http://linuxcentre.net Nonsense Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:38:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Merry Christmas! Another great feature has been added to get_iplayer. You can now download programmes from the high quality flash version of the BBC iPlayer (640x360 resolution) using the optional rtmpdump tool. This means that you will be able to download ANY programme as soon as it is available on the ... http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-gets-high-quality-flash-bbc-iplayer-rtmp-downloading-capability/ I just noticed today that the BBC Radio Audio-on-demand (aod) for BBC Local Radio has at long last been integrated with the iPlayer. Although there still only appears to be RealAudio streams for these local radio programmes at least get_iplayer v1.03 can now index them and get the information for ... http://linuxcentre.net/bbc-local-radio-support-in-get_iplayer/ You know how it gets over the Christmas period; busy visiting relatives and friends, drinking and partying. The last thing you remember to do is to watch that crucial episode on iPlayer within the minute window of seven days the BBC has kindly granted you. Now is the time to set ... http://linuxcentre.net/dont-want-to-miss-that-programme-on-iplayer-over-christmas/ I've just been contacted by Richard Ablewhite who has recently updated his excellent iPlayer MythTV plugin MythVodka that now uses get_iplayer. You can see a slightly older version of it running on this youtube video which gives you an idea of how well it works. The streaming capabilities do seem to ... http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-working-with-mythtv-plugin/ Yeah, yeah, before you say it - I know my version numbering system is rather pathetic. However version 1.00 has been released because this is actually the 100th version. There are, however, some useful features that have recently been added: '--tree' option: Displays the lists of programmes or matching programmes in ... http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-100-released/ Given that I don't actually suffer from this problem I guess it is not surprising that I didn't realise until now how useful get_iplayer is for people with slow 'broadband' connections. I have recently heard that several people use get_iplayer to download because watching the BBC iPlayer via the flash ... http://linuxcentre.net/is-your-broadband-connection-too-slow-for-bbc-iplayer/ Looks like my prediction in this earlier post was not quite right. Things are marginally better and much worse; The Bad news: The BBC eventually announced that the iPlayer Mobile download service would in fact not be using 3GP/H.264 but in fact DRMed WMV HTTP downloads (yes that's a Windows video ... http://linuxcentre.net/new-bbc-iplayer-mobile-uses-wmv-with-drm/ Erik Huggers, ex-Microsoft BBC Director of Future Media & Technology, has just announced that the BBC, in partnership with Adobe, are building a platform-neutral download client. It will use the Adobe Integrated Runtime, or 'AIR'. Unfortunately, even though AIR is supposed to be platform-neutral, Adobe, in their wisdom have chosen again (as ... http://linuxcentre.net/bbc-iplayer-download-client-will-use-platform-neutral-air-with-drm/ You can now install and update get_iplayer using DEB and RPM packages for Linux. I've tried to keep them as generic as possible so the RPMs will most likely work just fine on all Redhat/Fedora derived Linux distributions. Same goes for the DEB packages on all Debian derived distros such ... http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-rpm-and-deb-packages-now-available/ Ever wanted to automatically download your favourite BBC iPlayer programmes and podcasts? Well now get_iplayer v0.84 can act as a quite sophisticated PVR. It allows you to download any number of iPlayer / podcast programmes using any combination of search terms that you would normally run on the get_iplayer command ... http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-has-new-pvr-functionality/