get_iplayer allows a user to stream or make recordings of any BBC iPlayer TV (H.264/Quicktime), BBC iPlayer Radio (MP3/AAC/RealAudio), or BBC Podcasts (MP3/AAC). It downloads iPlayer subtitles, metadata, and thumbnails. It has full PVR functionality for automatic searching, queuing, and stream recording. Its plug-in architecture allows third-party channels to be added. Live and embedded iPlayer TV and Radio recording and streaming is also supported. The optional Web PVR Manager allows full PVR searching, recording, and playback support of available and recorded material.
Changes: Automatic detection is done of whether a URL is http:// or <type>:http:// in a search term, and is then set as if it were a –url option. A change from 2.21 was reverted, and system-wide options are read additionally from /etc/get_iplayer/, as /var/lib/get_iplayer/ violates the FHS and Debian policy. Extended metadata is gotten if –fileprefix is used. Extended, alternate, and duplicate programme versions that have no version name set in the meta-data are allowed. Some deprecated options were removed. The –ignorechannels option was added, which causes matching channels not to be indexed when refreshed. Embedded MP3 flashaudio programmes that do not have the encoding attribute set are parsed.
Release Tags: Feature enhancements and bugfixes
Tags: multimedia, Sound/Audio, Video
Licenses: GPLv3