How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[BNW]

Tried the latest version .. took several minutes to load up the index, but I was patient. I was able to navigate to the episode menus of at least 6 shows (which was 6 more than I was getting), all without forcing windows to restart the program. Sometimes it worked fairly quickly, other times "not responding" and whited out .. but I waited and it started up again by itself. Sometimes the screen-grabs for the shows showed up, other times they didn't. Personally I don't need them .. I can always google a screen-grab if I needed one. Managed to retrieve several episodes ... so it's working, even if glitchy as you noted. But glitchy is better than not at all. As an aside, sbsnapper is working fine at the moment.

Thanks muchly!!



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

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[spin35]

My observations are that Napper and Ripper are exhibiting similar behaviour. There are times when navigation between shows and categories appear normal, and others where both programs go "out to lunch" for a long time before returning. If it is related to the thumbnails, I wonder if its something the Iview folks have done to the site that may be the issue. Perhaps some logic to prevent "long lunches" by returning from a thumbnail fetch if it is taking to long or not found.

Can we have an option to disable the thumbnail download? I'm not a thumbnail user, so it would be fine by me.

[davey52]

I've just tried to download Clarke & Dawe using both napper and ripper but both close after d/ling the srt file leaving a 0KB mp4 file. using 32bit version. D/L QI last night with no trouble. just tried (for test) chuggington and it fired up alright. I can view it just not d/l it.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by davey52

I've just tried to download Clarke & Dawe using both napper and ripper but both close after d/ling the srt file leaving a 0KB mp4 file. using 32bit version. D/L QI last night with no trouble. just tried (for test) chuggington and it fired up alright. I can view it just not d/l it.

Yes - today and yesterday I have found the same (0-byte mp4), for most News, for Shaun Micallef, #TalkAboutIt, Capital Hill, Gardening Australia - it seems to have begun on 8 April.

I tried 'Ripper 1.02, 1.03 (64-bit only) and the latest 'Napper and unsurprisingly the same behaviour for each is observed.

Unrelated - I have so far (3 weeks absence) found no problems attributable to the series images. Am I right in thinking that 'Ripper v1.03 occasionally tells me that no image is available?

This seems to be a serious change.

[gxdata]

8 April 2015 - start of 0-byte MP4 files

Note that the SRT (caption) files have valid content.

Conclusion: there must be a change of location on the server for the video content, starting progressively for all shows (series) from that date.

'Napper / 'Ripper effectively broken?

[Blaxland.john]

Clark and Dawn

look at differences
http://iviewmetered-vh.akamaihd.net/z /SMIL/clarkedawe_15_10_hi.smil/654000_0f984da3d7f9380
http://iviewmetered-vh.akamaihd.net/z /playback/_definst_/_video/clarkedawe_15_11_,650000,97598,40789,.mp4

I did have gardening Au
Similar How to overcom?

Will RTMP work if in Manual

John

[craigboz]

Interestingly, WebDL from 26 March gets it right so any change must be subtle. Sadly, WebDL has its own set of problems with dropped frames at the moment but that's unrelated to the current problem with Napper/Ripper.

Originally Posted by gxdata

8 April 2015 - start of 0-byte MP4 files

Note that the SRT (caption) files have valid content.

Conclusion: there must be a change of location on the server for the video content, starting progressively for all shows (series) from that date.

'Napper / 'Ripper effectively broken?

[Blaxland.john]

Since Clark and dawn 15-11 did not work
I downloaded 15-10 which does below.

Format looks the same?
How much of the data is collected from sites etc ?

