How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

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Anyone able to assist. Iview d/l has worked for 2 months and suddenly getting this.

Which list do you wish to browse:
A. Download new list from iView server

Reading Index...
sort: open failed: /Users/name/Downloads/iView_Downloader_OSX/temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all,
0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list:

have checked path - nothing changed & appears correct
have checked file is read & write

any ideas would be really appreciated.
Thanks:) http://stream-recorder.com/forum/ima...lies/smile.gif

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Thank you very much :D

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vipher,
Thank you. The script is working ok for me now.

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Yeah, ABC "updated" iView again last week... Most of the downloaders have been updated. See the iView Downloaders Wiki for links. Also, vipher has done an update - check the post here.

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My pleasure :D

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I must add my appreciation to mce x 2 and to Anywho x 2.

On another matter: the ABC iView Messageboard makes good reading - and a warning (see later).

Occasionally a program is not at all what it seems!

Ashes to Ashes Se 2 Ep 3 is actually Ep 2

La Stupenda is not Joan Sutherland

Gimme Gimme Gimme - Episode 7

Each of these is something different than its episode title (or even the show). I must admit I'm not a great fan of any of these, though.

Also, saw that early October, ABC Evening News was the same day's news, for about 4 days in a row, even though the date changed each day!

This post is not intended as a criticism of iView staff (I've done enough of that, and they get heaps I think judging by the Messageboard), but if people are going to schedule a lot of downloads it's a warning that they may not be what you think!

In the past, I've had technical glitches within an episode (and there are occasional reports on iView Messageboard about bad synch between audio and video - not to mention CC that are very badly out). When these are mentioned on the Messageboard, and the Moderator reads them, then a few days later there may be a fixed version mounted (with an absence for a day or three).

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Its working great today :) don't know what happened there but yay its working. I actually think there was nothing wrong and it was the flu I had that confused me, now where's the embarrassed icon :D

Oh yes, found it :o

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Thanks Vipher for the new script!

Unfortunately, on my Mac OSX 10.6.4, when I run the file : runme_first, I get the following messages in terminal:
chmod: rtmpdump_universal: No such file or directory
chmod: flvstreamer_universal: No such file or directory
chmod: ffmpeg: No such file or directory
chmod: iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command: No such file or directory
logout

[Process completed]

and the iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command shell has the message of insufficient access priviledges.

Did I implement the scripts correctly?

Thanks again

Aeolus

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So you've extracted the zip file to a folder and run the runme_first and this is the output?
If that's what you did then I have no idea why it's not working... I'll see if I can find a Mac I can test this on tomorrow.
Is it possible to change the permissions manually?

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Hi Vipher. Thanks again for your update.

Yes - after extracting from the zip file, the iView_Downloader folder with individual files were all there (incl the Iview Downloader Unix Shell Script, read me.txt, runme_first etc).

This was the output from the runme_first file when I tried to execute it. I tried to manually change permissions for all of the individual files within the folder, but with no joy.

Thanks again for working on this.

Aeolus

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Ok so I had a go on one of the Mac's at uni and I got the same error as you did when I just double clicked on runme_first. I'm not really sure how to fix it. I tried changing the file to something like:
chmod 755 ./rtmpdump_universal

but that didn't work either. However if I opened a terminal, changed to the directory the files were in and ran it from there it worked just fine. The script didn't seem to give me any errors when running however I wasn't able to test it very well since it doesn't seem to be able to access the internet (probably requires proxy settings). I hope that helps you.

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Some news that you guys should be aware of.

Brothersoft today sent me an email, that they have included iViewNapper on their site.

This draws unwanted attention and I have emailed them back stating that I didn't give them permission to put up the details of iViewNapper and asked for it to be removed, but I am not expecting this to be done.

So I am changing the website link as from now and the new link will be updated in the wiki, so any bookmarked links will fail.

As I say, the attention is unwanted and I've told them as much.

