Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone who would like to download video files from the BBC with
> needing a Windows box, there is an easy way to get an MP4 file
> directly from the BBC iPlayer site.
>
> Basically you change your user-agent in your browser to that of
> the Apple iPhone, then you can use UnPlug or view source to find
> the MP4 file, and you can save the video directly to you box with
> the browser or wget.
> http://bbc.co.uk/iplayer
> The MP4 file should play with most media players, xine and mplayer
> on my box were quite happy to play the video file. A 30 minute tv
> show is about 110Mb as MP4 when downloaded. No DRM and no messing
> about with flash required.
>
> See:
> http://exploringfreedom.org/2008/03/08/bbc-iplayer-on-gnu-linux-without-flash-using-only-free-software/
>
> for details.
>
Everything works as advertised. I can the <object in the firebug window.
I just can figure out how to cut/navigate to the firebug window.
Everytime I move the mouse, I loose the contect of the iPlayer window.
I would just type in the wget command, but I can't see the entire url.
suggestions please
