How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[Wahroonga Farm]

Good suggestions b.e.

BTW I do like the full screen option and I always thought the old napper was a bit smallish, real estate wise.

Search is great.

[M3M1E]

Hey blood.eaglz & Wahroonga Farm
Many thanks for the feedback !!!!
Definitely want to improve the UI & more than happy to listen to any suggestions/ideas. I'm sure with a bit of tweaking it could be heaps better. I'm glad you like the "maximize" feature and search features
Eventually I want to put progress monitors inside the UI for the rtmp process(es) that are spawned. Well I have quite a few ideas actually...
At this stage just glad to get it out there and hopefully build up a bit of a user-base - then I might start a webpage for it if people like the s/w.
Cheers
https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

Definitely want to improve the UI & more than happy to listen to any suggestions/ideas. I'm sure with a bit of tweaking it could be heaps better. I'm glad you like the "maximize" feature and search features
Eventually I want to put progress monitors inside the UI for the rtmp process(es) that are spawned. Well I have quite a few ideas actually...
At this stage just glad to get it out there and hopefully build up a bit of a user-base - then I might start a webpage for it if people like the s/w.
Cheers

It is certainly fast, and to my taste is a suitable size and has nice features. Excellent job!!

Maybe a few tweaks could be done..

This link shows images of a version I wrote almost a year ago (27/11/2013), but the iView catalogue metadata overtook my time constraints due to some major personal changes, and it is very faulty now.

These are small images on Dropbox.

There are some configuration toggles (but not persisted to a settings file on disk), to save or not save captions, descriptions, series images, and a log file. Download rates, sizes, etc were saved into the log file and the description file had a little extra info, too (download rate & size, etc).

Also found I like to see some of the iView trailers, refresh the series catalogue, etc. I mused about multiple downloads, had versions that did that too. Checking for possibility of user DL the same show multi times held me back - but for my own use, of course I wouldn't do that ...

Also possible with mine (when working) to rename some shows before the download began (all of the download set would be renamed). Checked for odd characters in filenames, etc of course.

Just a few ideas and UI ideas you may like to steal, or not. Also, I spent a bit of time on useability ("UX") - where buttons etc were placed, distance mouse had to travel, etc.

Just a pity it doesn't work any more!!!

[blood.eaglz]

hey M3M1E,

just a minor bug report, your dynamic "view episodes"/"download" button will not change if you double click the series list rather than click the button, which can be a bit confusing when you see "view episodes" when you're already viewing them expecting the "download" button.

That may be why mce went with the ubiquitous "fetch", rather than deal with dynamic buttons?

[Wahroonga Farm]

Yes noticed the same thing. A bit confusing.

[M3M1E]

G'day again blood.eaglz & Wahroonga Farm,
Ahh cool yep I was just able to repeat that bug - will fix asap & let you guys know when it's done !!
I've been playing around with the UI/layout but I just end up going around in circles a lot hehe oh well it's coming along.
Cheers =) M3M1E
https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

[M3M1E]

OK folks i've made a v1.01 with a few bug fixes & tweaks.

Still got lots of ideas & a long to-do list but i'll release this anyway so we can all be up-do-date !!

You can grab the latest via the FB page here:
https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

A huge shout out to blood.eaglz, Wahroonga Farm & gxdata for your feedback guys It means a lot. M3M1E

[m4rk01]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

OK folks i've made a v1.01 with a few bug fixes & tweaks.

More on the dynamic View Episodes/Download button:
If you click on one of the channel or theme buttons on the right, it doesn't revert to View Episodes if it was displaying Downloads just prior to that.

[m4rk01]

Originally Posted by gxdata

... a version I wrote almost a year ago (27/11/2013)
Just a pity it doesn't work any more!!!

Do you still have a copy of iViewHelper somewhere (Dropbox maybe)?
I'd like to tinker round if you're agreeable.

[M3M1E]

Originally Posted by m4rk01

More on the dynamic View Episodes/Download button:
If you click on one of the channel or theme buttons on the right, it doesn't revert to View Episodes if it was on Downloads just prior to that.

Good spot m4rk01 ! Thanks
Will fix tonight (so it will be in next release)....
Cheers =)