Javad Ayaz wrote: > Does anyone know how to download files from the iplayer?
The main problem is the RTMP protocol used for streaming FLV data to the Flash player. RTMP isn't currently supported by any stable Linux application other than the closed-source Adobe Flash Player. There is discussion on the development of an open-source RTMP handler on this forum (Linux on the XBox): http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27063 So far they have written a script to extract an RTMP URL given a BBC iPlayer web page URL: http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showpost.php?p=162482&postcount=70 It looks like RTMP will shortly be included in the Gnash open-source Flash player, and in the PHP CURL module. From there it will be little effort to take this code and insert it into, say, mplayer and then use -dumpstream to rip the stream down to a file. So the answer is: wait a couple of months and then download the latest versions of Gnash, CURL and/or your favourite media player. In the mean time, the only method that works right now is screen-grabbing your browser window with something like Record My Desktop. A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box and replace the fixed hard drive with a hard drive caddy. Record the programmes then mount the hard drive on your local machine, then rip the MPEG2 stream file to whatever you fancy. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
