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[chrome307]

Has anyone compiled this for any build of Puppy Linux?

INFO:

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

About get_iplayer

This tool allows you to search, index and record/stream:

BBC iPlayer TV - up to 3200 kbps HD 720p H.264 / Quicktime / MP4
BBC Live TV - 500 kbps H.264 / MP4
BBC iPlayer Radio - up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC and Realaudio
BBC Live Radio - up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC, WMA and Realaudio
BBC Podcasts - up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC
BBC iPlayer TV subtitles - SubRip / srt

Unlike the web sites above, get_iplayer has PVR-like capabilities (like Sky+ / TiVo / Series-Link); You can save lists of programme searches which are automatically recorded when they become available so that you can watch them when you choose and on devices that cannot run Adobe Flash Player - even if you don’t have adequate broadband speeds or if your broadband streams too slowly at peak hours when you want to watch a programme.

The iPhone H.264 feeds from the BBC are higher quality than in the Flash iPlayer (normal quality). See the beebhack wiki for a comparison. They are intended for the Apple iPhone and are consequently difficult to download for any other OS. The same goes for the iPhone MP3 radio streams. get_iplayer also allows recording of the high-quality (even HD 720p) flash based content using rtmpdump. None of the above content is ‘protected’ by DRM. get_iplayer cannot remove DRM.

Phil Lewis and a few others worked out how to work around these problems and now have tools which essentially simulate an iPhone as far as the BBC web servers are concerned.

get_iplayer does the recording, indexing and searching of the iPlayer TV/Radio programmes and podcasts available. It can even stream the iPlayer TV programmes while recording them to mplayer, vlc or xine, etc.

SOURCE FILES:

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/

[Hogweed]

get_iplayer 2.66 is in the Ubuntu Lucid Universe Repository. I just installed it on Lucid Puppy 5.2 with PPM (need flvplayer as well from repo). I can get a list of programmes but when I try to download a tv show it fails with error code 256. If I try to download a radio show it works. Not sure if the error is because a newer version is needed or for some other reason. Might look more closely later.

[abushcrafter]

Sure would be nice to run a fork of get_iplayer.

[Hogweed]

Ok, I got it to work. Needed to download the latest source package and replaced the original /usr/bin/get_iplayer perl script installed from Ubuntu-Universe (2.66) with the latest version (2.79).

Also downloaded rtmpdump(2.3) from lucid bleed repo but not sure if that was needed (flvplayer can also be used) but I thought I might as well grab the latest version of rtmpdump anyway.

In any case I can now download and record iplayer content.

[stu90]

Sounds interesting.

I notice there is also a get-flash-videos as well
http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/

[1050rat]

Hi Hogweed,

Is there any way you or anyone out there can make a Pet package of get_iplayer...pretty please ?!!!

I tried to do this earlier on today but failed miserably and would like to use this great little tv / radio download tool again.

Cheers

1050rat

[chrome307]

@ Hogweed

Glad you managed to get it working, just wanted to reiterate 1050rat request and ask if you could share it with us?

Thanks in advance!

[nooby]

Does not BBC restrict who is to get these prgrms
I mean copyright only paid for Brittish citizens so
for us not Brittish and living abroad? Would it work?

[666philb]

i've made a simplified get iplayer .pet for lucid puppy here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73497

[1050rat]

Many thanks to 666philb for the iplayer pet as requested - it works a treat !!

Hoorah...!