get_iplayer 2.14

get_iplayer 2.14 offers you a versatile and very useful tool which lets you search, index and record/stream: BBC iPlayer TV - up to 3200 kbps HD 720p H.264 / Quicktime / MP4, BBC Live TV - 500 kbps H.264 / MP4, ITV player Catch-up / Classic TV - 384 kbps+ WMV / ASF, BBC iPlayer Radio - up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC and Realaudio, etc.

Unlike the web sites above, get_iplayer has PVR-like capabilities (like Sky+ / TiVo / Series-Link); You can save lists of program searches which are automatically recorded when they become available so that you can watch them when you choose and on devices that cannot run Adobe Flash Player - even if you don’t have adequate broadband speeds or if your broadband streams too slowly at peak hours when you want to watch a program.

The iPhone H.264 feeds from the BBC are higher quality than in the Flash iPlayer (normal quality). See the beebhack wiki for a comparison. They are intended for the Apple iPhone and are consequently difficult to download for any other OS. The same goes for the iPhone MP3 radio streams. get_iplayer also allows recording of the high-quality (even HD 720p) flash based content using flvstreamer. None of the above content is ‘protected’ by DRM. get_iplayer cannot remove DRM.

get_iplayer, does the recording, indexing and searching of the iPlayer TV/Radio/ITVplayer programmes and podcasts available. It can even stream the iPlayer TV programs while recording them to player or xine, etc. It does not circumvent any digital rights management security (see the BBC’s website on how to do that with the Windows-only DRM content they provide). The BBC iPlayer TV / ITV only work in the UK.

Major Features:

1. Recording/Streaming of TV, Radio and Podcasts from BBC, ITV sites
2. Recording/Streaming of Live BBC iPlayer TV & Radio
3. Recording/Streaming of Embedded media in BBC Learning Zone, Archive and News sites
4. PVR functionality allows predefined searches to be recorded from a scheduler such as cron or Windows scheduler
5. Queuing of programs for batched recording or for recording off-peak
6. Resume recordings of partially recorded content
7. Stream iPlayer or podcast content via mplayer or xine while recording it
8. Allow multiple programs to be recorded in one command
9. Indexing of all available programs
10. Script update capability
11. Advanced Searching on program name, episode, description, channel or category, etc
12. Limit search by programs made available after a specific number of hours
13. Removal of recorded content which is more than 30 days old
14. Meta-tagging of recorded iPlayer iPhone/H.264 and mp3 files for importing into iTunes
15. Plug-in based architecture to allow new channels and sites to be added by 3rd-parties

• Run command even after streaming to stdout.
• Allow --hash option to affect flvstreamer command if it supports this feature.
• Made flvstreamer exit code handling better when streaming