How to use iView (ABC Australia) downloaders

[eegee]

I notice on WP, an iview user posted details of napper logs they sent to support because of problems they were having with their unmetered service. /facepalm

[mce]

Yeah, whilst not specifically blaming that user, overall it doesn't help.

[servalan]

Has anyone tried this code:
https://github.com/vadmium/python-iview/tree/hds

[mce]

I didn't as it was old code, but it looks to have some recent activity, so I've downloaded it and will check it out.

[gxdata]

Has anyone been able to download the show "Operation Babylift"?

It plays on iView Player. Downloaders, and HiDownload, Stream Transport fail to get it.

[gxdata]

I haven't used batch downloader (Windows) for a while, but the v15.85 and 15.86 (just installed) give error messages.

Downloading "Chuggington - Chuggington Puffer Pete's Big Show" ...
and saving the stream with the filename "Chuggington - Chuggington Puffer Pete's Big Show.mp4"

Downloading from AkamaiHDUnmetered server...

Retrieving Token...
RTMPDump v2.4 (110812)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[ort]/playpath") containing a playpath
'amp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Error in connection. Retrying...
Retrieving Token...
RTMPDump v2.4 (110812)
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
ERROR: You must specify a playpath (--playpath) or url (-r "rtmp://host[ort]/playpath") containing a playpath
'amp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Error in connection. Retrying...
Press any key to continue . . .

[gxdata]

The Business 7 August stops at ~3Mb (3%) - seems OK on iView Player (I viewed the first couple of minutes, then skipped ahead a few times).
I really want to see this one - has anyone managed to download all of it?

Examining it with FireFox and FlashGot, it has a manifest f4m file and a series of segments.

Strange that the next day's The Business (8 August) is still amenable with rtmpdump.

[gxdata]

This is possibly/probably irrelevant to downloaders using rtmpdump.exe - unless some parameters need tweaking. I haven't explored that.

There have been some changes to iView servers that send the video stream down to us - particularly for those with unmetered ISPs - see iView Message Board, here

According to that message, this will also affect devices and operating systems where the version of Adobe Flash Player (eg, installed into browser) is older.

For example, using PS3 devices to view iView shows through the Player website seems to cause the usually unmetered server to switch to a metered one.

I have discovered that for Windows, the latest Flash Player version is 11.8.800.94 (Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox).
See here for the latest version for Chrome and Linux (etc).

[mce]

Originally Posted by servalan

Has anyone tried this code:
https://github.com/vadmium/python-iview/tree/hds

This code branch seems to have been merged into the master branch.

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