How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[defecation]

Hi thanks it seems to be working now. Changed the script

Running with

rtmpdump --resume -r rtmp://203.18.195.10 -a ondemand?auth=12D9C4213D69EC344B0E -y mp4:torchwood_10_02_04 -W http://www.abc.net.au/iview/images/iview.jpg -o /home/twentytwo/Desktop/iview/torchwood_10_02_04.mp4

As opposed to what it used to be

rtmpdump --resume -r rtmp://203.18.195.10/ondemand?auth=ABBFFF57E1C98B3FBD26 -y mp4:torchwood_10_02_04 -o /home/twentytwo/Desktop/iview/torchwood_10_02_04.mp4 -w 96cc76f1d5385fb5cda6e2ce5c73323a399043d0bb6c687edd807e5c73c42b37 -x 2122

Also changed Akamai

"$CURDIR"/"$FLVSTREAMER" --resume -r rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net///flash/playback/_definst_/$SHOWPATH -a ondemand?auth=$TOKEN -W http://www.abc.net.au/iview/images/iview.jpg -o "$CURDIR"/"$FILENAME"

note one less forward slash in
rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net///flash/ as opposed to rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net////flash/
I don't know if this affects anything all my downloads are on Hostworks

Running rtmpdump 2.3 btw.
Thanks again

[gxdata]

Monday 10am onwards - we can play a few things on iView, but downloaders all fail with anything that I try to download (even The Owl !) - either 0 bytes and rtmpdump ends, or even causes iViewNapper to crash (immediate exit, with no warnings).
Is the iVN debugger output any use to see what's happening here?

[servalan]

They must be mucking about again...

I've had a few downloads fail (files not found on server - even though the RSS feed says they are available & play fine in iView itself) & 2 work - nothing on the iView forums suggest anything other than normal brokenness. (edit: play fine through iview most of the time - just had this one fail on me from iview as well - I'll leave it 24 hours & see what happens)

e.g.

Downloading "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4" ...
and saving the stream with the filename "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4.mp4"

Downloading from Hostworks server...

Retrieving Token...
RTMPDump v2.2b (r426)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
WARNING: Trying different position for server digest!
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
mp4:memoirssherlock_10_04_04 path not found. Retrying a different path...

Retrieving Token...
Resuming previous download for "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4"...
RTMPDump v2.2b (r426)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
memoirssherlock_10_04_04 path not found. Retrying a different path...

Retrieving Token...
Resuming previous download for "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4"...
RTMPDump v2.2b (r426)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
memoirssherlock_10_04_04.mp4 path not found. Retrying a different path...


The show "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4" was not found on the server.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by servalan

They must be mucking about again...

The show "The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes Series 4 Episode 4" was not found on the server.[/code]

Here ya... I've fixed it for you by replying to your post

[servalan]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Here ya... I've fixed it for you by replying to your post

Yup - working again now.

I think just the as normal intermittent iView reception... if something doesn't work try again in a few hours...

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by servalan

Yup - working again now.

I think just the as normal intermittent iView reception... if something doesn't work try again in a few hours...

2 days on, and they must be doing something drastic since batch DL and iVN both crash on startup (can't get the catalog).

Or, is this 'normal behaviour' when the catalog file is being updated or has been deleted from its usual location?

[servalan]

Originally Posted by gxdata

2 days on, and they must be doing something drastic since batch DL and iVN both crash on startup (can't get the catalog).

Yup - json_parser crashing here. iView via a browser works ok... so busted again for the scripts...

[darian]

I think SBS are also mucking about as neither batch or SBSnapper will obtain the catalogue. Perhaps they are working together to thwart the downloaders.

[mce]

I will have a look at the Nappers over the next few days.

The mongrels have timed it well, I just started annual leave for 2 weeks, so looks like fixing these will be one or two projects in that time.

[blood.eaglz]

From what I've gathered ABC has completed the switch over to the new api2, and changed the formatting of the json etc

the auth url is now

http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/auth/?v2

with handshaker now defunct with the action of the url changed to redirect to iview itself

and the new series index and series urls are

http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?seriesIndex
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?series=!insert series number here!

it appears that a new formatting method is now used here meaning it cannot be fixed by a simple url switch (I know I tried )

this is rather annoying, especially as iviewNapper still worked for me at 1:30 this morning...


oh by the way mce, since you have to fix them anyway, can you remove the focus lock on iviewNapper and SBSnapper, it is rather annoying that you cant minimise them other than using show desktop...(forgot about it since I last asked in April )

I'm afraid that's about all the help I'll be, anything beyond this is out of my knowledge range.