How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[GBDesk]

For Apple Mac users looking to download iView shows, I have written a basic AppleScript applet. As with other apps, it uses youtube-dl and FFmpeg and so works on any site youtube-dl handles. It's called MacYTDL.

To use, download the dmg file, open it, read the Help file and save the applet in a favourite place (eg. Applications). It will download and install youtube-dl, FFmpeg and FFprobe as needed. Those components can be updated from within the applet (except MacYTDL at present). It can uninstall itself. Works basically the same way as other apps => just paste a URL into the box and click on "Download".

Has options for downloading subtitles (always in SRT format at present - embedded if desired), file description, file format, download location, overwriting downloads and verbose feedback from youtube-dl.

The AppleScript code is not hidden. So, any keen scripters out there are welcome to improve, change and beautify MacYTDL. Just make sure to send me all the details.

Currently at version 1.2 and requires macOS 10.10. Download from here:

Download here


Cheers.

[BNW]

Originally Posted by pcspeak

Hi all!
(I just had to post something to wake the mail services of y'all)
Cheers

Resurrected eh? Lucky I still had the forum bookmarked.

[nguyenthanhtam9723]

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[BNW]

The spammers are back already ..

[GBDesk]

MacYTDL v1.4 is available

MacYTDL is a youtube-dl GUI front end for Apple Macs running macOS 10.10 or later. Written in AppleScript the code is not protected and can be opened in Script Editor.

More info: MacYTDL v1.4 @ VideoHelp

V1.4 changes:

• New option to check for youtube-dl updates on startup.
• New option to remux every download file and keep/discard original.
• Can download audio file only with remux format choices: arc, flac, mp3, m4a, opus, vorbis, wav.

Please, any feedback or suggestions, especially on missing options, would be a great help. Make a post on the thread or send a private message at VideoHelp or here at Stream-Recorder.

[GBDesk]

Version 1.5 of MacYTDL is now available.

Has new options and functions.

Details are available at: MacYTDL @ VideoHelp Forums

[PaleWing]

ah, well, everything was going well til yesterday, when they changed the site completely & broke not just the downloader i was using, but the site is a horrible mess to navigate too
any ideas what can be done? i noticed video downloadhelper grabbed it, but the video came out all black & distorted (i assume deliberately)

[yagasill]

The files are encrypted look at the very last line from media info youtube cannot deal with this new setup !!!
General
Complete name : Back In Time For Dinner.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41/iso5/iso6)
File size : 581 MiB
Duration : 58 min 48 s
Overall bit rate : 1 382 kb/s

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : encv / avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 58 min 48 s
Bit rate : 1 372 kb/s
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.093
Stream size : 577 MiB (99%)
Writing library : x264 core 148 r2643 5c65704
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / vbv_maxrate=1404 / vbv_bufsize=3000 / crf_max=0.0 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Encryption : Encrypted

[GBDesk]

Looks like ytdl gurus might have a fix for the iView problem:

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/co...06.11...master

Code change done by the developer "remitamine". They also have a change for metadata.

That was quick !

[dman]

Hey all..

So, from what I can see ABC iView has finally dumped any and all requirement for flash, which is great, and are now using HTML5, they rolled out a new website and iOS apps, but the video is now encrypted!
I grabbed the latest build from ytdl and though I noticed a comment from @GBDesk about a recent commit done by one of the devs, has anyone been able to decrypt the video - I can use a couple of other downloading tools to grab the mp4 files, but if it's encrypted, its useless. Any suggestions please or are we in waiting mode for ytdl to release a new build? Thanks in advance.