How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[mce]

Originally Posted by gxdata

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)

No, iVN looks to see if an XML file exists for that program and attempts to decode it with my own XML-SRT conversion routine.

I'll look into detecting zero byte files, (no SRT data) and not writing them.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mce

No, iVN looks to see if an XML file exists for that program and attempts to decode it with my own XML-SRT conversion routine.

I'll look into detecting zero byte files, (no SRT data) and not writing them.

Of course it's not a problem to me, just a curiosity - but thanks.

[barywhite]

Originally Posted by 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.

Looks like they took it down.

http://www.brothersoft.com/iviewnapper-428109.html

[mce]

Yep, gone.

They emailed me to tell me that they've removed it so I thanked them.

I hope you guys understand that whoever submitted this to them did the wrong thing and why I wanted it removed.

Hopefully back to normal now.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

No probs. You're welcome

Anywho, could you make a GetSRT.bat for me again?

I have compared the v15.70/v15.80 "full" downloaders and the v15.70 "SRT" downloader, and I see substantial changes.

I'm OK with C# and VB.NET but your sophistication with batch scripting leaves me for dead - very impressive, but it's arcane (almost as boggling as trying to learn F# or any functional language).

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mce

Yep, gone.

They emailed me to tell me that they've removed it so I thanked them.

I hope you guys understand that whoever submitted this to them did the wrong thing and why I wanted it removed.

Hopefully back to normal now.

Yes, someone was a bit naive* - after the Whirlpool reaction. But no sensitivity about the SBSNapper thread?

* the forum editor can't handle a diaeresis (2dots over the i).

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Anywho, could you make a GetSRT.bat for me again?

Que?

I have compared the v15.70/v15.80 "full" downloaders and the v15.70 "SRT" downloader, and I see substantial changes.

Que?

I'm OK with C# and VB.NET but your sophistication with batch scripting leaves me for dead - very impressive, but it's arcane (almost as boggling as trying to learn F# or any functional language).

Que?

Here tiz

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Que?

Que?

Que?

Here tiz

Muchas gracias - eres muy amable!

[gxdata]

Off-topic, but yesterday I researched the download and capture of (Microsoft) Silverlight streams, and found on this board a couple of threads of interest.

In summary, I downloaded a beta application (.NET) that captures a Hungarian TV soapie (it's hard-coded into the app), which captured the thousands of fragments, then merged them into a MKV file that plays very well on WMP 12 and VLC (with Shark007 Codecs installed on my system).

Silverlight is used on (Australian) Channel 9 - FixPlay - and I was interested in the series The Day of The Triffids (classic sci-fi yarn).

The download speed was horrendously slow - 6 hours for a 43 minute episode. There are capture utilities that can get the Silverlight stream and save as WMV (or other formats) in just the running time, but I'm not sure if the slow download time was related to the server speed and my connection.

Silverlight will degrade the video served according to the conditions (providing the server end created the low-res chunks to stream), so capture may not have been a good option.

That is, if I had played the episode 'live' with or without capture, I may have got a poor-quality viewing (and saved video file) and it may have taken well over the 43 minutes running time, anyway.

I'll locate the FixPlay / Channel 9 thread and post this same info there, and also post some links here for those interested.

I just thought it might be of interest to the community.

[gxdata]

7.30 Report 25/10/10 - batch downloader to the rescue, by editing of the download_list.xml file

[7.30 Report 25/10/10][news/730report_101025.mp4]