Make a recording from BBC iPlayer?

Neil_Jones

You can't keep Sky recordings long time either unless your SKY subscription is up to date

You can actually, you just can't watch them. That's the difference, an active subscription is required to watch, not strictly to record - non-subscribers to BT's AMC channel can record it, but not watch until they upgrade their subscription. And in any case storing things long-term on a PVR box (such as Sky+) isn't particularly recommended as the hard drive will eventually fail and the entire lot will go.

The argument for retention of recordings for personal viewing at a later date is an old one, dating back from the times of when home video was brand new. It's generally a guideline of about 30 days but you're not going to get thrown in jail just because you held onto a recording of Coronation Street for 35 days.

Indeed its people who have held onto old recordings for years that mean a lot of what was wiped by the BBC/ITV regions in the 1970s has been recovered, so that has actually done them a favour as it turned out...

Cornucopia

Strider590 wrote: »

Nonetheless, I wouldn't recommend suggesting anything that upsets the left wing BBC on what is becoming a predominantly left wing forum.

This is the Techie Stuff forum - we rise above such things here.

Lakeuk

The app suggested just hooks into bbc's existing iPlayer infrastructure, its not mainstream that it's used widely, they don't support it and in turn don't endorse it, they know about it and the developers of it mimic key iPlayer functions to keep of the right side of the Beeb tollorating it. So if you use getiplayer as is, it will delete recordings after 30 days same as the iPlayer app.

Getiplayer is less usable than it used to be as the Beeb are slowing evolving iPlayer and is expected to stop working next year as the Beeb have given notice that they're doing a Big Bang change to how their backend works next year.

Strider590

Neil_Jones wrote: »

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Indeed its people who have held onto old recordings for years that mean a lot of what was wiped by the BBC/ITV regions in the 1970s has been recovered, so that has actually done them a favour as it turned out...

I think that was more of a happy accident, they have a virtually infinite archive now, so that excuse isn't going wash.

wongataa

psychic_teabag wrote: »

I can record to humax PVR and keep it for as long as I want - nothing enforces any kind of deletion policy there. And I can transfer from there to my pc.

I can also use a USB freeview tuner to record BBC from over-the-air to hard disk. Again, no deletion enforcement.

But in those cases you are recording the broadcast TV signal which is fine. You are not capturing and saving an iPlayer stream.

Cornucopia

I don't see how we're going to resolve that here, though.

I suppose someone could raise a FOI request with the BBC...?

fenlander_uk

I'm going to break the first rule of get_iPlayer (which is the same as the first rule of most other things) to make one thing clear: files downloaded with get_iPlayer do not become unusable or auto-delete after a period of time. Video files are standard mp4s and audio files are m4a format and are easily converted to mp3 if required.
Please don't comment misleadingly on software unless you actually use and understand it.

esuhl

fenlander_uk wrote: »

I'm going to break the first rule of get_iPlayer (which is the same as the first rule of most other things) to make one thing clear: files downloaded with get_iPlayer do not become unusable or audio-delete after a period of time. Video files are standard mp4s and audio files are m4a format and are easily converted to mp3 if required.
Please don't comment misleadingly on software unless you actually use and understand it.

Last time I used it (a long time ago), it did prompt you to automatically delete files older than a certain time (30 days, I think).

fenlander_uk

Get_iPlayer has to evolve every time iPlayer changes, so its features are a bit of a movable feast.

Cornucopia

Is there a definitive difference between keeping a recording, say, on a Freeview PVR and by downloading via get_iplayer?

How does that compare to ripping a DVD that you already own?