How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[pokepal101]

Update to GetIView.

Download (v2.1 Alpha): http://9854b582.linkbucks.com
Alternate: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26746878/GetIView2.1.zip
(Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or higher)

Updated readme to include information about RTMPDump and it's author.

(Sorry about doubleposting, it was just to separate things)

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by pokepal101

Thanks for the points.

You're welcome

For number 1, I don't really know where to get a non-OpenSSL version

You can take the one out of the iView_Downloader v15.84 (command line version). It is relatively the latest one and uses PolarSSL which is much more relaxed in regards to licensing. The executable is in the "bin" directory and the (required/desired) RTMPdump documentation is in the "docs" directory.

You can find the link to the iView_Downloader (batch file version) in the Wikia link here... While you're at it, perhaps you'd like to update the Wikia page with the details to your program

[gxdata]

Any Mac / iPad people here who can advise?

I downloaded an episode of Play School using (Windows GUI downloader) iViewNapper, and the resulting MP4 file is about 5Mb.

Using a trial version of a video converter for iPad (Daniusoft iPad Video Converter), I set it to a profile "iPad Video H.264 (*.mp4)", and the result was a 22.4Mb file.

That seems a huge bloat in file size.

I assume it works on an iPad (yet to send it*). It plays well on VLC Media Player (Windows), apart from the watermark imposed because the converter is a trial.

The MediaInfo description is available, if this helps. I would prefer to be able to use ffmpeg to do the conversion (though the Danuisoft GUI application is very nice).

* The email account (Hotmail) that I sent it to bounced it, message: "552 #5.3.4 message size exceeds limit"

[gxdata]

Just had a look again at the categories.xml and classifications.xml files.

iView has added new "Genre" categories for its shows - Education, and Indigenous.

So far, there are only 2 series that fall in the category Education -
Backyard Science
Atoms Alive

In iViewNapper, you will see them under Catch Up but may miss them under other buttons that you might think they fall under (eg, docs / Documentary).

Originally Posted by gxdata

I downloaded an episode of Play School using (Windows GUI downloader) iViewNapper, and the resulting MP4 file is about 5Mb.

Try to change the container into MP4 without converting first:
FLV with H264 Codecs: Convert FLV to MP4 without re-encoding (remux FLV)

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

I downloaded an episode of Play School using (Windows GUI downloader) iViewNapper, and the resulting MP4 file is about 5Mb.

Using a trial version of a video converter for iPad (Daniusoft iPad Video Converter), I set it to a profile "iPad Video H.264 (*.mp4)", and the result was a 22.4Mb file.

That seems a huge bloat in file size.

How big did you say the original MP4 size was? 5MB??? Should have been around 130MB according to the iView site!?!

[Yansky]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Any Mac / iPad people here who can advise?

I downloaded an episode of Play School using (Windows GUI downloader) iViewNapper, and the resulting MP4 file is about 5Mb.

Using a trial version of a video converter for iPad (Daniusoft iPad Video Converter), I set it to a profile "iPad Video H.264 (*.mp4)", and the result was a 22.4Mb file.

That seems a huge bloat in file size.

I assume it works on an iPad (yet to send it*). It plays well on VLC Media Player (Windows), apart from the watermark imposed because the converter is a trial.

The MediaInfo description is available, if this helps. I would prefer to be able to use ffmpeg to do the conversion (though the Danuisoft GUI application is very nice).

* The email account (Hotmail) that I sent it to bounced it, message: "552 #5.3.4 message size exceeds limit"

I think you just need to unwrap the f4v container. Same as here: hxxp://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1342590&r=28916996#r28916996

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067588/flvu...0.3-fx-mac.xpi
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067588/flvu...fx-windows.xpi

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

How big did you say the original MP4 size was? 5MB??? Should have been around 130MB according to the iView site!?!

Sorry, I should have said that I cut a 5Mb chunk of Play School, before converting.

(Full episode size is 128,189,755 bytes, MD5 = B4C545876CE18B94212F08C0C5A22CBF in my download).

But the bloat is the same factor, if I convert the full file with that conversion utility.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Try to change the container into MP4 without converting first:
FLV with H264 Codecs: Convert FLV to MP4 without re-encoding (remux FLV)

Thanks, Stream Recorder. Will try that tomorrow before breakfast. Several utilities, 2 or 3 ways suggested.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Yansky

I think you just need to unwrap the f4v container. Same as here: hxxp://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1342590&r=28916996#r28916996

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067588/flvu...0.3-fx-mac.xpi
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2067588/flvu...fx-windows.xpi

Will also try that method, Yansky - tomorrow. I knew there would be several gurus here who would suggest 9 ways to skin the cat!