Hello Judy, I have pasted the Get iPlayer Automator article below. I hope this helps....
Playing TV and Radio programs on an Apple Macintosh The free App ‘Get iPlayer Automator’ is a great way to download and play TV and radio programs on an Apple Macintosh. You can download TV programs from the BBC , ITV and Channel 4 and radio programs from the BBC including those from regional stations. You can search for desired programs by entering words which might appear in the program title and you can set preferences to download the audio described version of the program if it is available. You can request that downloaded programs are automatically added to your iTunes library from where you can play them or transfer them to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad. You can automatically add programs which are part of a series to your download queue as they become available. Finally if you live outside the UK you can still download British TV and radio programs via a provided proxy. Get iPlayer Automator requires Mac OS 10.7 or later. You can download it free from http://tom-tech.com/iplayer_automator/iPlayer_Automator/Get_iPlayer_Automator.html. Copy the ‘Get iPlayer Automator.app’ from your download folder to your application folder and open it. Wait a few seconds and you will be invited to upgrade to the latest level which at the time of writing is 1.5.3 (536). You now need to change a few of the default preferences. Open the preference pane for Get iPlayer Automator and go to the general tab. If you live in the UK you must set the Proxy option to None. The default is Provided which should work if you live outside the UK but I have no way to test this. If you want to download BBC radio programs as well as TV programs ensure that BBC Radio and BBC Podcasts options are checked in the Items to Cache group. These are not checked by default. Also ensure that the Download Audio Described and Signed Versions option is checked. This is checked by default and will download the audio described version of a program if it is available. If no audio described version is available it will download the standard version. Now close the preference pane. To download a program first enter one or more words which might appear in the program title into the Search For Shows edit box and press the Enter key. After a few seconds look in the Search Results table for the desired show(s) and select them. Now press the Add To Queue button to add the desired show(s) to the download queue. Then check that the desired show(s) really are in the download queue and if this queue contains any unwanted shows select them and press the - button to remove them. Now go to the Toolbar and press the Start button to start downloading the desired show(s). These will be saved in the Download Path specified in the preference pane which by default is set to the Movies/TV Shows folder in your user area. Downloaded TV programs will also appear in the TV Shows part of your iTunes library from where you can play the desired shows. Downloaded radio programs will appear in the Music part of your iTunes library and can be found by going to Artists and looking for BBC Radio. You can use the TVR feature of Get iPlayer Automator to automatically download the next available program of a nominated series the next time you start Get iPlayer Automator. To do this press the TVR button in the Toolbar. This brings up a panel enabling you to search for a show in a series of shows and then add that series to the TVR queue. The next time you start Get iPlayer Automator it will search for the next show for each entry in the TVR queue and if one is found it will add it to your download queue. Each time you start Get iPlayer Automator it refreshes its index of possible shows. If you have not used Get iPlayer Automator for a while this can take several minutes during which the Search For Shows edit box is dimmed. You then just need to be patent and wait for the Search For Shows edit box to become available. On 12 Jul 2013, at 15:35, "Judy Pryor" <judith.pr...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Paul I could not receive your attachment either. I have had automator for > a while and I just cannot work it at all. I do not understand what all the > buttons are for particualy the plus and dash ones I type in what I want to > watch and it comes in to the table then I am unable to listen to it having > clicked everything I could think of. Its version 1.5.3536 and I am running > mountain lion. I think you have to subscribe to the access it magazine, > which issue is your imput in. I hope you can help. Judy > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopewell" <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 1:28 PM > Subject: Re: get iplayer automator (was Accessible Internet Browsers) For > theMack and Voiceover withMountain Lion > > > Hello, > FYI I attach an article on Get iPlayer Automator which I recently submitted > to the RNIB online magazine Access IT. > Enjoy.... > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > wawsxx I have just published > On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:59, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hello Andy, >> >> Don't despair! There's a solution. >> >> The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator >> >> <https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator> >> >> It works even outside the UK. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> On 8 Jul 2013, at 12:05, ANDY COLLINS <a...@recreation.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all - >>> >>> New to the Mac, only had my MacBook Air for 3 weeks. I'm interested in the >>> possibility of using a different web browser, as I want to use >>> >>> www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer >>> >>> to listen to radio/TV programmes I miss, here in the UK. I'm able to find >>> the programme I want to listen too, but the play button is a graphic, and >>> VO can't see it. JAWS under Windows was ok with this, as the BBC was made >>> aware of the problem, and made it accessible, but they don't appear to have >>> taken Mac users in to consideration. I'll contact them about this, but in >>> the meantime, don't want to keep missing programmes. Of course, I could be >>> wrong, and maybe there is a way to have VO see the play button when in a >>> graphic, and I just don't know how to make it happen, so if anybody knows >>> if VO can be made to see these graphic buttons, I'd appreciate the >>> knowledge - >>> >>> Andy >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopewell" >>> <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> >>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 9:56 AM >>> Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Browsers For the Mack and Voiceover >>> withMountain Lion >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I find that the lightning browser works fine with VoiceOver and often >>>> allows me to access buttons and the like which Safari cannot find for >>>> whatever reason. I recommend that you give it a go. It is in the App store. >>>> >>>> Paul Hopewell >>>> >>>> On 8 Jul 2013, at 02:02, gaggor...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Listers: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I heard that there are other options for browsers which are compatible >>>>> with >>>>> Voiceover. Is this true? If so, where do I obtain swuch a one? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Any help would be appreciated. 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