www.sbs.com.au- Download RTMP video from Australian TV web-site

[mce]

A new version 20120205 is available on the website.

• Fix for illegal characters in output filename.
• Debug mode controlled by existance of 'sbsNapper.debug' in directory.
• Debug command line file now named after episode title.

[gxdata]

The maintainers of SBS Player are getting even more lax.

In the past few days, 5 separate shows have been entered in the index/catalog in both rtmp:// and http:// modes (separate entries, separate XML files).

Tonight, one movie - "The French Kissers" - has 1 x rtmp:// and 2 x http:// entries in the menu.

You can see this in SBSNapper. But you won't be able to tell which are http:// protocol.

(mce - it may be useful to tag those that appear as http:// protocol - or filter them out? They don't seem to be downloadable, anyway - not that I try to, any more).

[mce]

Originally Posted by gxdata

The maintainers of SBS Player are getting even more lax.

(mce - it may be useful to tag those that appear as http:// protocol - or filter them out? They don't seem to be downloadable, anyway - not that I try to, any more).

Yeah I'll look into it, it shouldn't be that hard.

[gxdata]

There are numerous "HTTP" shows now.

Stream Transport will capture them, from OnDemand website, but it is very slow to download a show that way, compared with using rtmpdump.exe

[gxdata]

Channel 94 Index/catalog is blank now @ 2012-02-22_1640 AEDST

~ 4hrs later, it has reappeared.

[mvdk]

Dear chaps,

I have made a python script that gets its stuff from sbs-on-demand instead of channel 94. It builds on others' work, notably adammw & others. It is available for windows at https://github.com/mvanderkolff/sbsOnDemand/downloads

You must install python 2.7 from python.org first, and put rtmpdump.exe in the same folder as the script.

Please feel free to offer any feedback; the script is more meant as a demonstrator for the library than anything. Please let me know if there are any bugs, any additional features, etc. Feel free to fork - I'm happy to merge stuff that others offer via a pull request.

Hoping that you have a pleasant evening,

Michael

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mvdk

Dear chaps,

I have made a python script that gets its stuff from sbs-on-demand instead of channel 94. It builds on others' work, notably adammw & others. It is available for windows at https://github.com/mvanderkolff/sbsOnDemand/downloads

You must install python 2.7 from python.org first, and put rtmpdump.exe in the same folder as the script.

Please feel free to offer any feedback; the script is more meant as a demonstrator for the library than anything. Please let me know if there are any bugs, any additional features, etc. Feel free to fork - I'm happy to merge stuff that others offer via a pull request.

Hoping that you have a pleasant evening,

Michael

mvdk
Thanks - it is working fine, within the limitations of the text menu display.

It would be nice to add resume into the rtmpdump command. Oh, did not check the py code any further, but the default bitrate for the download seems to be the max - 1500Kbps. I' already wanting the options in mce's SBSNapper - some shows are not worth the wasted bandwidth.

Mad Men Ep11 halts at 1.6% or so; auto-resume might help to get it all downloaded eventually.

(Incidentally, I never did see MM 11 and 12 at the SBS Player website.)

It seems the On Demand structure is successfully unpicked, from the few I have checked so far.

Last update of the SBS Player folder structures (Ch94, etc) seems to have been 3 days ago. Total shows loaded (incl the ?http ones with "D", "E", "M") has dropped from 126 to 96.

Do we regard it as officially abandoned, now - so SBSNapper and other downloaders will be redundant in a few days?


[Edit]
I will substitute rtmpdump v2.4 for Windows for the 2.2d version.

[mvdk]

Originally Posted by gxdata

mvdk
Thanks - it is working fine, within the limitations of the text menu display.

It would be nice to add resume into the rtmpdump command. Oh, did not check the py code any further, but the default bitrate for the download seems to be the max - 1500Kbps. I' already wanting the options in mce's SBSNapper - some shows are not worth the wasted bandwidth.

Reason I just grabbed the largest was because it was the easiest thing to do - it didn't involve checking for a bit rate. I suppose I could implement a "-1" option, meaning "allow me to set the preferred bit rate, please..."

I agree that the text interface is not friendly - I implemented a text interface because it was fast to do, provides a service quickly, and provides me with quick feedback.

Cheers,

Michael

[gxdata]

Originally Posted by mvdk

Reason I just grabbed the largest was because it was the easiest thing to do - it didn't involve checking for a bit rate. I suppose I could implement a "-1" option, meaning "allow me to set the preferred bit rate, please..."

I agree that the text interface is not friendly - I implemented a text interface because it was fast to do, provides a service quickly, and provides me with quick feedback.

Grateful that you implemented it.

I don't know the *nix commandline downloaders (SBS, iView) but the Windows batch downloader for iView has some nice features to guard against wrong entries (I keep forgetting to key in 0 = Go Back for your py script, and put in a Series number like 68 when the allowable values might be only 0,1,2).
Would you mind taking a look (not at the batch code, more its behaviour)? See the iView thread here, and the batch downloader by Anywho et al.

[mvdk]

Originally Posted by gxdata

Would you mind taking a look (not at the batch code, more its behaviour)? See the iView thread here, and the batch downloader by Anywho et al.

It's a 51 page thread, and the only entries I could find all had 4shared.com links that are dead . That said, it does allow you to select more than one item out of a category by saying, e.g. "48) Letters and Numbers" and then typing "15 16" to select both of them out of that list.

Would you prefer that it exits to the top-level menu after every set of successful downloads?

Cheers,

Michael

BTW: Latest version on github allows you to select bitrate.