How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by kharisma

I put the code into terminal again,
restarted Firefox,
went to abc.net.au -
the little icon appears.
Clicked on "Watch Program" -
it went to full-screen and started playing the video.

Just to confirm, you're not on OSX 10.5, but OSX 10.6+ yeah?

[kharisma]

OSX 10.6.4 Snow Leopard

ISP is TPG

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by kharisma

OSX 10.6.4 Snow Leopard

ISP is TPG

Unfortunately my version of rtmpdump (which is the downloader within iViewFox) is only compiled to run under OSX 10.6.

[kharisma]

@Yansky

Any chance you'll be upgrading it soon?

[gxdata]

(rtmpdump usage question)

I have this stream URL (from StreamTransport, which can download it OK, but in its full playing time of course) -

rtmp://pub-fz.cdn.iinet.net.au/public//mp4:waso/waso/waso-rib-ep001-hq.mp4

I am using rtmpdump with -r URL -o filename.mp4 but get this error -

RTMPDump v2.2d (r463)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
ERROR: RTMP_Connect0, failed to connect socket. 10061 (Unknown error)

OR

RTMPDump v2.2d (r463)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
ERROR: rtmp server sent error
ERROR: rtmp server requested close

Can someone tell me what is this indicating?

[Edit]
eliminated the problem due to having a 0-byte output file, due to earlier failed attempts. Now, my simple test batch file deletes the output file.

[ollie grieve]

I have been using IviewFox successfully for some time. I upgraded successfully to the new 3 November version, but it stopped working on 12 November. Like kharisma, I stopped getting the save box and the program continued to download and play. Thing is I am also with TPG. I have also tried to run IviewFox on my old lap top where I have successfully run the application before, but with the same (non) outcome.

Could it be that TPG has blocked the application form working?

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by ollie grieve

Like kharisma, I stopped getting the save box and the program continued to download and play.

RTMPdump actually starts after the save dialog has opened - not before. It's not RTMPdump that makes the save dialog appear. If you're not getting the save dialog then something else is blocking it before RTMPdump gets a chance to begin

Could it be that TPG has blocked the application form working?

No. RTMPdump does not identify itself in any way that TPG could know that you were using it. If you can play the video directly from the ABC iView site then RTMPdump should work.

What OS are you using? Also, what version of Firefox?

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by ollie grieve

I have been using IviewFox successfully for some time. I upgraded successfully to the new 3 November version, but it stopped working on 12 November. Like kharisma, I stopped getting the save box and the program continued to download and play. Thing is I am also with TPG. I have also tried to run IviewFox on my old lap top where I have successfully run the application before, but with the same (non) outcome.

Could it be that TPG has blocked the application form working?

A few people have reported this but I can't seem to replicate the issue. I don't think it's ISP specific as I'm with TPG too and it seems to work ok for me.

I asked another user who experienced this problem to post any error messages he received, but he said there were none: http://mycoffeelounge.net/forum-repl...26217&r=11#r11

Anywho, here is my code for the iViewFox extension FWIW: http://pastebin.com/JDx6dg5T - can you see any issues?

Also, I just noticed that a user posted some info in a review here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...90505/reviews/
Something about private browsing mode. Perhaps there's a setting that's getting messed up or summin.

P.S. - slightly off topic, but if anyone could test out my new version of this extension that'd be great.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/56803/
The new version is 0.2.4 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...6803/versions/

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by Yansky

Anywho, here is my code for the iViewFox extension FWIW: http://pastebin.com/JDx6dg5T - can you see any issues?

Nope. Seeing as they're not getting to the SAVE dialog, this seems to suggest that the checks on prefs.getBoolPref("enabled") aren't working - or they are but Firefox isn't passing the correct value back to you (damaged user profile?)

Also, I just noticed that a user posted some info in a review here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...90505/reviews/
Something about private browsing mode. Perhaps there's a setting that's getting messed up or summin.

In private browsing mode you do get a "new" user profile, don't you? This would suggest an issue with the user's profile. A test, I guess, would be to see if a new vanilla user's profile has the same issue as well. Other possibilities - other add-ons interfering?

[Anywho]

Yanksy...

Thinking some more about the iViewFox.prefs.getBoolPref("enabled") - if that wasn't working then they would get a "light" ABC icon not the "dark" ABC icon in the status bar wouldn't they? Perhaps a screencap of the status bar would help you to see if that is being picked up properly.