http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/2008/07/bbc_on-demand_streams_higher_quality.php
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://linuxcentre.net/?page_id=6 (lol, perl)
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't know about Zattoo :(
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
You fool!
― Alba, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The iplayer volume goes up to 11!
― chap, Friday, 28 November 2008 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 November 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― sktsh, Friday, 19 December 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― snoball, Thursday, 1 January 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
BBC1 coverage was a horrorshow. It's difficult to imagine who would be pleased by it.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Can anyone report back on Jools Holland shiftiness levels from last night?
― Neil S, Thursday, 1 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
lily allen was outsung by the ting tings
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 January 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only
boooo!
― Viceroy, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone know how to get around that (UK only)?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
you could try sending a check for 135 pounds to the uk tv licensing agency
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ipad version will be out on thursday
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
US version in the summer
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
i might just be a weirdo but i have a ps3 and never watch iplayer on my telly. always on the computer.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
heh yes i think that is a bit weird!
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 August 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Sunday Morning Live is the weirdest show on TV:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013yypb/Sunday_Morning_Live_Series_2_Episode_9/
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 21 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
"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?
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 21 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
This is great
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlister
― sktsh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
The new BBC Playlister music player - rumours abound
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
haha sorry- I keep doing that!
― sktsh, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
bbc has apparently cracked down on vpn / dns shenanigans for ppl outside the uk watching iplayer. anyone know of something that works?
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
tryna watch that bake off too huh
― adam, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 26 August 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
thanks milo i'll take a look
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 August 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
i'm using unlocator and chose uk-2
works like a charm
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 26 August 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
odd, unlocator is what recently stopped working for me.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 August 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
My Private Network working for me
― ljubljana, Friday, 26 August 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Agreed, you have to sift through a lot of curling to get to something with watching. It’s worse on AppleTV because scrubbing through shows is so painful.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
Olympics aside the search function is atrocious, it can’t find words within titles most of the time.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
Huh search works p well for me - maybe the Apple TV build is different somehow
They do have these 2-3 minute highlight clips of big moments but I want to see the whole event. And just that event, without other stuff sandwiched around it that I have to fight through. It's bizarre that you can't just dial up "Women's Super-G Final".
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 February 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/accountability/consultations/bbc-iplayer-public-interest
^ BBC wants to make all (most) programmes available for 12 months after broadcast, do more archive stuff, more box sets etc. If you want to participate in the consultation you can email publicinter✧✧✧.t✧✧✧@b✧✧.c✧.u✧
and answer these questions:
Question 1: What do you think about the potential public value of our proposals forenhanced availability of BBC content, including the extent to which our proposalscontribute to the BBC’s mission to serve all audiences through the provision of highquality and distinctive output and services which informs, educates and entertains?
Question 2: What do you think about the benefit to consumers who will use theservice, as well as wider potential social and cultural impacts?
Question 3: What impact (positive or negative) do you think our proposals onenhanced availability might have on fair and effective competition?
Question 4: Are there any steps you think we could take to minimise any potentialnegative effects on fair and effective competition or to promote potential positiveimpacts?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
ha whoops. well, the email link is in the above URL