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Thanks again Vipher

I ran the following command lines from Terminal after changing the directory as you suggested :

cd iView_Downloader_OSX_V6
##... then proceeded to manually perform the chmod as written in the runme_first script as...
chmod 755 rtmpdump_universal
chmod 755 flvstreamer_universal
chmod 755 ffmpeg
chmod 755 iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command
##... all good so far

I then pasted in the iView_Downloader_OSX_V6 script directly into terminal after copying the script from :
cat iView_Downloader_OSX_V6

## ... looks good with the menu options appearing as :
Please Select an Option
1. Add another show to the download list
2. View the download list
3. Clear the download list
4. Download the list (Always attempts to retry)
5. Convert all files in download list
6. Exit

## however, when I selected option "1." followed by option "A." the following error messages came up...
rm: /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
Downloading Index...
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
Reading Index...
cat: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/series.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/series.txt: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/temp.txt: No such file or directory
mv: rename /temp/temp.txt to /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/filtered_shows.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/filtered_shows.txt: No such file or directory
Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all,
0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list:

Thanks again for your help so far

Aeolus


Aeolus

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Looks better. At this point you can probably run it by double clicking on the script, or changing to the directory and running:
> ./iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command

If it still gives error messages then there is a likely culprit. I remember this being a problem a while ago for some people. It's around line 25, the line:
TEMPDIR="$CURDIR"/temp

can be changed to:
TEMPDIR=$CURDIR

It makes things a bit messier (puts all the temp files in the current directory) but it seemed to make it work.
EDIT: Removed quotes on script change

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Much obliged Vipher!

It seems that double clicking on the "iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command" script after it got "stuck" after directly entering the script into terminal seems to have done the trick regarding accessing the file "possibleshows.txt" for whatever reason without needing to modify the TEMPDIR vector.

Broadband is now seeing iView downloading action....



Aeolus

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Hi MCE

Akamai seems to be all A OK so far.

I have only recently discovered the forum change (after WP closed the threads :() . Thanks very much to yourself, Anywho and the other coders for continuing this work, it is very much appreciated.

Best regards
Marina M

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I'm using iViewNapper vLatest, and just noticed 0-byte .SRT files.

I'm not sure if the episodes really do have sub-titles, so I will try getting the SRT files for these with the iViewBatch which Anywho modified for SRT files only, and report back.

[edit]
With the batch downloader v15.80, I downloaded a couple of things that normally have a .SRT (eg, Foreign Correspondent) but no .SRT file was created.
Since the iVN has created both 0-byte and non-zero .SRT files over the last 2 days in my downloads, I'm thinking it's the way the 2 programs handle the CC-file creation.
Does iVN look at the 'Captions' flag and decide to create a file, even though ABC haven't yet got the .SRT file and put it in place? (I'm guessing)
For Evening News 20-10-10, the iView Player shows that captions are available, the letters 'CC' comes up on screen, but (in the 2 or 3 minutes I watched the stream) there isn't actually any real captioning.
Confused...

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Foreign Correspondent 19/10/10 doesn't have captions by the looks. There is a caption file, but it contains nothing (of use). See here. 12/10/10 does have a captions file.

Does 20/10/10 even exist yet? At the time I went to the iView site, the Evening News for 20/10/10 was not there (7:58PM CDST). There is a captions file for 19/10/10 - see here.

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Sorry, I should have written Midday Report for 20/10

Am I right in thinking the batch DL doesn't save 0-byte .SRT files, the iVN does?

Thx for the links to the xml files - that makes it clear to me.

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I'm not sure about iVN, but iVD does a conversion from .XML to .SRT using a program (xml2srt). If there's no input file, then there's no output file to create and therefore no 0-byte file. A 0-byte file can be created if the .XML file exists and it contains at least one usable (format-wise) line - even if that line is empty.
No probs. You're welcome :D

[edit: I'll have a look at the Midday Report when I get back home (if I'm in time)]

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No, iVN looks to see if an XML file exists for that program and attempts to decode it with my own XML-SRT conversion routine.

I'll look into detecting zero byte files, (no SRT data) and not writing them.

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Of course it's not a problem to me, just a curiosity - but thanks.

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Looks like they took it down.

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Yep, gone.

They emailed me to tell me that they've removed it so I thanked them.

I hope you guys understand that whoever submitted this to them did the wrong thing and why I wanted it removed.

Hopefully back to normal now.

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Anywho, could you make a GetSRT.bat for me again?

I have compared the v15.70/v15.80 "full" downloaders and the v15.70 "SRT" downloader, and I see substantial changes.

I'm OK with C# and VB.NET but your sophistication with batch scripting leaves me for dead - very impressive, but it's arcane (almost as boggling as trying to learn F# or any functional language).

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Yes, someone was a bit naive* - after the Whirlpool reaction. But no sensitivity about the SBSNapper thread?

* the forum editor can't handle a diaeresis (2dots over the i).

