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 [...]

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 a sort-of tree view
‘--hide’ option: [...]

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 [...]

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 as Ubuntu.
Please let me know [...]

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 line. This includes searching by [...]

It was discovered this evening that the iPhone can get BBC iPlayer radio programmes in higher quality MP3 format. It basically uses the same method used for the iPhone video downloads. get_iplayer v0.74 now supports this fully and can also fallback to RealAudio format for those shows that still have not been made available to [...]

It would appear that the BBC have already made a stream available which looks like the one going to be used in the upcoming N96 iplayer download service. I may have jumped the BBC’s gun here slightly; I used get_iplayer to extract the media stream data for a programme and fed this to vlc (a [...]

Darn, my server crashed quite badly today (web, email, dns, imap - the lot). It ran Fedora6 with Centos5 on Xen. Looks like it was some hardware problem due to possible overheating Maybe it was that additional graphics card I added a few days ago… It caused a whole lot of filesystem corruption [...]

Good news! get_iplayer v0.46 now indexes, searches, downloads or streams all BBC podcasts. Just use the --type=podcast or --type=all option to enable this. The podcasts appear to be in either mp3 or aac format so no transcoding is required.