How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[vipher]

Originally Posted by Aeolus

Hi Vipher. Thanks again for your update.
This was the output from the runme_first file when I tried to execute it. I tried to manually change permissions for all of the individual files within the folder, but with no joy.

Thanks again for working on this.

Aeolus

Ok so I had a go on one of the Mac's at uni and I got the same error as you did when I just double clicked on runme_first. I'm not really sure how to fix it. I tried changing the file to something like:
chmod 755 ./rtmpdump_universal

but that didn't work either. However if I opened a terminal, changed to the directory the files were in and ran it from there it worked just fine. The script didn't seem to give me any errors when running however I wasn't able to test it very well since it doesn't seem to be able to access the internet (probably requires proxy settings). I hope that helps you.

[mce]

Some news that you guys should be aware of.

Brothersoft today sent me an email, that they have included iViewNapper on their site.

This draws unwanted attention and I have emailed them back stating that I didn't give them permission to put up the details of iViewNapper and asked for it to be removed, but I am not expecting this to be done.

So I am changing the website link as from now and the new link will be updated in the wiki, so any bookmarked links will fail.

As I say, the attention is unwanted and I've told them as much.

[Aeolus]

Originally Posted by vipher

Ok so I had a go on one of the Mac's at uni and I got the same error as you did when I just double clicked on runme_first. I'm not really sure how to fix it. I tried changing the file to something like:
chmod 755 ./rtmpdump_universal

but that didn't work either. However if I opened a terminal, changed to the directory the files were in and ran it from there it worked just fine. The script didn't seem to give me any errors when running however I wasn't able to test it very well since it doesn't seem to be able to access the internet (probably requires proxy settings). I hope that helps you.

Thanks again Vipher

I ran the following command lines from Terminal after changing the directory as you suggested :

cd iView_Downloader_OSX_V6
##... then proceeded to manually perform the chmod as written in the runme_first script as...
chmod 755 rtmpdump_universal
chmod 755 flvstreamer_universal
chmod 755 ffmpeg
chmod 755 iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command
##... all good so far

I then pasted in the iView_Downloader_OSX_V6 script directly into terminal after copying the script from :
cat iView_Downloader_OSX_V6

## ... looks good with the menu options appearing as :
Please Select an Option
1. Add another show to the download list
2. View the download list
3. Clear the download list
4. Download the list (Always attempts to retry)
5. Convert all files in download list
6. Exit

## however, when I selected option "1." followed by option "A." the following error messages came up...
rm: /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
Downloading Index...
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
Reading Index...
cat: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/series.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/series.txt: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/temp.txt: No such file or directory
mv: rename /temp/temp.txt to /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
-bash: /temp/filtered_shows.txt: No such file or directory
cat: /temp/filtered_shows.txt: No such file or directory
Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all,
0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list:

Thanks again for your help so far

Aeolus


Aeolus

[vipher]

Originally Posted by Aeolus

## however, when I selected option "1." followed by option "A." the following error messages came up...
rm: /temp/possibleshows.txt: No such file or directory
Downloading Index...
-bash: /temp/index.xml: No such file or directory

<Removed similar error messages>

Looks better. At this point you can probably run it by double clicking on the script, or changing to the directory and running:
> ./iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command

If it still gives error messages then there is a likely culprit. I remember this being a problem a while ago for some people. It's around line 25, the line:
TEMPDIR="$CURDIR"/temp

can be changed to:
TEMPDIR=$CURDIR

It makes things a bit messier (puts all the temp files in the current directory) but it seemed to make it work.
EDIT: Removed quotes on script change

[Aeolus]

Originally Posted by vipher

Looks better. At this point you can probably run it by double clicking on the script, or changing to the directory and running:
> ./iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command

If it still gives error messages then there is a likely culprit. I remember this being a problem a while ago for some people. It's around line 25, the line:
TEMPDIR="$CURDIR"/temp

can be changed to:
TEMPDIR=$CURDIR

It makes things a bit messier (puts all the temp files in the current directory) but it seemed to make it work.
EDIT: Removed quotes on script change

Much obliged Vipher!

It seems that double clicking on the "iView_Downloader_OSX_6.8.command" script after it got "stuck" after directly entering the script into terminal seems to have done the trick regarding accessing the file "possibleshows.txt" for whatever reason without needing to modify the TEMPDIR vector.

Broadband is now seeing iView downloading action....



Aeolus

[marinam]

Originally Posted by mce

Can I get some feedback on how the Nappers (with the recent changes) are going on Akamai servers?

Hi MCE

Akamai seems to be all A OK so far.

I have only recently discovered the forum change (after WP closed the threads ) . Thanks very much to yourself, Anywho and the other coders for continuing this work, it is very much appreciated.

Best regards
Marina M

[gxdata]

I'm using iViewNapper vLatest, and just noticed 0-byte .SRT files.

I'm not sure if the episodes really do have sub-titles, so I will try getting the SRT files for these with the iViewBatch which Anywho modified for SRT files only, and report back.

[edit]
With the batch downloader v15.80, I downloaded a couple of things that normally have a .SRT (eg, Foreign Correspondent) but no .SRT file was created.
Since the iVN has created both 0-byte and non-zero .SRT files over the last 2 days in my downloads, I'm thinking it's the way the 2 programs handle the CC-file creation.
Does iVN look at the 'Captions' flag and decide to create a file, even though ABC haven't yet got the .SRT file and put it in place? (I'm guessing)
For Evening News 20-10-10, the iView Player shows that captions are available, the letters 'CC' comes up on screen, but (in the 2 or 3 minutes I watched the stream) there isn't actually any real captioning.
Confused...

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

With the batch downloader v15.80, I downloaded a couple of things that normally have a .SRT (eg, Foreign Correspondent) but no .SRT file was created.

Foreign Correspondent 19/10/10 doesn't have captions by the looks. There is a caption file, but it contains nothing (of use). See here. 12/10/10 does have a captions file.

For Evening News 20-10-10, the iView Player shows that captions are available, the letters 'CC' comes up on screen, but (in the 2 or 3 minutes I watched the stream) there isn't actually any real captioning.
Confused...

Does 20/10/10 even exist yet? At the time I went to the iView site, the Evening News for 20/10/10 was not there (7:58PM CDST). There is a captions file for 19/10/10 - see here.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Foreign Correspondent 19/10/10 doesn't have captions by the looks. There is a caption file, but it contains nothing (of use). See here. 12/10/10 does have a captions file.


Does 20/10/10 even exist yet? At the time I went to the iView site, the Evening News for 20/10/10 was not there (7:58PM CDST). There is a captions file for 19/10/10 - see here.

Sorry, I should have written Midday Report for 20/10

Am I right in thinking the batch DL doesn't save 0-byte .SRT files, the iVN does?

Thx for the links to the xml files - that makes it clear to me.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Am I right in thinking the batch DL doesn't save 0-byte .SRT files, the iVN does?

I'm not sure about iVN, but iVD does a conversion from .XML to .SRT using a program (xml2srt). If there's no input file, then there's no output file to create and therefore no 0-byte file. A 0-byte file can be created if the .XML file exists and it contains at least one usable (format-wise) line - even if that line is empty.

Thx for the links to the xml files - that makes it clear to me.

No probs. You're welcome

[edit: I'll have a look at the Midday Report when I get back home (if I'm in time)]