How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[randybull]

Yes working now, when will i learn to be patient(gasp)..Anywhos' black magic works again ...lol

[mycle]

Originally Posted by Yansky

Hi Mycle, you'll be pleased to know I recently got access to a mac running 10.5.8, so I'll have a go at compiling a version of rtmpdump that works on that system.

Stay tuned.

Awesome, thanks.

I really should get updated to 10.6 but there's so much else to be done...

Thanks
Mycle.

[aussiechris]

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edited 03/08/2010

After doing some investigation, it appears the version of RTMPdump included with the iView downloader script is only 1.6 not 2.x (with the required verification features) so the downloading issues I am experiencing are caused by this version of RTMPdump after all. that means that the method described below will not work.

I can't seem to find any binaries of RTMPdump v2.x for OSX 10.5 and it looks like people are having trouble compiling it under 10.5 for various reasons, but due mostly to dependencies on other libraries/packages. It looks like it might not be possible under 10.5 without some serious tinkering...

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Hey mycle, i have the same problem and found a little workaround (if you don't mind a little fiddling) to get iViewFox working on OSX 10.5

The ABC iView downloader script for OSX over at source forge has a version of RTMPdump that works with 10.5. If you do a quick google for "sourceforge ABC iView downloader OSX" you should find it.

Download and unpack it. Copy the rtmpdump_universal file in the package over to the iViewFox rtmpdump directory as described in the error message. In your case this appears to be:
/Users/mycle/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/113g9ho0.default/extensions/iViewFox@forboden.com/rtmpdump/
For other people the directory will be slightly different, but you should be able to figure it out.

Then all you have to do is backup the old file by renaming rtmpdump-OSX-Intel to rtmpdump-OSX-Intel.old and replace it with the new one by by renaming rtmpdump_universal to rtmpdump-OSX-Intel
If you are running on a PPC (not intel) swap rtmpdump-OSX-Intel for rtmpdump-OSX-PPC in the above step.

Bingo bango.

This gets me past the immediate [process completed] window and starts the download. Hopefully it will also work for you.

At this point i am getting a few failed downloads where RMTPdump drops out before reaching the end of the download, but I suspect that this is due to some other network issues I'm having at the moment and not RMTPdump itself. This exact build of RMTPdump was working with the downloader script last week until the invalid token errors started. sigh...

Let me know what sort of mileage you get....

[blood.eaglz]

hey is it just me or has resume suddenly started working again (rtmpdump-win32-2.2d)?

maybe the changes at iView are good for something after all.

[elfst0ne]

Hi guys,

Finally made an account. Just been lurking here since the WP thread was closed.

Anywho,

I made a json_parser that can be use to parse the series and episode JSON files and is not dependent with VS libraries.

It's output is the same but with the special characters cleaned already in order to minimize the cleaning in the batch file itself. Just execute the file to see the parameters needed.

Also, the output of the series has an extra field that denotes the available episodes for that series.

File can be downloaded here.

Cheers,
--elf

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by elfst0ne

Anywho,

I made a json_parser that can be use to parse the series and episode JSON files and is not dependent with VS libraries.

It's output is the same but with the special characters cleaned already in order to minimize the cleaning in the batch file itself. Just execute the file to see the parameters needed.

Also, the output of the series has an extra field that denotes the available episodes for that series.

File can be downloaded here.

Thank you, elfst0ne. Any chance of getting the source code? I feel uncomfortable not having the source code to modify - in case I/we "urgently" need to.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by blood.eaglz

hey is it just me or has resume suddenly started working again (rtmpdump-win32-2.2d)?

maybe the changes at iView are good for something after all.

TBH, I haven't done a lot of d/ling and when I have there hasn't been a need to resume.

It would make sense if ABC fixed it on their end because I don't think the Adobe client would "recover" either if they don't feed the correct parameters back to it. I seem to remember them having issues with streaming just stopping and not continuing.

So maybe they've fixed it - dunno. Their streaming is so flakey that they should be paying the public to watch it!

[qth37144]

Resume sucks for both iViewNapper_20100715 and iView_Downloader_v15.70 on Akmai. At home sitting on iPrimus get iView unmetered via Hostworks and have no problem with resume (or m.b. downloading simply wouldnot break), but at work having much faster speeds it is metered and Akmai only and download breaks and then resumes with filesize still growing but percentage starting from zero for new eventuating with
".... Stream does not start with requested frame, ignoring data ...." and ending with ".... Download may be incomplete (downloaded about 1.20%), try resuming Error in connection. Retrying... Press any key to continue . . . ...." and ".... Stream does not start with requested FLV frame, ignoring data... ....". using rtmpdump-win32-2.2d.
Hopefully makes sense and m.b. them fixing or you here contributing

[elfst0ne]

Originally Posted by Anywho

Thank you, elfst0ne. Any chance of getting the source code? I feel uncomfortable not having the source code to modify - in case I/we "urgently" need to.

Yep! You can get it from here.

Please copy the license.txt if you're going to distribute the source codes as this is a requirement by the Boost library (uses 1.42) and JSON Spirit. I've added one for the parser as well for indemnification. Also, I used CMake and MinGW for building.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by elfst0ne

Yep! You can get it from here.

Thanks buddy

Reminds me... I have to install my compiler stuff again (new rig - W7/64bit)... I'll get 'rountuit' eventually

Please copy the license.txt if you're going to distribute the source codes as this is a requirement by the Boost library (uses 1.42) and JSON Spirit. I've added one for the parser as well for indemnification.

Will do