We’ve got some progress!
Foxtel Download Manager is now working with Windows 7 64-bit,you have to do things a bit differently however. I’ve attached a video to this post which explains how to get this working. You’ll need the .zip package from here in order to get it working (I’ve already virus checked it, however, I recommend you do the same before running anything as the files are coming from a third-party upload site.)
The zip file contains a few HTML documents used to generate the GreaseMonkey scripts for you. I did it this way for two reasons, the first being that you are not sending your information over the Internet in order to generate the GreaseMonkey scripts, and that there is no web-presence required (except for Foxtel, of course.) Feel free to look over the code if you are paranoid about it doing something it shouldn’t.
I recommend clicking the HD option and watching this video full screen.
Thanks for your post, very detailed, the video helped, and it worked.
On the Foxtel Download page, it only works when I click on the direct download link (the arrow pointing down off the index pages) – if I click on the “I” to get more info on the video, then download from there, it doesn’t work. Your greasemonkey script is possibly not detecting the click on that page.
Cheers for that, I’ll have a look into it. This is currently a very “beta” script, and there are a number of things which I want to change. I’ll release a new version sometime soon with a fix for this, as well as some new features
Mate, cheers for this. I had got mildly excited at the Foxtel Download service (despite the limitations on it), only to discover 64 was given the cold shoulder.
Awesome work, can’t wait to try it at home!
There’s a missing step from the video or foxtel have changed their installer. I 7zip extracted and when to install Foxtel.DC-4.1.500.11.exe. During installing after where it asks me where to install it, i click next, and i am prompted to enter my “UserId” and Password. I enter my details as per my online foxtel download registration and i get the following error:
“Fail to get dctoken from server: (myusername)
Error Code 520.
Error Message: User not found”
I have registered my foxtel online account and that’s how i downloaded this in the first place. The setup will not continue even with blank or correct details. What’s happening here?
You are right.
I’ve just downloaded the Foxtel installation package again and they’ve added a new step to authorize your account. Even my account fails to authenticate. I have a feeling the credentials is not your Foxtel account login.
I’ll have a play with this now and see what I can come up with. Interestingly, they haven’t even incremented the version numbers…
Alright, so far it looks like it posts the entered data to a server which is in a netblock owned by Entriq. It seems to be using HTTP rather than HTTPS and putting the entered credentials into a HTTP GET string, which isn’t very nice :/
I have a feeling it is a username and password “internal” to the FDM installer to prevent people from running this binary manually. I’ll have a futher poke around and see what I can come up with.
BTW, it’s also possible to run Windows XP in a virtual machine (Sun VirtualBox works nicely), and do all the Foxtel stuff from there.
But it’s a bit slower, uses up extra disk space & ram, and you need a Windows XP license.