How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[mce]

Originally Posted by caleula

iViewNapper says "Fetching Episode" quickly when I try to download, however, the menu then disappears and the download doesn't commence.

Running out of ideas. 7mateNapper and SBSNapper both work fine.

Also, anybody know of a way to save downloads to another drive/directory?

I've sent you a link to the download site with the latest version on it (20101103) and you seem to be running an older version (20101014).

Please upgrade to the latest version.

At the moment iVN downloads to the programs own directory.

[caleula]

Originally Posted by mce

I've sent you a link to the download site with the latest version on it (20101103) and you seem to be running an older version (20101014).

Please upgrade to the latest version.

At the moment iVN downloads to the programs own directory.

Many thanks. I was thinking 4 came after 3 for the version numbers

The ability to save to another drive/directory would be VERY nice though. What do others think?

[blood.eaglz]

the version numbers are written in reverse date format ie YYYYMMDD so the version you were running (20101014) was built on 14th of October 2010, while the current version (20101103) was built on 3rd of November 2010.

[Wahroonga Farm]

Hi Guys,

A question on the iviewnapper mp4 format.

Apologies if this question is already covered.

The iViewnapper MP4 format does not appear to be widely recognised. VLC does it, but not much else.

My LG telly does MP4 just fine, but not the 'napper' version of MP4?

By way of contrast, the ABC direct download MP4 (which is available from the ABC for certain recent screenings), is far more compatible with a wide range of players ... including my LG telly ... on a usb stick.

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by Wahroonga Farm

The iViewnapper MP4 format does not appear to be widely recognised. VLC does it, but not much else.

The iview mp4 is actually F4V which means its mpeg4 contents wrapped in a flv to increase compatability you need to strip the flv and remux as a true mp4

I've included my solution to this which is a couple of bat files using ffmpeg (all of 3 must be in the same directory, with the mp4s) and another zip with a cmd program called recycle.exe which need to be put in the windows->System32 folder

the remux.bat converts whatever file you drop n' drop on it into an mp4 with directly copied streams ie no reencoding (also works with plus7 flv files as they are also F4V), while the feeder.bat will go through every .mp4 file in the folder and will run them through the remux.bat.

the recycle.exe is required to send the originals to the recycle bin rather than deleting them outright in case some thing goes wrong.

lastly I suggest you get mediainfo as it is a nice quick acid test on whether the remux was successful as if it does not show data for all segments (container, video and audio) then its a dud and need to restore the original and go from there.

Obviously this is a windows based solution, and will be little use to you if you're running a Apple or Linux machine.

EDIT: forgot to mention there is another windows solution somewhere in this thread, a VBscript that also uses ffmpeg, and automatically takes care of mentioned 'problems', (which I should clarify is a bit of junk data at the end of the files, I personally use frhed to fix this, but it is almost irrelevant now as problem files are becoming rarer.)

[gxdata]

Interview with ABC iView's Arul Baskaran, at Lifehacker.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?s=Arul+Baskaran

Avoiding the DRM issues. Flash will be used for some time yet; HTML5 maybe, still some time off; PS3 / XBox support not changing much; etc.

[gxdata]

Request to mce at next release of iViewNapper: to add a refresh function to the catalog / main list of series / index listing (? as displayed by the Catch Up button).
The iView staff seem to update the catalog frequently, which means that to "see" ['The Midday Report'] for example, I need to quit iViewNapper and restart it a few times during a day. It's hard to predict when a show will be mounted.
With the huge number of new shows on iView, this catalog updating is much more frequent at any time around the clock.

[Wahroonga Farm]

Originally Posted by blood.eaglz

...I've included my solution ...

Thanks very much. I'll give it a whirl.

Cheers

Edit ... And I did.

Thank you sooo much ... works perfectly.

'Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones' was tonight's very sweet treat.

[downloader]

iviewfox is not working. Is there an update due soon?

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by Wahroonga Farm

Thanks very much. ... works perfectly.

Glad to be of help.