How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[blood.eaglz]

True, haven't used the pvr function too much though its nice to have standard mpeg-ts rather than some proprietary format or partition, its a pity that this functionality never seems to make it into their tvs though, the inbuilt pvr is a POS in them (including time-shift) and playback limited to Xvid/DivX. The funny thing is the box does roughly the same job as the big media players for a 1/3 the price, but doesn't really mention it in the manual so surprised the heck out of me when an mp4 played let alone an mkv

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by Anywho

They're friggin' nifty little things, aren't they?!? Great value for their price. Does timer recording too. Had mine for about 6 months now. Hasn't missed a beat.

Seems good. I was considering one of the WD devices because of the WiFi and DLNA, but it would just be nice to put a few videos / pics onto a USB stick or drive and be able to play them on many of the older TVs.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Seems good. I was considering one of the WD devices because of the WiFi and DLNA, but it would just be nice to put a few videos / pics onto a USB stick or drive and be able to play them on many of the older TVs.

If you're going to use "old" equipment, then these are great value for the price. They've got Composite, Component, and HDMI outputs so you're well covered there. I use the HDMI on a Samsung S27B350H LED monitor, but have fed it into Composite and Component TV's with great results.

I haven't tried Text Captions on stuff recorded via the PVR function (posts on WP say it's broken), but if you're interested I'll record something and see what the ins and outs are if you like (PM me)

[mce]

Version 20130301 is available on the website.

• Fix for missing episode image URL.

[servalan]

The last week or so I've been seeing:

------- YOUR CONNECTION INFORMATION -------
Internet Service Provider - Internode
ABC iView Server - Hostworks
Download Type - *** METERED ***
-------------------------------------------

It always came up as UNMETERED before. The IP address content is coming from is: 203.18.195.10 - which is on the Node unmetered list: 203.18.195.0/24

So what is happening with the script? Running: iView_Downloader_v15.85.bat

Thanks!

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by servalan

The last week or so I've been seeing:

------- YOUR CONNECTION INFORMATION -------
Internet Service Provider - Internode
ABC iView Server - Hostworks
Download Type - *** METERED ***
-------------------------------------------

It always came up as UNMETERED before. The IP address content is coming from is: 203.18.195.10 - which is on the Node unmetered list: 203.18.195.0/24

So what is happening with the script? Running: iView_Downloader_v15.85.bat

Thanks!

Hi servalan.

Looks like they've changed the config file a bit and the parser in the batch file is getting confused. It still is "free"... You can check for yourself by going to:

hxxp://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/auth/?v2

You can view the source code for that page in your browser, or just look at the end of the line in your browser when you use the above link... It should say "]]> yes" meaning "unmetered".

Thank you for the bug report... I haven't downloaded from iView in a while now. I'll do a fix sometime on the weekend (hopefully).

[Anywho]

Just an update to the above post...

If you want to fix it yourself, just open the iView_Downloader_v15.85.bat file in a plain text editor such as Notepad (NOT Word or WordPad!) and change line 55 from:

if "!AUTHLN!" == "9"

to:

if "!AUTHLN!" == "10"

and save the newly modified file as iView_Downloader_v15.86.bat and use that.

edit: New links to fixed files are in the Wikia (see first post on the first page of this thread for links to Wikia)

[servalan]

Thanks for the speedy reply - patch applied & working as expected now.

[blood.eaglz]

Originally Posted by mce

Version 20130301 is available on the website.

• Fix for missing episode image URL.

Thanks for also doing the file name fix, no more renaming files or ridiculously long file names

Now if ABC could start using proper mp4 containers we'd be set

[owlbrudder]

Linux Iview downloader, anyone? I tried downloading Python-Iview, but the host domain seems to have gone away:

$ ping dev.sunriseroad.net
ping: unknown host dev.sunriseroad.net