I have recently been getting rather annoyed with the streaming problems with ABC’s iView. It started with intermittent cut outs, and then soon degraded to really bad lags and even audio and video getting out of sync, and playing at half or quarter speed. In a nutshell, it became unwatchable. I complained to the support of my ISP, iiNet, however they did not help – and maybe it isn’t entirely their fault either. Since streaming was broken, I thought why not buffer the entire program at a time instead, at least until iiNet and ABC fix their servers.

At first I used Yanksy’s iViewFox. However it ran incredibly slowly. So I decided to get Jeremy Visser’s python iView instead. The problem with that is that while python is theoretically cross platform, it is extremely hard to get working on a non-Linux, non-Mac box, and especially so when the application in question has multiple 3rd party dependencies. Judging from the comments on Jeremy’s blog, I think no one has managed to get it working on Windows yet, so I am posting a how-to for the benefit of those whose primary machine is a Windows box. Note that this requires your to install nine pieces of software in total to get working, and you need to edit environment variables, etc, so it can take a while.

Full instructions after the jump. Enjoy.

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