add ABC iView for australian viewers

ABC iView would be a fantastic addition to Boxee. Please introduce it!

Awesome, awesome idea.

This would be a wonderful addition (might even prompt an Aus VPN service *grin*)

This would be fantastic. I love boxee but I wish there was more australian content.

Any Boxee staff care to give an update?

I've been working on an XBMC plugin for iView.. although I had to make some minor modifications to the XBMC source. I've got information about how to decipher their XML and how to stream the video. Would love to help build a Boxee app for it.

Any news / progress on this?

YES YES! just got my apple tv running boxee, and this was the first idea that came to mind.

I'm no programmer in all of this, but this seems like the summary of what to do, please correct me if i'm wrong, thanks to Andy Botting (code from http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/..., all thanks to him)

XML for all of the channels:
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/iview_cha...
Contains image URLs and links to programs eg

Sample Program List for channel:
http://www.abc.net.au/playback/xml/in...
Contains synopsis etc

Get user to select, find associated flv file.

Grab Authentication token:
http://202.125.43.119/iview.asmx/isp

Stream flv using token (code sample to download flv, hopefully streaming would be similar)

rtmpdump-WIN32-1.5.exe -r rtmp://203.18.195.10:1935/ondemand?auth=%TOKEN% -a ondemand?auth=%TOKEN% -y %DLPATH% -u auth=%TOKEN% -t rtmp://cp53909.edgefcs.net/ondemand?auth=%TOKEN% -o "%FILENAME%"

Andy, have you got any feedback from boxee?

Australia would LOVE you if you got this up!

Cheers...

I haven't heard anything from boxee people, but I haven't been pushing it either.

I've had a few people express their interest in this, so it's probably about time we start looking at how we can get this into Boxee.

Do any of the Boxee dev's look at this? Would someone who knows the Boxee API be willing to lend a hand to get this done?

I think the real hurdle is that we need to specify the TCUrl in the RTMP stream, which (last time I checked) XBMC and Boxee don't let you do. I have a patch for XBMC, but the patch may have an impact on other streaming sites using RTMP.

This is a great idea stu0. Hopefully it is possible (Andy Botting, did you have any luck with your checking?)

Just start using boxee and this is one feature I truly love to have

Yep great idea, just ask for it myself.

My RTMP patch has been accepted into XBMC, so hopefully just a matter of time until Boxee picks it up.. then work on a plugin can begin.

For those interested on using iView on XBMC, see this page:
http://www.andybotting.com/wordpress/...

I've just recently started using Boxee and now can get unmetered ABC iView content through iiNet's freezone. It would really be great if this all worked through Boxee!

an ivew plugin would certainly make boxee a kick arse app for ozzie users...

Yes please !

iview on XBMC will be awesome, keep up the good work guys =)

This is a fantastic idea for all of us down under. Andy / Boxee devs, if there is anything we can do to help / make this happen, let us know.. Great work Andy!

Guys, seems we've hit a hurdle.

ABC has enabled 'SWF Verification' to the iView streams. This means that the iView plugin is dead for now. With SWF Verification, it means that clients need to send a 'hash' back to the server to keep the connection going. This hash is meant to be secret, and only Adobe is supposed to know how to do it.

Some clever people have reverse engineered the algorithm for generating this hash, and it was found in RTMPdump v1.6. You could use RTMPdump v1.6 for downloading and saving shows to your computer, but Adobe threatened the author with the nasty DMCA letter, basically killing the code.

This code *could* have been included in XBMC, but I'm guessing they won't want to, in fear of the Adobe monster and their DMCA letters.

So, sorry to all those wanting iView on XBMC and Boxee. ABC has killed this project.. for now, at least. :(

That is so dissapointing! I was really looking forward to being able to watch iView from my couch, on my Xbox! Damn fascism.

Andy, perhaps you could get the code from RMTPdumpv1.6 and implement it into an 'underground' 'iView Hacked XBMC' release? I mean, you're not going to let this stop all of ur hard work?

And i'm sure you've still got it working on ur xbox =)

If you (Andy) are referring to RTMPE, it's still in rtmpdump according to http://lkcl.net/rtmp/

Regardless, in my experience, the easiest solution that works for me is to just start downloading again with continue specified (-e), and if absolutely required (seems to sometimes), a skip of 1 (-k 1).