[REQUEST] BBC iPlayer (Video) Plugin or Script?

I live in the UK and im also on Virgin Media but tbh my xbox is for media not for live material. Im happy either way

Didn't realise it wasn't in that link! If we're being picky...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/25/...ux_macosx/

Quote:Officials reiterated that the BBC Trust is fully committed to users of both the Linux and Mac operating systems having full use of the BBC iPlayer.

Quote:It was a condition of approval for the BBC's on-demand services that platform neutrality be achieved within a reasonable period."

Here's Hoping!

Chris

It would only work for UK users also as it's only for people in the UK who PAY thier license fee and want to watch a program that they missed.

navanman Wrote:It would only work for UK users also as it's only for people in the UK who PAY their license fee and want to watch a program that they missed.

It would certainly only be legal for those entitled to watch BBC - Which includes some in the states with various sky packages I think -

This is also the case for the BBC and BBCradio scripts and indeed the numerous streaming scripts that use BBC News 24/BBC 1/BBC Parliament and similar.

As for DRM - Firstly they have said, as someone pointed out that they are aiming eventually to make it work on linux. This likely means no DRM.

Even if there is DRM on it several hacks are available these days to strip DRM off the recording with little fuss.

Might require a local network PC to act as a proxy though :-(

Still when it becomes linux compatable I'd be surprised if we can't manage something.

A number of hacks have been discovered for all DRM versions up until the most recent (I think) for stripping the DRM off the file.

Of course we would not want to be enabling piracy by doing this. Simply enabling compatibility. Users would be responsible for insuring that they only used the files in a manner compatible with the terms and conditions....

A bit early i know, but this is me requesting a script for the BBC's iPlayer. Looks like they are abandoning DRM for a flash based streaming service that will be platform neutral....

Woo Hoo!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting...video.html

Well that's the Flash version of iPlayer now available. Should be relatively easy to create an XBMC script?

Sounds like it's got good potential. Wish I had the skills to build this

Still it does now sound like it's within the abilities of the members of this community to do it now!

I had a look at trying to find the flash video embedded in pages but I can't see it.
They load an XML file and it has the address of a server that I guess would be the location of the stream but I can't seem to find the file on it. Maybe HTTP isn't the right way to access it, i'll try ethereal for more answers.
I guess that if we don't use their code there is a chance we will be able to get around their UK only restriction.
Well I can hope...

paperclipmonkey Wrote:I guess that if we don't use their code there is a chance we will be able to get around their UK only restriction

Should be possible to 'fool' or 'spoof' from which location in the world you are in using a proxy, checkout http://proxy.org

http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
would make a nice re-usable module for any python script to use I would think

...though I'm not sure if the python-engine in XBMC uses the HTTP proxy set in XBMC via GUI settings?