How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by barywhite

Nope... iviewNapper throws an exception and the batchfile shows no episodes for that program.

The batchfile (v15.85) has stopped downloading in the last week or so for everything I've tried. RTMPDump looks like it's trying the wrong URL:

Downloading from Akamai server...

Retrieving Token...
RTMPDump v2.4 (110812)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
kids/youngdracula_01_07.mp4 path not found. Retrying a different path...

iViewNapper still works ok though (except for artscape... )

Is v15.85 the latest batch version? I can't find a later one. I really like being able to queue stuff with the batch file and leave it to do its thing.

Can someone else try this on Akamai for me please? I have Hostworks + v15.85 and don't have any problems with that one or others (except that dodgy Artscape one).

Also, you don't have a zero-byte file of the video you're trying to download in the same directory do you? If so, delete it and try again.

[Screencap: hxxp://i.imgur.com/jJ0Lh.png ]

[barywhite]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Can someone else try this on Akamai for me please? I have Hostworks + v15.85 and don't have any problems with that one or others (except that dodgy Artscape one).

Also, you don't have a zero-byte file of the video you're trying to download in the same directory do you? If so, delete it and try again.

[Screencap: hxxp://i.imgur.com/jJ0Lh.png ]

Thanks for the reply Anywho - it's started working again on v15.85... hurrah! There weren't any zero byte files.

Downloading "Gruen Planet Series 2 - Gruen Planet Series 2 Episode 9" ...
and saving the stream with the filename "Gruen Planet Series 2 - Gruen Planet Se
ries 2 Episode 9.mp4"

Downloading from Akamai server...

Retrieving Token...
RTMPDump v2.4 (110812)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
INFO: Metadata:
INFO:   duration              2155.41
INFO:   moovPosition          36.00
INFO:   width                 640.00
INFO:   height                360.00
INFO:   videocodecid          avc1
INFO:   audiocodecid          mp4a
INFO:   avcprofile            77.00
INFO:   avclevel              31.00
INFO:   aacaot                2.00
INFO:   videoframerate        25.00
INFO:   audiosamplerate       44100.00
INFO:   audiochannels         2.00
INFO: trackinfo:
INFO:   length                1293264.00
INFO:   timescale             600.00
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            avc1
INFO:   length                95053486.00
INFO:   timescale             44100.00
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   sampletype            mp4a
INFO:   length                600.00
INFO:   timescale             600.00
INFO: sampledescription:
INFO:   length                600.00
INFO:   timescale             600.00
INFO: sampledescription:
122310.712 kB / 1518.35 sec (70.4%)

[gxdata]

Urgently need some help / advice - I've run out of ideas
I can't get a download of "Artscape Episode 9 Bryan Ferry In Conversation With Virginia Trioli" - http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/27115
(due to expire in 3 days)
I have tried HiDownloader - each time, only 17m of the 27.5m; and Firefox with latest FlashGot has greyed-out FlashGot Media.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Urgently need some help / advice - I've run out of ideas
I can't get a download of "Artscape Episode 9 Bryan Ferry In Conversation With Virginia Trioli" - http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/27115
(due to expire in 3 days)
I have tried HiDownloader - each time, only 17m of the 27.5m; and Firefox with latest FlashGot has greyed-out FlashGot Media.

Try:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://cp44823.edgefcs.net/ondemand/flash/tv/streams/artsportal/artscape_11_06_09_hi.flv" -o TheVideoYouWanted.flv

[edit: Grabbed from here: http://www.abc.net.au/arts/video/tv_...autostart=true

Not very HiRes though ]

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Urgently need some help / advice - I've run out of ideas

StreamTransport works on it, albeit at watch'n'download pace.

[gxdata]

thx @Anywho - tried both, go it OK

[gxdata]

Another Artscape problem - OK on iView Player, can download once it's going using Stream Transport - but the downloaders can't find the Series.
Superficially at least, the URL seems to be OK in the downloaders vs what shows when using the iView Player.

Has anyone noticed other shows/series @ iView that won't download with iViewNapper, etc?

[mce]

Version 20121123.

• Fix for illegal characters in filename.

[gxdata]

The Play School series has a problem - index out of range (or similar).
Something wrong in the catalog file, I guess
(extracted from catalog file)
{"a":"3202772","b":"Play School","e":"pre-school recent last-chance","f":[{"a":"28712","f":"2012-11-29 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-06 10:35:00"},{"a":"28742","f":"2012-11-28 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-05 10:35:00"},{"a":"28765","f":"2012-11-27 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-04 10:35:00"},{"a":"28790","f":"2012-11-26 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-03 10:35:00"},{"a":"27776","f":"2012-11-02 10:30:00","g":"2012-12-02 10:30:00"},{"a":"27796","f":"2012-11-01 10:30:00","g":"2012-12-01 10:30:00"},{"a":"27829","f":"2012-10-31 10:30:00","g":"2012-11-30 10:30:00"}]},

I can't see it, though.

Affects both iViewNapper and the Batch Downloader.

[edit]
I used the old series URL 11733 and can get a usable episode list that begins -

[{"a":"3202772","b":"Play School","c":"Join the playschool team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things, and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and all the other toys, on this all time favourite children's show.","e":"pre-school recent last-chance","t":"pre-school","d":"http:\/\/tviview.abc.net.au\/thumbs\/i\/playschooldayandnight.jpg","f":[{"a":"28689","b":"Play School Day And Night","d":"During the Day and Night series the presenters, Alex Papps, Jay Laga'aia, Rachael Coopes, Leah Vandenberg and Teo Gebert, explore the routines and patterns that children may participate in at different times of day and night.","e":"pre-school","f":"2012-11-30 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-07 10:35:00","j":"1473","i":"123","m":"G","n":"kids\/playschool_1112H010.mp4","s":"http:\/\/tviview.abc.net.au\/thumbs\/i\/playschooldayandnight.jpg"},{"a":"28712","b":"Play School Day And Night","d":"During the Day and Night series the presenters, Alex Papps, Jay Laga'aia, Rachael Coopes, Leah Vandenberg and Teo Gebert, explore the routines and patterns that children may participate in at different times of day and night.","e":"pre-school","f":"2012-11-29 10:35:00","g":"2012-12-06 10:35:00","j":"1523","i":"127","m":"G","n":"kids\/playschool_1112H009.mp4","s":"http:\/\/tviview.abc.net.au\/thumbs\/i\/playschooldayandnight.jpg"},
(more)

[mce]

Originally Posted by gxdata

The Play School series has a problem - index out of range (or similar).

I'll have a look into it.

The url ( http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/api2/?series=3202772 ) for the series comes back as an empty json object. ( ie: [] )