How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[fezza65]

Originally Posted by streamed

Hi,

I would like to know if one of you can build some sort of QA tool to check/verify the downloads.
Or am I the only one with incomplete downloads?

The batch file version creates a download log version. You can queue up multiple downloads and then execute. At the end, you can skim the download.log file for "Saved successfully" for each file. If you are having problems you may be able pinpoint what it is, eg file not found, error in connection-retrying, etc. from the info in the log file.

You can even queue up the downloads and schedule the downloads for later (offpeak times) using iViewLater, in case your ISP is having dropouts during peak times.

I had one file that I had queued last night, fail, " Error in connection. Retrying...".
That is unusual... I checked the file. and yep, it was incomplete. So threw it away. Will download it again later.

[gxdata]

One for Anywho:
A "missed" episode of "round the Twist" (e10) is actually downloadable, via editing the download_list.xml file created by Batch Downloader, but I can't see any episode details (description, etc) for that episode in the JSON that iVBD creates in \cache\. It's there for ep9, ep12, etc.

Does this mean that iView staff never entered that info - or, can it be located somewhere on the server?

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

One for Anywho:
A "missed" episode of "round the Twist" (e10) is actually downloadable, via editing the download_list.xml file created by Batch Downloader, but I can't see any episode details (description, etc) for that episode in the JSON that iVBD creates in \cache\. It's there for ep9, ep12, etc.

Does this mean that iView staff never entered that info -

If it isn't in the JSON index then none of the downloaders will see it. So yes, that's just the ABC iView staff being slack as usual. In those cases you have to go onto their forum and complain. If you're lucky it will get fixed up but I think you need to do it quickly or else it gets shelved with a "technical problem".

can it be located somewhere on the server?

Not easily - except by the trial'n'error method you're doing now. Unfortunately, with the way the server(s) are set up you can't just do a ftp "ls" (list files) command.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Not easily - except by the trial'n'error method you're doing now.

What's worse (in terms of anything but an ad hoc arrangement, for any of the videos that they present), is that things like video/audio out of sync and worse, are detected by the quality control minions who watch iView and report the problems on the Message Board (ie, general public).
I gather - from reading responses from the iView Mod - that the files they get come from various sources, and the QC is non-existent up to that point.
Add to that, the metadata creation is hit and miss ... as we all know (which is how I have picked up the odd long-past episode remaining somewhere on the servers).

[gxdata]

Has anyone compiled rtmpdump.exe from sourcecode with Visual Studio?

[kharisma]

Is the current version of iViewFox (1.1.8) working for anyone on a Mac, Snow Leopard?

I'm watching ABC in Melbourne. My ISP is TPG.

I've just installed iViewFox and it just plays the video. No offer to save.

Have downloaded the rtmpdump, but there's no .exe in the files. I'm not at all familiar with the code flying around here that many others seem to be fine with.

Was rather hoping the firefox extension would work.

From something I read while searching for an answer, it seems ABS have just changed their settings again. Will iViewFox be updated to cater for that?

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by kharisma

I've just installed iViewFox and it just plays the video. No offer to save.

If iViewFox has installed properly, there should be an "ABC icon" in the status bar (lower right) of Firefox - like the one that iView uses when it is loading into your browser . If you click on that then a "preferences" dialog should pop up. Make sure that iViewFox is set to "enabled" (see attached screengrab).

Disclaimer: Not using Mac here

[kharisma]

Forgot to mention...

Yes the icon is there; it says it's enabled.

Have tried closing down Firefox and restarting - no joy.

There was a message when I first installed it, to copy some command and put it in Terminal - which I did.

??? Am at a loss to know what else I can do.

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by kharisma

Forgot to mention...

Yes the icon is there; it says it's enabled.

Have tried closing down Firefox and restarting - no joy.

There was a message when I first installed it, to copy some command and put it in Terminal - which I did.

??? Am at a loss to know what else I can do.

Perhaps try the terminal command again. Put the following address in Firefox to bring up that page again: chrome://iviewfox/content/ohHai.html

It's possible that my code for checking whether or not the extension is being updated or newly installed could be borked.

[kharisma]

I put the code into terminal again,
restarted Firefox,
went to abc.net.au -
the little icon appears.
Clicked on "Watch Program" -
it went to full-screen and started playing the video.