How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[kauer]

Originally Posted by mce

In the end I had to use this.

curl -k -H "Authorization:Basic ZmVlZHRlc3Q6YWJjMTIz" "https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/samsung/?keyword=0-Z"

Then use your favorite multi-part downloader to fetch the video from the <abc:videoAsset> tag.

Try as I might, I get only 100K - 150K of the asset listing. The first 100K comes almost immediately, then it gets way slower - after 10 minutes I now have 400K (less than 1/6 of the data, I estimate). Generally it fails eventually, with curl saying "transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining"

I can't see any curl options that would explain or mitigate this behaviour.

Once I have the asset descriptor, downloading it is no problem at all, but without the descriptor it's a tad difficult. Oddly, iview-gtk has no problem downloading the list, but the list is then inside iview-gtk, and no use to me. iview-cli cannot download the list, which I find even odder (unles iview-gtk is showing me a cached list, I suppose).

iview-gtk cannot actually download items though - whatever method it's using is failing, and has been since about April 10 for me. That's why I'm looking at alternative download methods.

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by dh0001

more ?

curl "https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z"

Oh now this url is a very good one, its a straight up XML file like the "old days" so don't even need to use curl.

Originally Posted by dh0001

more ?
json m3u8 hls
curl "https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/fetch/?keyword=0-Z"

Now this one is not so well formatted, but as a m3u8 is essentially an unformatted unicode txt file, it too is easily viewed and could also be of use.

[denobis]

Now you have iview on adownloader. Please use vpn if required.

https://plus.google.com/b/1036522970...09368353/posts

[Phantom Menace]

As at today adownloader appears in the same situation as iV#$wnapper and iV#$wripper - broken to latest uploads.

Micallef's post napper Ep9 and 10 download OK by pasting the browser url, as does Checkout 1, but Checkout 2 appears to fail at the m3u8 parse and hangs this app to the point an os restart is required to clear it.

It hard to know whether it is conspiracy or incompetence behind the iV#$w changes. Ie are they working hard to block downloads or are they just evolving/changing their streaming implementation without much testing.

As a precaution we should all be aware about providing too much info to this public forum in case the ABC developers are actively monitoring it. Specifically mention of still working download methods should be withheld.

The time taken for the app supporters (and the abc itself) to fix the iV#$w failure issues is way too slow - which could boost efforts by the abc to keep changing the implementation, as one strategy to deter downloads.

Certainly PC users are not as badly off as appliance owners. We still have fully working viewing and downloading solutions - as opposed to those owners of now unsupported hardware who find themselves abandoned.

Strategically we seem to be running the VCR recording of TV battle all over again. But this time we don't have the PAL broadcast format standard to limit technical counter measures.

[Blaxland.john]

[QUOTE

Strategically we seem to be running the VCR recording of TV battle all over again. But this time we don't have the PAL broadcast format standard to limit technical counter measures.[/quote]

It is a Good Back Plan B
Needs a lot of editing in most cases

[denobis]

Originally Posted by Blaxland.john

[QUOTE

Strategically we seem to be running the VCR recording of TV battle all over again. But this time we don't have the PAL broadcast format standard to limit technical counter measures.

It is a Good Back Plan B
Needs a lot of editing in most cases[/quote]

I have only tested programs. Try now.

[lameboyadvance]

Its been about 7 days since the iView updates were implemented. Pretty soon 'new' videos will start disappearing meaning there will be gaps in peoples collections unless there is a way to download (particularly for those of us on Windows who don't necessarily have access to the command line utilities of other OS).

Is there currently any way to download the newer videos that doesn't require 3 separate programs, or in-browser addons?


Also, where do I download ADownloader from? All I can find is information about a Torrent app for Android.

[blood.eaglz]

for windows you only need ffmpeg, and for ease notepad.

go to https://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/feed/sony/?keyword=0-Z in your browser and find the show you are after.
Copy the url between <assetUrl bitrate="650"> </assetUrl> tags and paste into notepad.

add this around url

fmpeg -i "URL goes HERE" -c copy -y x.mp4

.

select all and copy to clipboard (you can change x.mpg to whatever so long as it has no spaces).

in the folder containing ffmpeg hold shift and right click an empty part of the folder and then click on "Open command window here" (this works in windows 7 and I'm pretty sure 8/8.1).

right click on the command window and click paste, hit enter and wait for your download to complete.
the silver lining for having to do it this way is that the videos are now remuxed on the fly so no need to do so after the fact anymore.

Hopefully either one of the programs will be updated or the old command line batch scripts to accommodate the new changes.

[denobis]

Originally Posted by lameboyadvance

Its been about 7 days since the iView updates were implemented. Pretty soon 'new' videos will start disappearing meaning there will be gaps in peoples collections unless there is a way to download (particularly for those of us on Windows who don't necessarily have access to the command line utilities of other OS).

Is there currently any way to download the newer videos that doesn't require 3 separate programs, or in-browser addons?


Also, where do I download ADownloader from? All I can find is information about a Torrent app for Android.

http://atresdownloader.softonic.com/

[spin35]

OK, so I've just used Flashgot with Mozilla to grab a checkout ep.
I've got a heap of frag files, a manifest and a file that has a VLC icon but it doesn't play anything - The_Checkout_Series_3_Ep_2_cdn.iview.abc.net.au is 165Kb long.
What have I done wrong/what should I do next?