BBC iPlayer downloads

Is there any software which would enable BBC iPlayer downloads to be
burnt to DVD?

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:13:05 +0100, mikeos wrote:

> Is there any software which would enable BBC iPlayer downloads to be
> burnt to DVD?

I'm using linux rather than windows so I'm assuming that your downloads
are the same format - 480x272 .mov file
Not quite 16:9 but close enough.

I've just had a quick trial on my windoze machine and DeVeDe will work.
There are a lot of advanced settings but for this purpose the defaults
seem ok. Have a search for tutorials there are plenty about. see:

http://www.majorsilence.com/devede/

Since it has to convert the video it won't break any speed records but
it produced a reasonable .iso file which plays in VLC, so should be ok
to burn to a dvd.
Recommend Imgburn for this.

http://www.imgburn.com/

Just for info, I keep the size the same and convert to a Divx(xvid) .avi
using mencoder. Then play on my DVD player. Great quality.


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rich

>
Excellent. Thanks very much for this information. I appreciate it.

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:49:26 +0100, mikeos wrote:


> Excellent. Thanks very much for this information. I appreciate it.

After I posted I thought - Are these get_iplayer downloads? I hope they
are. AFAIK the BBC has some way of DRM-ing when viewed in a windows
machine. This is nicely circumvented by get_iplayer. see:

http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/download/

I have installed the windows version on a friends machine and the only
snag was the firewall - there is a bit of handshaking before the download
but it does work.


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rich