How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[by-gum]

gxdata - also happened yesterday - when I first started on this journey. The index still downloads ok as of 15:57 AEST (475 entries)

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by by-gum

I am a newbie to this but I have some s/w development experience.

Can anyone help with iView_Downloader_OSX? I run v6.8 which fixes the problem of the ABC Index having moved, but I have also tried v6.7.3 (after updating the index bit) with the same result.

I run a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and took the precaution of building rtmpdump using Macports.

The error is shown below.
Is the fact that the host and token are blank/empty significant?

---------------------------------------------------------
Select a number to add a show to download list, 'a' adds all,
0 adds nothing, and 's' allows you to search this list:
377


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
4
Number of downloads 1
Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 1081 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s
Ok, you will be requesting deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.flv
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 911 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s
etc ...
--------------------------------------------------------

Note:
I am trying this because I can't get the iViewfox addon in Firefox to work - any ideas there?

On line 20 of the .command file change the params to:

SWFPARAMS='-w 96cc76f1d5385fb5cda6e2ce5c73323a399043d0bb6c687edd807e5c73c42b37 -x 2122 -V'

That will enable "Verbose command output".

More info: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/rtmpdump.1.html

I remember that I had problems getting rtmpdump working on pre 10.6 OSX systems because of issues with Open SSL. I would hazard a guess that that is causing the authentication/token issues.

[by-gum]

Thanks Yansky for your quick reply.

Number of downloads 1
Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 1002 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
DEBUG: Hostname : 203.18.195.10
DEBUG: Port : 1935
DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:deep_10_01_02
DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://203.18.195.10:1935/ondemand?auth=
DEBUG: swfUrl : (null)
DEBUG: pageUrl : (null)
DEBUG: app : ondemand?auth=
DEBUG: auth : (null)
DEBUG: subscribepath : (null)
DEBUG: flashVer : LNX 10,0,22,87
DEBUG: live : no
DEBUG: timeout : 120 sec
DEBUG: SWFSHA256:
96 CC 76 F1 D5 38 5F B5 CD A6 E2 CE 5C 73 32 3A 39 90 43 D0 BB 6C 68 7E DD 80 7E 5C 73 C4 2B 37
DEBUG: SWFSize : 2122
DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe.
DEBUG: Closing connection.

Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by by-gum

DEBUG: Failed to get last keyframe.
DEBUG: Closing connection.

Delete your old "deep_10_01_02.mp4" file and try again. It's likely to be 0 bytes in size. RTMPDump cannot resume a file that is 0 bytes in length (no info for it).

[by-gum]

Anywho - Thanks -tried it and the error report is different:
(failed to connect socket)
-----------------------------
Number of downloads 1
Ok, you will be requesting mp4:deep_10_01_02
and saving the stream with the filename deep_10_01_02.mp4
Retrieving Token...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 192 100 192 0 0 540 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
from ABC iView servers on
using the auth
Running Hostworks...
RTMPDump v2.2
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
DEBUG: Protocol : RTMP
DEBUG: Hostname : 203.18.195.10
DEBUG: Port : 1935
DEBUG: Playpath : mp4:deep_10_01_02
DEBUG: tcUrl : rtmp://203.18.195.10:1935/ondemand?auth=
DEBUG: swfUrl : (null)
DEBUG: pageUrl : (null)
DEBUG: app : ondemand?auth=
DEBUG: auth : (null)
DEBUG: subscribepath : (null)
DEBUG: flashVer : LNX 10,0,22,87
DEBUG: live : no
DEBUG: timeout : 120 sec
DEBUG: SWFSHA256:
96 CC 76 F1 D5 38 5F B5 CD A6 E2 CE 5C 73 32 3A 39 90 43 D0 BB 6C 68 7E DD 80 7E 5C 73 C4 2B 37
DEBUG: SWFSize : 2122
DEBUG: Setting buffer time to: 36000000ms
Connecting ...
ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 60 (Operation timed out)
DEBUG: Closing connection.

Error code 1
Sleeping for 5s
-------------------------------

[DaveTheMan]

Hi am new here and I am having some Problems with IViewFox.

1st When I download and says Complete where I put the File, There is No Video File to watch. Why does it do this

2nd Now I can't download anything with it as after the Dos Box gets Connected it just Exit's?

Please Help and I am using the most up to date Version

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by DaveTheMan

1st When I download and says Complete where I put the File, There is No Video File to watch. Why does it do this

This might happen if there is actually no video file on ABC's host server (Akamai or Hostworks) to download or view.

2nd Now I can't download anything with it as after the Dos Box gets Connected it just Exit's?

As above and make sure there is not a file that is zero bytes in length with the name of the video you are trying to download. If a zero-byte file is there, then delete it and try again.

[DaveTheMan]

Originally Posted by Anywho

This might happen if there is actually no video file on ABC's host server (Akamai or Hostworks) to download or view.



As above and make sure there is not a file that is zero bytes in length with the name of the video you are trying to download. If a zero-byte file is there, then delete it and try again.

There is a Video to Watch. There is no File in the Folder at all

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by DaveTheMan

There is a Video to Watch. There is no File in the Folder at all

Which version of iViewFox are you using... v1.2.6, v1.2.7, or v1.2.8?

Which version of FireFox?

What OS... Windows? (you did mention the DOS box opening)

What ISP are you with, or if you know, which server host is ABC using to deliver the video to you? It's usually Hostworks if un-metered from your ISP, otherwise it's likely to be Akamai.

Hopefully that'll give enough info for Yansky when he drops by this thread

[DaveTheMan]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Which version of iViewFox are you using... v1.2.6, v1.2.7, or v1.2.8?

Which version of FireFox?

What OS... Windows? (you did mention the DOS box opening)

What ISP are you with, or if you know, which server host is ABC using to deliver the video to you? It's usually Hostworks if un-metered from your ISP, otherwise it's likely to be Akamai.

Hopefully that'll give enough info for Yansky when he drops by this thread

1.2.8 for IView Fox

Firefox is 3.6.15

I am using Windows XP SP1 at the Moment but Tommorow I am Getting a new Computer so that can Change.

ISP is Netspace