arrow a list of various file sizes will drop down chose which you want it will download fast you can pause the playing file if you want to as the downloaded file will be a flash file convert with your favorite converter this works with SBS iview as well but not the encrypted type

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Been quiet here .... v2.13 finally works on my system - thanks M3M1E. However ... I assume it should be possible to convert a downloaded xml file into the dat file that v2.13 requires. Any suggestions? I'm not on FB so I can't post this to M3M1Es ripper page.

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Glad you're having success. Did you find out what the difference between machines was, that caused the one to never work with a 'Ripper until v2.13?

It would be useful to have the 'Ripper "DB" (.dat) file as its raw xml instead of a binary version.

But I wonder if a saved .dat could be used like we used to manually alter input to Yansky's (I think) batch file, to get "expired" shows - like yesterday's WA news, for example.

There are several iView programs, mainly news factual, that have a residence time of a day, and sometimes appear for very much less than 24 hours.

I must try...

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Never could work out what the issue was .. gave up in the end. The xml/browser method, whilst messy, works fine.

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Whatever the problem with ripper on some machines where the index would not download (hence the fix to run if off a local database instead), the latest version (2.15) seems to have somehow fixed the problem. At least on my rig. With 2.15 it happily d/ls the index from the internet, something it's not been able to do in any previous version.
There have recently been some .net patches for the version ripper uses. Maybe there were issues with the original .net release that meant ripper couldn't get the index on some rigs, given the hardware and /ot software environment, and the recent patches fixed it? From the comments, quite a few have had the same issue. I chalked it up to a tv-card, but they are not that common these days, so I doubt it's that. .net quirks sound more likely.

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@M3M1E
It would be lovely for the ripper to 'Remember last window size and position'.

I resize and move the window on my 24" screen every time I open the ripper. :D

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@Laura Ess
Sorry, I don't have a Facebook ID.
For me the font size can be changed under 'Settings', but it seems only after you have LOADED a database
Just clicking "Cancel' and then trying to go to 'Settings' doesn't seem to work!!???
Cheers. :)

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@M3M1E
Hi.
Loading a database from a file always starts the search from the Desktop.
I keep my database files in the same folder as my defined 'Output folder': D:\Rippers\iViewRipper. Which is also where I keep your excellent software. ;)
It would be nice if the 'Database folder' could be defined along with the 'Output folder'.

Thanks.

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Is there a downloader for the 10 network? I have just seen a bit of an Attenborough show on 1, and would like to get it and others in the series to view.

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For Firefox, the Video Download Helper extension does the job on Tenplay (may also be available on chrome).

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I am having a problem today where the database isn't loading past 238 to 242kb, and repeated retries don't work. A day ago, all was well. My internet connection is adequately fast, and SBSRipper loads its stuff for last 2 days (and longer).

Has anyone experienced this recently?

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Same here...

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I've posted a comment on the Facebook location, but maybe I should email M3M1E directly.
But, as has happened before over past years (yes!), the problem may be remedied by ABC in time. Having M3M1E waste time looking for a fix in his code may be futile.

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New version 2.17, 13 November 2015, is available. See link at Facebook.

Thanks M3M1E

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I've just downloaded Midsomer Murders S18E01 - Habeas Corpus.mp4
According to MediaInfo the 'Overall bit rate :657 Kbps' is a little low for my brother's TV.
Can I get a download with a higher bit rate using iView Ripper?

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all the iview downloaders already get the highest quality video iview provides (I think iview only have 2 quality levels, 360p desktop and 240p mobile, but may also go down to 144p, but nothing higher)

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Thanks.
:confused:
Jeez!

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I couldn't find it mentioned here on the forum ... will SBSripper and iviewripper work on a Vista machine? M3M1E's sites say Win7+, however since Win7 is Vista with the bugs fixed (some of them), I'm wondering if it'll work on a vista machine (not mine, so I can't try to install it myself). With .net 4.5.2 installed of course.

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I'm using iviewripper v2.17 (13/11/15) on win xp right now. Been forever since I've tried using sbsripper though so don't know about that one.

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.NET 4.5.2 can be installed on Vista SP2 so I believe it should work no problem. AFAIK the only requirement for the rippers is the listed version of the .Net framework or newer regardless of which version of windows you are running.

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Problem with iViewRipper 2.17 (13 November 2015)! Movie downloads are fine but the subtitles are missing.

Any ideas?

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ummm.
This is a test. Have heard that this thread is closed.

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I would not expect any movies on iView to have subtitles, unless hard-coded into the video itself (ie, not as a separate .SRT file).

I have found that some subtitles, when available (not available for all shows, BTW) are saved as .xml files - which may mean that their format is not handled correctly by the 'Ripper.

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