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Old 03-12-2011, 09:35 PM
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Re: How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders


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Originally Posted by mce View Post
I'm slow to release an updated iVN this time as I changed from WebClient() to HttpWebRequest() and the bugger is timing out 10% of the time now.
I decided to use WebClient().DownloadFile(index.gz) and then use ungzip.exe to unpack the resulting file.
Even if it is actually text-format json, the ungzip.exe utility produces a nice json file (text to text, if you get what I mean).
Not pretty, but it works.
Besides that, I couldn't get the HttpWebRequest to work.

They seem to be using the text format consistently now (not that I have kept track since mid Saturday).

The series and episode naming stinks - almost as bad as Plus7. I think regular iView Player users will get p*ssed off pretty soon.
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