ABC iView (Australia only)

I have a plugin for ABC TV (Australia).
This is version 0.1
It does not respect prefered video quality - because I think all iView video is the same quality - but I could be wrong.
It parses feeds like

http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/recent.xml
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/cat ... school.xml
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/last-chance.xml
http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/category/docs.xml

I have tested it for 3 days or so now and it would appear to work as expected.

Enjoy. Feedback welcome.

Great job !

Can't wait to see a SBS plugin

The plugin is broken if your ISP has unmetered access to iView. I am working on a fix. Stay tuned.

Great job !

Can't wait to see a SBS plugin

Here it is !

Hi ttguy,

First up, thanks for your great work so far! Have you made any progress on access via ISPs offering unmetered access to iView? My ISP has unmetered access, and I haven't been able to get the plugin working, so I assume this is the reason, although it could be my unfamiliarity with the Serviio plugin system. I'd be happy to help debug the problem if you need someone with unmetered access to test.

Thanks!

I am not doing anymore development on this pluging at the moment.

And here is why. It is an interesting story.

In December 2012 my access to iView via the web interface and via the standard X-box interface stopped working. Symptoms on the iView web application was that the loading of any video would stall at 52%

Also the rss feed pages like http://tviview.abc.net.au/iview/rss/cat ... school.xml returned 403 Forbidden

Investigating further I found I could browse to rss feed pages via https://morphium.info anonymising proxy
Browsing from my phone via 3G also worked.

This led me to the conclusion that ABC had actually blocked my IP address.

I contacted the ABC over this issue but never heard anything back. But after 2 months of me not running the iView pluggin my iView access was back.

So the moral of this story for me was - don't use the iView plugin if you don't want ABC blocking your IP address. (This conclusion is only based on circumstansial evidence. ABC never confirmed that they did block the address.)

It is quite likely that the ABC could detect the activity of the plug in as being unusual becasue it is quite regularly accessing every video on iView (the metadata of them at least). It would generate logs with highly unusual activity I would suspect.

So I am discontinuing development of this.