How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[melmac]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

Lots more work has been done on iViewRipper, i've fixed subtitles and added some more information like file sizes and extra sort functionality. Another version will be posted on the FB page later this week. Cheers M3M1E

Long time user of iview napper now that it appears to be completely dead I've come looking for an alternative what can I say wow I was really surprised that iviewripper was so easy and just worked thank you very very much!!

[spin35]

It took a while, but it looks like MCE has passed on the baton. Well done to Lameboyadvance and M3M1E for your efforts. Now SBS...

[Brogar]

iViewRipper is a great app ! Worked perfectly first time. I'm a Mac OS X user and so can't run Windows apps (currently running iViewRipper in Win8.1 Enterprise trial in a VM).

I use WINE to run a lot of Windows apps under OS X. But, when I tried iViewRipper it terminated badly saying:

System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for ﺌ벨특�걗 ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Token 0x40000e6 is not valid in the scope of module iViewRipper.exe

This is probably because I'm missing critical dlls in my WINE prefix. Can you advise on what dependencies iViewRipper has ? For example, does it require a particular version of .NET ?

Many thanks.

Garry

[lameboyadvance]

I've updated iViewer to 0.2. I started out trying to 'bugfix' the problems others were having, and by the time I'd rewritten the image preview handling I figured I'd keep on going and add a few more extras.

Apart from the (almost completely) rewritten image loading/displaying listed above, the other feature added is the ability to now sort the xml list in order, alphabetically or reverse alphabetically, and also by create, start or expire dates, ascending or descending. I also added the ability to save a copy of the loaded xml file, so you can download the xml at a time when iView isn't being super-laggy (I've found midnight/early hours to be a good time to do so), then save a copy that you can load from your HDD at a later date. Hiding preview images will also greatly speed up your ability to scroll through the video list as it won't have to try and download the preview image for each one (if you scroll too fast the previous downloading preview image will prevent the current/next images from downloading, in which case the preview will fail. Assuming iView isn't having a lag moment you can click the image reload button to try and download the preview again.
I also added the option of a log file like iViewer (enabled by default, can be disabled if you don't need a log of what you've downloaded).

Finally, I added the choice of using either FFmpeg or cURL as your video downloader of choice. I was hoping to also add multiple-part downloaders such as RTMPDump or RTFLV, but they only seem to work on RTMP/FLV video streams and not direct HTTP downloading.

I also added a couple of debug options. I couldn't figure out why Jamesboy70 was having issues with (what I assume was) the timezone conversion, so if you add 'DebugTimeZone=True' to the 'iViewer.ini' config file it will disable the timezone conversion and leave the times as GMT/UTC. Also I couldn't figure out why m4rk01 got the invalid picture error. I did add (basic) image file checking to ensure the preview image has downloaded entirely, but in case it was something to do with where the image was temporarily being downloaded to I added the option of changing the directory that iViewer uses as a temp folder. Add the directory of your choice to the DebugTempDir option (eg 'DebugTempDir=C:\iViewerTemp\' - make sure the directory exists first) to iViewer.ini and it will override using your windows Temp folder and instead place all temp working files in that directory instead.

iViewer 0.2 http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php...54764591890063

[M3M1E]

This is what SBSRipper looks like so far:

http://bit.ly/1H5WDMK

Work-in-progress, ironing some stuff out but it's look OK I think !

M3M1E

[Jamesboy70]

Originally Posted by M3M1E

This is what SBSRipper looks like so far:

http://bit.ly/1H5WDMK

Work-in-progress, ironing some stuff out but it's look OK I think !

M3M1E

Thanks M3M1E
That looks good will it have variable download rate not fixed to 1500k could use 1000k at times thanks for you work
Jamesboy70

[gxdata]

iViewRipper:
I have just arrived back in Australia, so I'm out of date with 'Ripper versions. The one I have is 31 March 2015, 64-bit.

Is that the latest?

And, what's the situation with iView downloads now? When I last tried, 'Napper and 'Ripper wouldn't work at all, and I hadn't time to try the other alternatives.

[lameboyadvance]

Originally Posted by gxdata

...what's the situation with iView downloads now?..

Around about the 10th/11th April iView downloads were revamped. The old URLs the old versions of Napper/Ripper used won't work on videos posted after that date.

Ripper has now been updated, but I also released a small program called iViewer (see a couple of posts above) that originally started out as a way of automating the 'XML download' method, but now has a few unique features of its own.

Napper is now all but useless.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by lameboyadvance

Around about the 10th/11th April iView downloads were revamped. The old URLs the old versions of Napper/Ripper used won't work on videos posted after that date.

Ripper has now been updated, but I also released a small program called iViewer (see a couple of posts above) that originally started out as a way of automating the 'XML download' method, but now has a few unique features of its own.

Napper is now all but useless.

OK and thanks. Using this board's facility to find all posts by M3M1E, I got to the Facebook page and the URL for the 1May version. I will try that.
I haven't tried your iView v0.2, because I probably need to review its prerequisites again.

[lameboyadvance]

Originally Posted by gxdata

I haven't tried your iView v0.2, because I probably need to review its prerequisites again.

It seems to run on anything XP 32bit onwards. I've had reports of Win 7 64bit, don't know about Win8 yet though. Will probably also play nice with Wine, as long as it supports the system calls iViewer uses (2 of which can be bypassed by using the debug INI file settings listed in the 0.2 post above).

You also need to download the Windows version of either FFmpeg or cURL as well, and select which of those you wish to use as your video downloader in the settings (displayed by stretching the iViewer window until it appears in the gap between the time boxes and the image settings box).