How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[cLoudBase]

I think my modem firewall may be the problem.
What TCP/ICP port does iNapper use ?

Cheers
Matt

[FoggyDays]

I discovered this thread after having problems with iViewFox today.

I've followed all the instructions with iViewNapper and am getting the same problem I did with iViewFox - any program over an hour or so stops at around the 70% mark. This is something that has happened off and on for ages now - it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

I just reset the modem and tried again with the same result.

PS Anyone know what's happened with iViewFox? It's no longer available and all links lead to an awful music video on YouTube.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by FoggyDays

I discovered this thread after having problems with iViewFox today.

I've followed all the instructions with iViewNapper and am getting the same problem I did with iViewFox - any program over an hour or so stops at around the 70% mark. This is something that has happened off and on for ages now - it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

I just reset the modem and tried again with the same result.

PS Anyone know what's happened with iViewFox? It's no longer available and all links lead to an awful music video on YouTube.

I have no knowledge of iViewFox (have not downloaded it).

But always helpful: exactly when you had the problem (iView servers are sometimes down / slow / erratic), who is your ISP, and what speed to you get (eg, using OzSpeedtest.com).

And, what's your current experience using the player at ABC iView (state what shows you tried).

[FoggyDays]

Originally Posted by gxdata

I have no knowledge of iViewFox (have not downloaded it).

But always helpful: exactly when you had the problem (iView servers are sometimes down / slow / erratic), who is your ISP, and what speed to you get (eg, using OzSpeedtest.com).

And, what's your current experience using the player at ABC iView (state what shows you tried).

Thanks for your reply.

After using iViewNapper for the first time, iViewFox seems to be very similar.

Today's download problem was between 0700&1030 AEST. I have found downloading any program longer than 1 hour has always been a hit & miss thing with RTMPDUMP.

I ended up watching the program (Wire in the Blood - 90mins) directly through iView with no hiccups.

"Your line speed is 7.96 Mbps (7964 kbps)"

ISP is Internode.

I've very rarely experienced any problem with iView. Only apparent ones indicated iView was down.

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by FoggyDays

Thanks for your reply.

After using iViewNapper for the first time, iViewFox seems to be very similar.

Today's download problem was between 0700&1030 AEST. I have found downloading any program longer than 1 hour has always been a hit & miss thing with RTMPDUMP.

I ended up watching the program (Wire in the Blood - 90mins) directly through iView with no hiccups.

"Your line speed is 7.96 Mbps (7964 kbps)"

ISP is Internode.

I've very rarely experienced any problem with iView. Only apparent ones indicated iView was down.

Your download rate is a little slow, but I don't think that is the problem.

Yes, it is frustrating to track down just where problems can be. My recent problem was with iiNet's BoB2 modem which handled rtmpdump downloads from elsewhere*, but gave incredibly poor experience when downloading from iView (though the ABC player seemed quite OK). I could change to another modem, and get 100% smooth and quick downloading with (say) iViewNapper.

Updating the firmware on the BoB2 modem completely fixed the problem.

* - SBS, Plus7, etc

[mce]

Looks like ABC are getting upset.

[getajob]

I cannot download using iViewFox 1.4.0 anymore.

Problems started manifesting themselves mid-afternoon with errors indicating connection problems but now downloads hang at the RTMPDump message:

RTMPDump 2.4 git-6230845 2011-9-25
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...

I have tried installing iViewNapper_20120514 but this hangs at the same point (although the RTMPDump version is 2.3).

Looks to me like the iView folks have blocked us...

Anyone have any ideas?

[getajob]

Posting that I was having a problem seemed to be enough to fix it!

Must have been a temporary hiccup lasting a few hours...

[garfunkel]

Hey guys,

In case anyone is interested. I have written an ABC iView app which is implemented as a FUSE driver. This means that if you are running Linux you can 'mount' iview so that it appears on your computer as just another drive/folder. You can browse for shows using your file browser and then click on a show to watch it through your favourite media player. You can also download a show if you want just by dragging and dropping the show you want into another folder. As far as your computer knows, iView is like a USB flash drive.

The program is here:

http://github.com/garfunkel/auntie

The program has very few dependencies. Just three, and if you running most modern desktop distributions they will be in your repositories. The dependenies are FUSE, jannson (json library) and libxml2 (xml library).

Note: To program this I mainly used LLVM Clang, but many of you are using GCC. The program compiles perfectly under GCC. You can do this by changing 'clang' to 'gcc' in the makefile. If you still have issues compiling the code it could be because you have an older version of your build utils than mine. That's OK too, just change the -std=c11 to -std=c99.

The program is implemented in C and uses librtmp and doesn't call rtmpdump so this should help to avoid several issues people have been having with these types of apps.

Have fun!

[HeatVision]

Originally Posted by garfunkel

In case anyone is interested. I have written an ABC iView app which is implemented as a FUSE driver. This means that if you are running Linux you can 'mount' iview so that it appears on your computer as just another drive/folder. You can browse for shows using your file browser and then click on a show to watch it through your favourite media player. You can also download a show if you want just by dragging and dropping the show you want into another folder. As far as your computer knows, iView is like a USB flash drive.

The program is here:

http://github.com/garfunkel/auntie

The program has very few dependencies. Just three, and if you running most modern desktop distributions they will be in your repositories. The dependenies are FUSE, jannson (json library) and libxml2 (xml library).

Hell yes I am interested, this sounds awesome.

Thanks garfunkel!