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Originally Posted by PaleWing
I click the 'DL XML file from web' button and it say's it's downloading, but then says 'download incomplete, retrying'
It does this for a while, but i click x to close it & it says it's not responding.
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The code I use to download data means iViewer is basically at the mercy of the sender. I did add cancel buttons, but since iViewer pretty much hangs while it is waiting for a reply means you have to sit there with your mouse pressed on the cancel (or close) buttons until such time as it finally receives data and can actually do things like registering mouse clicks.
I have found that iView does have 'laggy periods'. During these times data seems to download sporadically in 8kb chunks or so, if at all.
I have found the best time to try grabbing the XML file is late night (around midnight/early morning, in my timezone anyway [EST]). There may be other times, but this is the one when I am usually awake at my computer so I haven't tried others. 'Peak times' (after school, primetime etc) seem to be a bad time to try downloading.
In v0.2 I added the option of saving a local copy of the XML file once you have managed to download a copy. Once you have a local copy of the XML file saved you can click the 'X' button to clear the file textbox, then the 'download xml' button should change to a 'open xml' button. Click it and select the copy you downloaded/saved earlier to load the local copy.
...One thing I have realised, since iViewer saves the contents of the file textbox if you load a local file it will show up next time you open iViewer. To get the XML file URL back you either need to close iViewer with the file texbox blank then reopen it, or copy
https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z into the texbox again.
Once the XML file is downloaded/loaded from hdd, I have found disabling images will make browsing the video list quite fast, as it doesn't need to get any other data from the web until you decide to actually download a video.