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
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