Recording from BBC iPlayer

tony1947

My daughter who lives in Oz has just asked me to record an episode of "empty houses" as the latest programme featured her house (now sold thank goodness).

I can watch it on iPlayer and have downloaded it to my desktop but both scenarios seem to limit you to 7 days viewing. Is there any way I can capture it to DVD/CD from my PC. I don't have my TV linked into my home hub or I assume I could have recorded it to my DVD hard drive, or maybe not!

Any advice gratefully received.

Thanks
Tony

ehlo

Yes, you can do this using get_iplayer.

Alternatively if you daughter knows how to use bittorrent it might be easier for her to download it. Not really illegal if nobody owns the copyright to it in Oz!

mr_fishbulb

ehlo wrote: »

Yes, you can do this using get_iplayer.

Alternatively if you daughter knows how to use bittorrent it might be easier for her to download it. Not really illegal if nobody owns the copyright to it in Oz!

The legality of watching the program in Oz would be the same no matter how it is downloaded. Just because you copy the video straight from iPlayer doesn't make it any less bad than downloading it through BitTorrent - she's either allowed to watch it or she's not.

With that in mind, I know that Aus ISPs are very stingy with their download caps on broadband. Depending on how much it would cost, it's probably best to download them to DVD and post it out there.

bob_a_builder

does get_iplayer still work ?
not saying it doesn't just asking

It seemed a bit linux based ( or at least quite complex to install) so was going to suggest the PC based one I used to use
i.e.
http://po-ru.com/projects/iplayer-downloader/

But it seems the BBC have closed the loop hole to allow 'posing' as an iPod from Dec 2010

The get_iplayer web pages are dated prior to Dec 2010

edit : on reading po-ru furher, he recomends using get_iplayer after his stopped working. So seems get_iplayer is the way forward for now

RussJK

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

With that in mind, I know that Aus ISPs are very stingy with their download caps on broadband.

Not so much that they're stingy, it's more that Telstra is pretty much the equivalent of BT ten years ago and has worked hard to keep things slow, expensive, and profitable.

There's very recently been big renegotiation which has significantly lowered the wholesale costs for ISPs, so in turn raised the download caps for lines using the Telstra network.

bat999

tony1947 wrote: »

an episode of "empty houses"

iPlayer website shows:-
No results found for empty houses

cit_k

do they mean empty homes?

tony1947

cit_k wrote: »

do they mean empty homes?

OOPS...empty homes it is. The episode is the one from St Albans if anyone is interested. I am still not sure my daughter knew it was being filmed as she has been in Oz for two years.

Thanks for the info on get_iplayer I will check it out.

bat999

tony1947 wrote: »

empty homes it is. The episode is the one from St Albans

iPlayer website shows:-
No results found for empty homes St Albans

Richie-from-the-Boro

Here is a list 2010 - 2011 that were on the iPlayer, the search name is Britain's Empty Homes .. .. begins with B not E.

However most are now not available.