How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by spin35

Has anyone taken up IviewNapper? 20140222 has stopped working for me - looks like the site meta data format has changed .

It's a non-trivial exercise to analyze the intermediate metadata on a "system change", and turn that into code like the 'Napper uses. I did it myself prior to November last year but I'm not up to speed with the necessary changes that [*mce] has made since, due to time constraints, and that hasn't changed.
If iView is back to normal, and 'Napper works OK for the next 3-4 weeks, I will look at the 'metadata' and re-write my code in preparation for yet another iView change.
But no promises.

[deant0]

I just want to point out that since iViewNapper is a .NET program, the complete source code can be retrieved from the .exe file by using a free decompiler such as ILSpy, or similar.

No need to get the source code from MCE!

[gxdata]

It's a possibility to decompile, but much simpler if mce could make the code available.

I would be willing to make the upgrades - eg, the buffer for the catalogue encoding that the March 2014 version of SBSNapper handles has been exceeded in the last weeks (I haven't tried since late August), so an increase in that buffer value in code would allow the SBSNapper to handle today's available load.

(I do know that this is the iView thread, btw)

[PaleWing]

iviewnapper is still working ok for me (well it was last night)
sbsnapper has the json error
"Error during serialization or deserialization using the JSON JavaScriptSerializer. The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property."
sbs napper was working fine 2 days ago (i often leave it open, so is this kind of thing onnly noticed when opening the program? like it won't affect it if it's already open)

[Calvin1961]

As far as I know, leaving SBS Napper open means you are not reading the latest programme catalogue from the servers, you have what was read at SBS Napper startup. After a couple of days the data is going to be "stale" with new programmes missing and old programmes you still have listed in fact "taken down" and no longer available.

I did hear discussion a while back that SBS are lazy and in fact just remove stuff from the catalogue, but NOT from the server, and you can in fact retrieve "removed" programmes if you can craft (or have) an appropriate CURL query to issue :-)

Calvin.

BTW: Again apologies, I KNOW this is the iViewNapper thread, but I thought it best to respond where the comment was posted.

[PaleWing]

Yeh, which is why I'm bummed I closed it. I could probably still download the things I wanted to (just not the new ones)

iview napper seems to add new episodes, but not series. So you can leave it open & it will update, but not new series.

[blood.eaglz]

PaleWing, In case you haven't noticed, MCE updated SBSnapper on the 9th, allows downloading of everything except HDS streams.

[M3M1E]

G'day folks,

iViewRipper is my attempt at making an alternative piece of software to iViewNapper. The interface is really fast & I have added some extra channels and a search tool. Otherwise it works in a very similar way to iViewNapper. It's brand new, i've only spent time over the past couple of weeks, so please bear with me ! I've uploaded a a BETA version that is basically stable but i'd love to hear people's feedback & ideas about this !

The software can be downloaded from my iViewRipper FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

Cheers =) M3M1E

[Wahroonga Farm]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

G'day folks,

iViewRipper is my attempt at making an alternative piece of software to iViewNapper.

Cheers =) M3M1E

I'll have a play.

thanks for your input.

Edit: Seems to max my 6/1 satellite link just fine.

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

G'day folks,

iViewRipper is my attempt at making an alternative piece of software to iViewNapper. [/url]

Cheers =) M3M1E

Had a quick look, and is certainly a prettier alternative, works well and loads the program list faster to boot.

A few things about the ui.

1. It's huge, it takes up 1.5+ times the width that iviewNapper does on my screen, and about 1.2 times the height.

2. The Exit button is not really necessary, or should be below the 'about' button (I can see accidental exits when trying to click 'panel', and maybe even 'educational' from where it currently sits rather than accidental wrong genre pick).

3 Don't like how categories are essentially split into 3 parts, with the channels on top, genres to the right, and overview (home) in the middle. If could be made to fit, shrink the buttons down and have all in single column, or more likely a double column on the right.

4. Were you to follow my opinions above, the search bar (great to have that BTW) would end up being 'orphaned') so assuming 'exit' moved to under 'about'/removed, and double columns with 'home' being moved to where the exit button currently is (more or less) then move the search bar to where home currently is, then eliminate as much unnecessary negative space, by reduction first, then stretching the elements to fit what cant be eliminated.

If interested I could do a diagram of what I mean (tried doing a mock up by editing a screenshot, but that was a total mess)