==============================
url: http://iview.abc.net.au/auth/flash/?
==============================
token: daEdEbZaeaocBcObHc0atc6cVdIbYbJafbW-bvkHei-8-jlm_vEvpM&aifp=v001
host: AkamaiHD | free: No
show: clarkedawe_15_11
ext: .mp4
ep: clarkedawe_15_11.mp4
episodelist(x): Clarke And Dawe Episode 11
epsa: clarkedawe_15_11.mp4
episodelist(x)sa: Clarke And Dawe Episode 11
args: -r rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net////flash/playback/_definst_/clarkedawe_15_11.mp4 -t rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net/ondemand?auth="daEdEbZaeaocBcObHc0atc6cVdIbYbJafbW-bvkHei-8-jlm_vEvpM&aifp=v001" -o "Clarke And Dawe Episode 11.mp4" -W "http://www.abc.net.au/iview/images/iview.jpg"
ctr: 0
capURL: http://www.abc.net.au/iview/captions...dawe_15_11.xml
srtFilename: Clarke And Dawe Episode 11.srt
==============================
url: http://iview.abc.net.au/auth/flash/?
==============================
token: daEccaxchcMb0dgcfdcd5d3aXcEboc1aCcT-bvkIuP-8-lko_yGzoH&aifp=v001
host: AkamaiHD | free: No
show: clarkedawe_15_10
ext: .mp4
ep: clarkedawe_15_10.mp4
episodelist(x): Clarke And Dawe Episode 10
epsa: clarkedawe_15_10.mp4
episodelist(x)sa: Clarke And Dawe Episode 10
args: -r rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net////flash/playback/_definst_/clarkedawe_15_10.mp4 -t rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net/ondemand?auth="daEccaxchcMb0dgcfdcd5d3aXcEboc1aCcT-bvkIuP-8-lko_yGzoH&aifp=v001" -o "Clarke And Dawe Episode 10.mp4" -W "http://www.abc.net.au/iview/images/iview.jpg"
ctr: 0
capURL: http://www.abc.net.au/iview/captions...dawe_15_10.xml
srtFilename: Clarke And Dawe Episode 10.srt

[BNW]

Ditto .. the latest version sometimes eventually decides for some reason of its own to forgo thumbnails .. and then it all works speedily. Or worked .. before the next issue showed up that others have noted.

And ditto re an option to turn off thumbnails .. and keep them off. Unlike the subtitles which seem to turn on every time it I run irip.

Originally Posted by spin35

My observations are that Napper and Ripper are exhibiting similar behaviour. There are times when navigation between shows and categories appear normal, and others where both programs go "out to lunch" for a long time before returning. If it is related to the thumbnails, I wonder if its something the Iview folks have done to the site that may be the issue. Perhaps some logic to prevent "long lunches" by returning from a thumbnail fetch if it is taking to long or not found.

Can we have an option to disable the thumbnail download? I'm not a thumbnail user, so it would be fine by me.

[BNW]

Over the past week or so I've found d/ls to be very erratic. Sometimes it works first try .. once irip managed to get to the episode I'm after .. as it is right now (Dr Who Confidential 1.10). Plays fine after d/l. Other times I need to repeatedly attempt a d/l with all sorts of different rtmpdump behaviours .. sometimes it hangs on 0%, a few times it gave a brief data burst, said 845% (yes 800-something %) and hung, other times got part way thru' and then hung (as in over 15mins - I was patient), or one of a bunch of rtmpdump error messages and then rtmpdump closes. Just tried midsummer murders 17.1 and it's ongoing with no issues.

One thing I did notice is that I seem to have a better success rate if I double click the episode to initiate the d/l rather than single click and then click the d/l button. Quirky, to say the least.

Actually it is working better for me today than it did on sat .. when I had to try 5 times to d/l something. Today (mon am), two trys, both immediate successes.

Maybe there's a bandwidth issue on the iview server which is causing the issue? I did notice back in the past that around the time a very popular show went up on iview than inap would hang on 0%, part way thru' .. or give one of the same error messages that I've been getting with irip recently. Wait 1/2 hour or so, try again .. and worked fine

Originally Posted by gxdata

8 April 2015 - start of 0-byte MP4 files

Note that the SRT (caption) files have valid content.

Conclusion: there must be a change of location on the server for the video content, starting progressively for all shows (series) from that date.

'Napper / 'Ripper effectively broken?