Keeping BBCiPlayer downloads

baby-mechanic

Hi there

Want to keep a programme we downloaded from BBC iplayer this week, as the iplayer download function only enables you to keep it for a month.

Any free gizmo programmes I can use to save it, and allow me to burn it to dvd as well.

thanks

esuhl

There's certainly a way to do it... but I don't think breaking DRM can be discussed here without breaking the forum rules.

DCFC79

esuhl wrote: »

There's certainly a way to do it... but I don't think breaking DRM can be discussed here without breaking the forum rules.

thats corrcet,

Marty_J

You might be able to find it on the BBC Shop:

http://www.bbcshop.com/1-Shop/DVD/icat/dvd

Bob63

There is no DRM at all in iPlayer videos displayed on the Mac / iPhone platform so discussing DRM-related issues for the Mac can't contravene any rules of this form.

There is an excellent piece of software available for the Mac called iPlayer Downloader - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28733/bbc-iplayer-downloader - which downloads the Quicktime movie file directly from the iPlayer site. No DRM broken at all and the downloaded file can be watched at any time and even burned to DVD if that's your thing.

superscaper

cheesy.mike wrote: »

There is no DRM at all in iPlayer videos displayed on the Mac / iPhone platform so discussing DRM-related issues for the Mac can't contravene any rules of this form.

There is an excellent piece of software available for the Mac called iPlayer Downloader - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28733/bbc-iplayer-downloader - which downloads the Quicktime movie file directly from the iPlayer site. No DRM broken at all and the downloaded file can be watched at any time and even burned to DVD if that's your thing.

But it certainly breaks the licensing terms though. Just because you can do something easily, doesn't make it legal. The time shift exemption to the copyright law is what you're using and the BBC has agreed with the copyright holders and means that you're breaking the copyright law by copying the media outside of iplayer to use beyond the time you agreed to and are licensed by.

Marty_J

cheesy.mike wrote: »

There is no DRM at all in iPlayer videos displayed on the Mac / iPhone platform so discussing DRM-related issues for the Mac can't contravene any rules of this form.

There's no DRM in the streaming version because you aren't supposed to be able to download the programs. If you were allowed to download the streams, they would just make a version of the iPlayer application without DRM and be done with it.

ahall41116

baby-mechanic wrote: »

Hi there

Want to keep a programme we downloaded from BBC iplayer this week, as the iplayer download function only enables you to keep it for a month.

Any free gizmo programmes I can use to save it, and allow me to burn it to dvd as well.

thanks

you have a pm

Marty_J

Someone has already posted how to download things from BBC iPlayer, so I think it's a bit late for all the cloak and dagger stuff.

You do know don't you, that moderators on message boards can generally read people's PMs?

wanye

Marty_J wrote: »

Someone has already posted how to download things from BBC iPlayer, so I think it's a bit late for all the cloak and dagger stuff.

You do know don't you, that moderators on message boards can generally read people's PMs?

no they can't.

unless they have full site admin (ie mysql) access. and on a large forum with lots of moderators, this isnt usually likely.

Bob63

wanye wrote: »

no they can't.

unless they have full site admin (ie mysql) access. and on a large forum with lots of moderators, this isnt usually likely.

Yes they can. I administer a vBulletin based forum (same software used here) and it is very easy for the site administrator to add extensions to read another person's PM. You should never assume that a private message is just that. Nor should you ever use the same password on a public forum that you also use for email, credit card, bank, etc.