come anticipate the BBC's iPlayer with me

also wii browsing sucks doesn't it??

The volume goes up to eleven.

Is the Wii thing any better yet? I could set the whole thing up and find out, I guess, but I thought I'd ask before I bothered my arse doing any hard work.

The .exe on this page is interesting.

Indeed.

k, so i am trying to work out how to download the delicious mp3 stream of a beeb radio show (rather than the old rm stream), and have gotten as far as what info the xml feed gives me:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/mtis/stream/b00d25wg

and now i am stumped. WHAT NOW ILX? i feel like i'm close.

(ironically i also couldve just left the stream on, pressed record and had a cuppa in the time i've spent googling this bitch.)

You're actually a long way off - the XML file you linked to specifies a .ram file that links to an .ra file but the actual URL for this .ra file is obfuscated by a RealAudio media server so you can't download the MP3 straight from it, the media server only allows the file to be streamed through an application like RealPlayer or iPlayer.

(ironically i also couldve just left the stream on, pressed record and had a cuppa in the time i've spent googling this bitch.)

Yes...

i know that; i've been d/ling the ram streams for yonks already if i hadnt made myself clear. it was my understanding though that the beeb now does an mp3 stream via flash INSTEAD of the ram stream (which is still being run concurrently for whatever reason). or maybe it doesnt, yet, though it does seem to sound better. does that mediaselector link refer to two streams or one?

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/2008/07/bbc_on-demand_streams_higher_quality.php

there are obviously two links in that xml file you linked to but the first, the mp3:Secure isn't going to be playable in anything but iplayer as it's encrypted. looks like it's using akamai for hosting as well.

iplayer is nothing but trouble for me, i kept getting 'not available in your region' errors at the weekend despite living a mile from bbc tv centre. the little snippets of radio4 breakfast show etc never play.

http://linuxcentre.net/?page_id=6 (lol, perl)

"About get_iplayer

This tool allows you to download or stream any iplayer programme from the BBC in H.264 (Quicktime/mp4) format, any radio programmes in RealAudio format (which is then converted to wav or mp3) and all podcasts in mp3/aac format."

BBC One and BBC Two to be streamed live.

I know there's Zattoo already but the quality's a bit dicy.

i didn't know about Zattoo :(

You fool!

The iplayer volume goes up to 11!

Yep.

iplayer download manager for osx/linux is now in beta. You have to sign up as a labs tester and then get the download manager from here.

And in other news, zattoo's streaming channels 1-4 in broadcast quality until the middle of january. Hurray!

It appears you can replay BBC1s New Year countdown coverage on the iPlayer, which surely can be of no conceivable use to anyone at all?

It might be useful to people who have a thing for Matt Baker, and, you know, watch some fireworks while they listen to Matt Baker chattering away about the "rhythm being created entirely by the fireworks", that's if you could hear it over the noise of Matt Baker yammering away.

BBC1 coverage was a horrorshow. It's difficult to imagine who would be pleased by it.

Can anyone report back on Jools Holland shiftiness levels from last night?

lily allen was outsung by the ting tings

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only

boooo!

Anyone know how to get around that (UK only)?

you could try sending a check for 135 pounds to the uk tv licensing agency

A UK based VPN tunnel or a UK based proxy. VPN is probably easiest, you just need a mate with a decent upload to create the endpoint.

I don't see why they couldn't arrange something like that.

135 a year, less if your computer is black and white :)

Well yes, I could just pay for it. I'm prepared to pay it here in UK now, so why shouldn't I pay it over in DC next year if I like UK TV so very much...
But will also ask my savvy programmer brother about VPN.

have just noticed the --type itv flag for get_iplayer which gives you access to all their "itv-catch-up" shows. which includes 11 episodes of Press Gang, 17 episodes of Joe 90, all the gerry anderson stuff from itv4, the prisoner x 13, catweazle(!), metal mickey...

they are all 320x240 asf files, which is less than good, but ok for watching on the tube

ipad version will be out on thursday

US version in the summer

hmm i assume that would be developed in conjunction with Worldwide and be a paid app - first step towards PPV BBC content outside the UK i guess?

new TV version of iPlayer out today. a big step up i think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/08/bbc_iplayer_connected_tv.html

i might just be a weirdo but i have a ps3 and never watch iplayer on my telly. always on the computer.

heh yes i think that is a bit weird!

Sunday Morning Live is the weirdest show on TV:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013yypb/Sunday_Morning_Live_Series_2_Episode_9/

"John Bird, Andrew Stone, Jon Gaunt and Julie Bindel debate: Should we get rid of the human rights act? Should women stay at home and look after the kids?"

What's not to like?

This is great

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlister

The new BBC Playlister music player - rumours abound

haha sorry- I keep doing that!

iplayer (radio version) seems to have moved to using radioplayer thing.

looks superficially similar but

a) doesn't remember volume settings and defaults to LOUDEST whereas i normally listen on 2/10
(except radio 3 which isn't run through the optimod so is much quieter than the others)

b) doesn't remember position in show so i have to write it down if i'm splitting listening between days

c) (minor) no choice of hi / lo quality stream - sometimes when the live stream died you could switch quality and it'd come back.

bbc has apparently cracked down on vpn / dns shenanigans for ppl outside the uk watching iplayer. anyone know of something that works?

tryna watch that bake off too huh

I use Private Internet Access, iPlayer seems to work if I choose a UK-based server.

I believe VPNs are harder to block than the DNS changing sites.

thanks milo i'll take a look

i'm using unlocator and chose uk-2

works like a charm

odd, unlocator is what recently stopped working for me.

My Private Network working for me

trying to watch the winter olympics on iPlayer is immensely frustrating. How could they have cocked this up so badly? Why not make little groups of videos for each sport? Instead we've got these massive 3.5 hour chunks of coverage to scrub through, the descriptions will reference a few sports covered, but aren't exhaustive, and the titles of the chunks all begin with "Winter Olympics 2018 - Day 8 - ..." so on a phone you can't tell the difference between any of them because the title gets truncated. From what I understand it's all been handled by BBC Sport which is an online-first proposition, so I'm confused how they could have made such a hash of this.