How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

 

Thanks that helps a lot. fwindowTypeSplit should actually be fTypeSplit.

I wasn't encountering that error because that code is only run when you're downloading from hostworks (which I don't, I'm on edgefcs.net)

The debug mode actually just adds the "-z" parameter to rtmpdump, so it doesn't really help with the javascript code.

I've been realising lately that I really need to change the way I code. I need to put more try/catch/throw's in my code to make it easier to debug.

ok, lets try this again, 1.2.7 is the latest: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...wfox/versions/

(thanks mce :) )

Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

 

Yay! Itsa Mario :D

Working now, mate :cool:

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An rtmpdump question: when it's capturing the stream, I see output that indicates the total duration expected (metadata stored in the show being streamed).
Can I capture that piece of data (eg, it is 301.08 for Peppa Pig S2E9)?

Reason: it would be nice to have real size and duration - quite a number are hugely inaccurate as stored in the iView index/catalog/json files.

Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

 

1.2.7 fixed it for me too :cool:

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Fri 11March2011 @ 6:20PM (Sydney time):
The iView page works fine, but iViewNapper / Batch Downloader cannot get the catalog/index file.

I guess I need to sniff the iView page http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/recent

The catalog file (20Kb only) seems to be binary - possibly GZIP compressed?
[EDIT]
The file is not opened using standard compresion utilities, but I recall an article by Rick Strahl from a while back which shows what to do on the client side (most browsers will deflate web pages with GZIP encoding without problem, he says).

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/102969.aspx

This online tool proves the stituation:

http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

If the iView catalog/index URL (http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex) is pasted into it, it is unpacked to JSON code.

That is the problem.

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A quick n Dirty test looks like that is the case, it is Gzip compressed.

using gzip from GnuWin32 allows decompression back to text.

find the line:
bin\wget %WGET_OPT% -O "cache\index.json" "http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seri.......
chg to bin\wget %WGET_OPT% -O "cache\index.gz" "http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seri
and add the lines:
gzip.exe -d "cache\index.gz"
ren cache\index index.json

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That works up to a point - I'm not sure what my problem is.

The Index is converted to text (index.json) and I can read the Episode .json files (in the cache folder) too - but the batch file fails.

(I will try to get the GUI version working later; my saved catalog.json from that is not liked by gzip.exe)

OK - fixed.

With the batch file, gzip.exe needs to be in \bin\ - funny that having it in my working folder (where the .bat file is) did actually create text .json files for index and series (mistake earlier - not episode .json files of course).

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Seems like it's back to plain text at the moment... They're probably playing around with it again :rolleyes:

edit: Yep, and now it's back to compressed. Let it go for a couple of days before committing anything ;)

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Are you sure?

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LOL! Yes! They're flipping between text and compressed... Probably watching this tread (hi guys!) :D

edit: I'll knock up a cheap unzipper later if they keep it ;)