slightlymoving

08:34 18th Jun 2009

ABC iView

we often record shows from the ABC via a digital tuner onto hard drive for watching later. particularly the docos. sometimes though, the recording doesn’t happen because of a number of reasons…

iView has a ‘catch up’ section, which allows you to watch recent shows that have been screened via a streaming Flash based interface. i had thought of doing a screen capture of these, particularly as it’s unmetered content from my ISP, but that was such a pain to do.

fortunately some people have worked out how the ABC site authenticates the client IP and lists shows that are available to stream over iView. they’ve then gone and created scripts to make it easy for anyone to download these streams as .FLV files.

i love the internet.

the script (on a forum, lots of info about it all)
another version (for Mac OSX)

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