Programs

From Beebhack

List of known interoperable scripts / programs

Contents 1 iPlayer Downloaders 1.1 Any (agnostic) Platform 1.2 MacOS 1.3 Windows 1.3.1 Xbox 2 Associated Tools (wrappers, scripts, flv & rtsp streamers etc) 2.1 Platform agnostic 2.2 iPhone 2.3 Linux 2.4 MacOS 2.5 Windows

[edit] iPlayer Downloaders

These programs access the BBC's server to fetch indexes and download the video or sound files themselves.

[edit] Any (agnostic) Platform

• iplayer-dl, An iPlayer downloader written in Ruby (Subversion repository)
• get_iplayer, Downloads, Indexes & Searches: TV, Radio, Embedded Video/Audio, Podcast & Subtitles. PVR capabilities. Flash RTMP support. Written in Perl.

[edit] MacOS

• iPlayer Downloader, Mac OS X Cocoa-based downloader. A collaboration between Lawrence Dudley and Math Campbell using Paul Battley's iplayer-dl.
• Beeb Downloader, Mac OS X Applescript-based GUI.

[edit] Windows

• iplayer-dl GUI, Windows XP/Vista GUI (source) Note: this will only download the iPhone version of TV programmes, or radio programmes.
• Windows Automated Installer for get_iplayer, (download latest) Note: this can download any version of radio or TV, from HD 720P down to Nokia, etc.

[edit] Xbox

• xbmc-iplayerv2, XBMC plugin written in Python.
• xbmc-iplayer, XBMC plugin written in Python - no longer maintained

[edit] Associated Tools (wrappers, scripts, flv & rtsp streamers etc)

These tools make the above downloader programs more useful.

[edit] Platform agnostic

• flvstreamer, A tool that downloads RTMP iPlayer video streams (This is a fork of rtmpdump with RTMPE support removed and many more features - get_iplayer uses this tool, written in C++).
• xbmc-iplayer, An XBMC Script which can also work as a plugin script under the platform agnostic Boxee. See this guide in the Boxee forums.
• iplayer-dl Automator, A wrapper for iplayer-dl written in BASH.* BeebhackDownloader, A class for downloading iPlayer video. Written in Java.
• Web PVR Manager, A web front-end to get_iplayer PVR with advanced Search and streaming functionality. Written in Perl.
• rtmpdump, A tool that downloads RTMP iPlayer video streams (including RTMPE) written in C++, no longer maintained
• cgi_get_iplayer.pl - a simple and hacky perl script which presents a web interface to get_iplayer, and makes downloaded flash videos playable using the JFW player.

[edit] iPhone

• ipl2iph, A Bash script for downloading and playing iPlayer programmes from a (jailbroken) iPhone using iplayer-dl and other tools.

[edit] Linux

• MythVodka MythTV plugin, uses get_iplayer.

[edit] MacOS

• iPlayer Grabber, Native Cocoa app with integrated iPlayer browser using Paul Battley's iplayer-dl.
• iPlayer-DL Automator GUI, Applescript Studio-based GUI.
• iPlayer Downloader native Cocoa program using Phil Lewis's get_iplayer.
• Get iPlayer Automator, Cocoa GUI for get_iplayer.

[edit] Windows

• Web PVR Manager, A web front-end to get_iplayer PVR with advanced Search and streaming functionality (also included in the above installer).