Recording iPlayer programmes

Evenin'!

Does anyone know how one might download/record stuff from iPlayer for keeps? I'm using Leopard. Are there any programs that might do the job? I've seen a couple of tutorials online but they involve using Ruby and typing code/words in that make f-all sense to me.

Just to clarify - I only want a high quality intro from the BBC News at 6 or 10 programmes for the missus. I am a law-abiding citizen. :)

Any help would be much appreciated peoples.

I don't think it's possible, from a quick Google.

Maybe you could somehow get the video from a cache or temp directory that Flash uses? I'd be interested if anyone works it out.

it can be done, I've done it, but at the mo I can't remember how....

simply place your mobile in front of the screen and record the images using the phone's camera.
With a half decent size memory card I'm sure you could get a few episodes of Eastenders or What Not To Wear on it. Then just bluetooth to your computer. Bingo!

... or hold some tracing paper over the screen and do a brass rubbing or some shit.

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Snapz? It'd have to be real time though... tedious.

simply place your mobile in front of the screen and record the images using the phone's camera.
With a half decent size memory card I'm sure you could get a few episodes of Eastenders or What Not To Wear on it. Then just bluetooth to your computer. Bingo!

Ha! I have a HV20 and did consider setting up a tripod in front of my screen. It's just for a school thing mind (she's a primary teacher) so it doesn't need to be perfect. Just thought I'd check to see if there was a tidier solution around that didn't involve getting the video camera/tracing paper out. Record Eastenders or What Not To Wear? Pff! (Reminders are already set in my EPG - I watch that shit straight off the telebox!)

@ Fred - if you remember the solution it'd be mighty fine to hear how you did it. In the meantime I'll be checking them FF add-ons (cheers fudge).

I remember now. see here for a list of tools.

What I was doing was capturing realplayer streams off the BBC, which works in a similar way. Though with iplayer you've got DRM to worry about too.

Basically the process is (was) pretty simple: use ethereal to interrogate the TCP/IP packet and find the RTSP URL, then plug that in to a streaming tool to capture the stream. then you can edit away as you need.

before anyone get's on their soapbox, I was recording interviews and DJ sets where my brother was guest appearing on BBC7.

shameless plug for him, he's signed to DJ Rap's label and had records out with Bobby Friction / Nihal:

http://www.myspace.com/kill_time

I've done the tracing paper thing before with a cartoon. I made a flip-book of mickey mouse falling over. I was 7. :)

It's fun, pause the video and skip forwards a little bit, trace, repeat, bingo!

Oh dear, I see I am only about 14 months late in posting...but for what it's worth, the answer yes you can record iPlayer. I've been messing around with this problem for a couple of years now (but not only from iPlayer stuff). You can either try to download the streaming video or just capture it from your screen. Recording streaming video will give you better quality but it doesn't always work (I've had trouble with Channel 4 On-Demand) so you have to resort to literally recording from your screen: so make sure you turn off your screen-saver! I have the same problem and want to record stuff for later viewing and always seem to miss the catch-up service. Otherwise I just download it from the BBC and that's just fine. Then I connect the laptop to the telly and away you go.. If you're interested, I put a short blog on all this together at: http://www.recordiplayer.com

this works too

yeah on leopard / snow leopard these are the best:

iPlayer Grabber (you just click the one you want - one at a time though)
http://fader.co.uk/post/iPlayer-Grabber-the-iPlayer-downloader-for-Mac-OS-X.aspx

Get iPlayer Automator (indexes the entire archive where you can queue up what you want and leave them to download):
http://tom-tech.com/iplayer_automator/iPlayer_Automator/Get_iPlayer_Automator.html

At the moment you might find that some programs won't download, that's because they might be too new, or the BBC just haven't made/uploaded the iPod version of the program.

Bump. For reasons known only to her, my cousin wants to show her son some Peter Rabbit while she's on holiday. I've got all of them on the desktop iPlayer thing - what's the most pain free way of de-DRMing them so I can whack them on Plex for her to torment said child with at her leisure?

I remember doing it years ago with fffmpeg or something but my days of having a brain are long gone. Is there a "push button = done" solution anywhere? Ideally that works with pre-downloaded DRM MP4s because I can't be bothered to go back to iPlayer again.

Get_iplayer
https://squarepenguin.co.uk/downloads/

Sorcery. I saw "terminal" and was about to 'meh' but actually that is brilliantly easy. Thank you :)