How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[vipher]

Originally Posted by jameskinds

Can you please repost this somewhere else as localhostr.com seems to be down.

No problem, new link is on the wiki now.

[jameskinds]

Originally Posted by vipher

No problem, new link is on the wiki now.

Thank you!! That's fantastic!!

Much appreciated.

[blood.eaglz]

hey any chance of someone making a ten downloader (or if a working one already exists point it out to me), they migrated from roo to movideo, and now DownloadHelper gets bupkiss(ad video excepted)

[mce]

p7Napper has been updated to version 20101108.

Please check the p7Napper website.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mce

p7Napper has been updated to version 20101108.

Please check the p7Napper website.

Nice.
Pity 7 isn't quota-exempt like 2. There are a couple of OK programs there right now. Maybe I need to DL before 8am.

[gxdata]

Interesting that evening news for 07-11-2010 is still available. The date/time now is 02:12 on 10Nov2010, AEDT.

Testing with "iViewLater" and editing the download_list.xml just now shows that the show for 7Nov is there, but 6Nov is not.

The catalog for ABC National Evening News says that only the show ABC National Evening News 09-11-10 is available.

Implication: possibility of getting some stuff that is still there, but was removed from the catalog - at least for a day or so. Or, it's an oversight, a once-off.

[iviewthereforeiam]

I've downloaded the Firefox addon from Yansky and it seems to work fine, but I am wondering if the .mp4 files I download using that addon will be unmetered thru my ISP (iPrimus has unmetered iView downloads)

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by iviewthereforeiam

I've downloaded the Firefox addon from Yansky and it seems to work fine, but I am wondering if the .mp4 files I download using that addon will be unmetered thru my ISP (iPrimus has unmetered iView downloads)

yep, as the downloaders use the same 'path' as the site, it is indistinguishable to your ISP, and therefore it remains unmetered

[gxdata]

Further to #315, I found that there are 7 or 8 days of "The Midday Report" that don't / have never appeared on the menus, but are downloadable. (3Nov to 11Nov)

Not that I'm interested in these per se, but it shows that what's left in place on the server isn't reflected in the edited JSON files describing what's available to watch.
Obviously, iView maintenance is a very manual process.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by blood.eaglz

hey any chance of someone making a ten downloader (or if a working one already exists point it out to me), they migrated from roo to movideo, and now downloadhelper gets bupkiss(ad video excepted)

StreamTransport will capture (for example) the Junior Masterchef stuff, with a bit of manual attention - but it's no faster than watching, afaict. You end up with a pile of .FLV files, since they have one week's/night's competition chopped up and prefaced by a sponsor's advert. (6 segments, as you can see from the Ten webpage).

I've never explored Ten, but for these (like JM) it seems feasible to use rtmpdump in the way that AdamMW recommended (now defunct websites for SBS and for Ten). I suspect that Ten is inconsistent compared with iView or even SBS, and that a downloader like iViewNapper or iView Batch Downloader would work on 10% to 30% of the programs/pages they present. Hence, too much maintenance to be worthwhile. (my guess only)