How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[spin35]

Originally Posted by Kii-lon

Hello, i'm new to this program called iviewripper that you
M3M1E have kindly coded, created and currently work on!

I'm using this program to try to DL some episodes of Maya The Bee, the new 3D animation series off of ABC Australia iView.

However when I try to download a episode using your program M3M1E, the rtmpdump command window opens but quickly closes without any time for me to read.

But I was able to get it to open, snapshot it and see that the problem i'm having is that i'm getting an "rtmp server sent error " and "rtmp server requested close" message.

I'm assuming it's because i'm not from Australia and you can't view the videos and that I need a good AU proxy? Or is it something else that I don't know that's causing the problem?

Anyways I would like some help on this if you can spare the time...that is all, thanks and see ya.

...Oh wait, there is one more thing that I like to ask.
Is it possible to get say...an episode/video off of iView that's currently not on the site?

I found this xml link to all the descriptions and whatnot of Maya The Bee here:
http://www.abc.net.au/xmlcontent/tv/...e-bee/data.xml

and notice that they're some filename path to an mp4 episode named like "kids/mayathebee_01_53.mp4". I feel that it may not be possible though because of reasons...like authentication or something but it's a question i'm pondering and asking y'all if it's possible to get any not currently on iView.

Alright that is all, thanks again and see ya later!

Make sure you delete any zero length files that RMTPDUMP has created. I found when using it with Iviewnapper that a network error may cause a failure but subsequent download attends failed because of the existence of an empty file.

[gxdata]

iViewRipper has a problem, I think caused by the images it attempts to load for each Series being in a different location.

The application (iViewRipper) will stall or be very slow to load and decipher the catalog information it needs to move from one series to another, then give the message (Not responding) on the very top of its windows. See attached image file.


I haven’t checked this out, but I suspect it has happened over the last 2-3 days, series by series, as the transitioning of images occurs on the iView servers.

Maybe I'm wrong. Comments?

[m4rk01]

iViewNapper working fine this end.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by m4rk01

iViewNapper working fine this end.

iViewRipper?

[m4rk01]

Originally Posted by m4rk01

iViewNapper working fine this end.

Posted for courtneyk and Tombs from sbsNapper forum.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by m4rk01

Posted for courtneyk and Tombs from sbsNapper forum.

Reading the posts, those 2-3 individuals are having a similar problem. But using 'Napper not 'Ripper.

So it's probably a problem at the server? It's certainly been around more than a week so far.

I notice that a few Series do NOT have the problem I described, but the majority that I attempt (news, drama) seem to.
The Business is OK.

[BNW]

For what it's worth ..."me too". Ripper works erratically .. and when it does it takes from several up to 10mins to load the index and usually a similar delay navigating to an actual program or navigating to one of the submenus .. doco, drama, abc2 etc. IF I manage to get into the ep list for a particular show then the speed is as expected & no delays accessing any or more than one episode. In the meantime it sometimes greys out and says "not responding". Running Win7Pro 64bit .. and running the 64bit version of ripper. It seems more tolerant of the first few items in a submenu, keep scrolling down & it goes to sleep. Napper behaves the same, but less successfully. Loading the images does seem to be a clue here .. during the "sleep phase" it displays "images loading" or something like that in the image box.
Maybe a future update could have the option of disabling the download of the screengrab images for both series & episodes? I don't really need a screengrab to tell me what the show is after all.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by BNW

For what it's worth ..."me too". Ripper works erratically .. and when it does it takes from several up to 10mins to load the index and usually a similar delay navigating to an actual program or navigating to one of the submenus .. doco, drama, abc2 etc. IF I manage to get into the ep list for a particular show then the speed is as expected & no delays accessing any or more than one episode. In the meantime it sometimes greys out and says "not responding". Running Win7Pro 64bit .. and running the 64bit version of ripper. It seems more tolerant of the first few items in a submenu, keep scrolling down & it goes to sleep. Napper behaves the same, but less successfully. Loading the images does seem to be a clue here .. during the "sleep phase" it displays "images loading" or something like that in the image box.
Maybe a future update could have the option of disabling the download of the screengrab images for both series & episodes? I don't really need a screengrab to tell me what the show is after all.

(I've left the full quote here, for context)

The work-around when 'Ripper stalls is to wait until the Series image appears, or if it doesn't you will see (Not responding) on the top line of 'Ripper (to rhs of the gmail contact address), and the mouse icon will show the spinning thingo.
Click the X at top rhs of the 'Ripper application, and choose the top option (if there are 3, good; if only 2, then you will have to re-load 'Ripper).

Having said that, right now it's not too bad - and many of the Series pictures are appearing OK.

[BNW]

> Click the X at top rhs of the 'Ripper application, and choose
> the top option (if there are 3, good; if only 2, then you will
> have to re-load 'Ripper).

Thanks .. it works.

[M3M1E]

Hi guys !

Thanks for your recent comments and posts: BNW, gxdata, etc

It can still be slow to initially load up (I have a few ideas on how to fix that) but I think i've fixed the delay in navigating now, slow image thumbnails, etc. I reckon you should all try my latest version and see how that goes !!

https://www.facebook.com/iViewRipper

M3M1E