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 (640×360 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 iPlayer Flash web page.
Andrej Stepanchuk [...]

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 a consistent set of XML [...]

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 up get_iplayer to act as [...]

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 be very slick
You [...]

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 web page just keeps pausing [...]

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 format!).
The good(ish) news: The resolution [...]

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 with flash) to prohibit the [...]

At long last I have included proper support of programmes that are signed in get_iplayer v0.83, i.e. those in the ‘Sign Zone’ category of the BBC iPlayer TV. You can now search for programmes based on their version; The version can be one of many different types. Most are default and a good few are [...]

Photo of me with Sylvester McCoy
Not sure why I was pulling that face - must have been the 40 hours without sleep; or maybe just the wired-with-caffeine look.

photo credit: Mashed08
Me doing my super-quick presentation at Mashed ‘08

photo credit: Ben Dodson comments: Full kudos to this guy - He announced that he’d managed to [...]

Just got back from Mashed ‘08 and Wow - what a blast! This was the first 24hr hack-fest (geekathon?) I have been to and thoroughly enjoyed it. I must admit that I am surprised I could manage the 40 hours without sleep! I met a number of very interesting and cool individuals there. I did [...]