On 22-Dec-08 08:59:52, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 16:20 +0000, Albert Vilella wrote:
As you may all know by now, we finally have a BBC iPlayer for Linux!
Whilst it is good to see the BBC finally supporting Linux users. For anyone that doesn't already know, we had to wait so long that an OSS alternative to the BBC download software exists that actually provides more functionality.
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
No GUI I am afraid but no DRM on the downloads either..plus it can pick up files past the download time limit, just a h.264 file you can watch when you feel like it. [...]
Brilliant! I just downloaded get_iplayer, installed libwww-perl as well, and then ran 'get-iplayer > iplayer.list' to see what was available.
After browsing the list, I decided to test it on "Welsh First Minister's Questions" (No 740), so then ran
get_iplayer --get 740
and after about 10 minutes download was able to watch
Welsh_First_Ministers_Questions_-_09_12_2008_b00g336f_default.mov
in the Gnome Movie Player (totem). (Closed it down after a few minutes, once I was satisfied with success and quality ... ).
Download was sublimely simple:
wget http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/get_iplayer chmod 755 get_iplayer
and then you're set. Good summary documentation at
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation
Thanks, Wayne! Ted.
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