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Here tiz :cool:

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Muchas gracias - eres muy amable!
:D

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Off-topic, but yesterday I researched the download and capture of (Microsoft) Silverlight streams, and found on this board a couple of threads of interest.

In summary, I downloaded a beta application (.NET) that captures a Hungarian TV soapie (it's hard-coded into the app), which captured the thousands of fragments, then merged them into a MKV file that plays very well on WMP 12 and VLC (with Shark007 Codecs installed on my system).

Silverlight is used on (Australian) Channel 9 - FixPlay - and I was interested in the series The Day of The Triffids (classic sci-fi yarn).

The download speed was horrendously slow - 6 hours for a 43 minute episode. There are capture utilities that can get the Silverlight stream and save as WMV (or other formats) in just the running time, but I'm not sure if the slow download time was related to the server speed and my connection.

Silverlight will degrade the video served according to the conditions (providing the server end created the low-res chunks to stream), so capture may not have been a good option.

That is, if I had played the episode 'live' with or without capture, I may have got a poor-quality viewing (and saved video file) and it may have taken well over the 43 minutes running time, anyway.

I'll locate the FixPlay / Channel 9 thread and post this same info there, and also post some links here for those interested.

I just thought it might be of interest to the community.

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7.30 Report 25/10/10 - batch downloader to the rescue, by editing of the download_list.xml file

[7.30 Report 25/10/10][news/730report_101025.mp4]

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New FixPlay thread started here

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Off-Topic - I have started a new thread on SmoothDRM, a Microsoft media product using Microsoft Silverlight.

This Press Release from April 2010 says ABC Australia bought a SmoothDRM license / system.

Question: is this a supplement to iView? I would think so. That is, it's not likely to be a replacement for iView "catch up".

The new thread is here.

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Who knows?!? The ABC are about as logical as poo flavoured lollipops.

AFAICT, it's for the HD content. Unless we are actually allowed to download the content, due to the bandwidth required that's going to alienate even more people than what they are now!

On a side note, wait till more of the Linux guys get a whiff of this ;)

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Does not seem to work on Win2k, or Win XP v5.2600 (ie no SP) both platforms fail with:
EP DecodePointer is an issue also picked up as an issue using another tech tool. Applies to build:

1. json_parser_idx.exe 15/10/2010 18:40:30
2. json_parser_ser.exe 15/10/2010 18:23:38

Was compilation for these versions different to v15.7 ?

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Yes. VS2010 was used for compiling these programs. VS2010 doesn't support anything earlier than WinXP-SP2 for desktops and Server 2003-SP1 for servers.

I have switched to Win7-64 from Win7-32 since v15.7 and my former compiling environment (MinGW, Python, etc) got tossed out in the migration.

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What?!? I ported the original json parser I had to MinGW to avoid those VS dependencies and you put it back. C'mon...
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LOL, just kidding Anywho. How are you guys doing here? I've been out of the scene for awhile now. Are those iView developers still making iView downloader developer's lives difficult and made it worse?

I have a plan for yet another downloader but still have no time to start it. I might ask you to come on-board just in case I start doing it.

Regards,
--elf

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I did it for the excitement :p Had to ditch your "old" json-parser and fiddle with mine because ABC had another one of them "ideas". Was too much of a waste to install Python and MinGW just for the json-parsers (they use that "scons" make system). Was going to do rtmpdump too (works really well with MSVC seems snappier somehow) but there wasn't any need to update it, so I left it.
Yeah. They tried to "optimise" the json by using single letters for the identifiers :rolleyes:
Well, hurry up. ABC are sniffing Silverlight and I can just imagine the mess they're going to make of that! :eek:

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I wouldn't too much. iView will need to be compatible with the PS3, and at the moment, all it is is a website, not an application.

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It's a licensing system (see here) for encrypting video contents. I'm guessing this is probably more to do with the stuff that is sold at the ABC Shop rather than the iView content itself - but you never know what goes on in there heads, hey?

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Wed 3Nov2010 - iViewNapper is crashing for me, any program, but the batch downloader is working for them.
Also, several 2Nov2010 prgs are not in the catalog - 7.30 report, australian story, and the national news. By editing the batch downloader's xml file I can get the first two, but I can't find or invent a 'model' for the nightly tv news, so (once again) it's 'lost' to me.

iVN just exits, no error message, on trying to download an episode (eg, a kid's program like Dan the Driver).