2008/5/30 Graeme West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apologies if this is a dupe, or old news. Someone (Paul Battley, I think, > possibly others) has made a rather nice download client for the streaming > iPlayer for the Mac.
I'm responsible for the iplayer-dl downloader, but not for the front-end client. I'm not particularly interested in GUIs myself (typical programmer!) but I did refactor the code deliberately to facilitate integration into GUIs in the hope that other people would write them. There's a couple for OS X, but nothing for Windows yet as far as I'm aware. > I've always had trouble with the argument - made somewhat often on this list > - that the content protection on services like the iPlayer just had to be > 'good enough' to keep the majority from downloading the content (to keep), > rather than super-secure in order to keep the tech savvy. This is the proof > that that argument is wrong. The iplayer-dl program is still difficult to use for the majority, I think - and I haven't gone out of my way to address that. It's a lot easier for Mac users now; if someone writes an easy-to-install Windows front-end (which could be quite easy with rubyscript2exe and Tk, I suspect), it really will be available to the masses. That's a low hurdle to jump. Once it happens, this could be really disruptive. > So perhaps a download button on the streaming iPlayer (to grab MP4s) isn't > such a radical idea? Technically, it's practically there already. Culturally, it's almost inconceivable. It's entirely an issue of perception. Paul. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
