Freeware to play protected BBC iPlayer downloads?

beeb watch

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Jun 12, 2011, 9:14:02 AM6/12/11

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BBC iPlayer TV downloads have DRM and play in Windows Media Player.

Is there any freeware to play these downloads? VLC and GOM don't work for
me (Windows XP).

Here's an example of what I mean............
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hd5mf/Charles_Darwin_and_the_
Tree_of_Life/>

J. Clarke

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Jun 12, 2011, 10:30:43 AM6/12/11

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In article <74b5f89727eca7df...@rip.ax.lt>,
bbcw...@iplayer.co.uk says...

Flash Player.

Paul

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Jun 12, 2011, 5:12:07 PM6/12/11

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer

"DRM software prevents it being directly copied to another medium
(e.g. another computer or CD-ROM), and allows the BBC to control
how long the programmes remain watchable. Programmes are available
for download for seven days following broadcast. Once a programme
is downloaded a user has only thirty days to start watching it.
Once a user starts to watch a programme, it will continue to be
available for the next seven days."

Looks like a job for a hacker, or for free software on Linux or something.

An easy way to defeat it, would be to dial back the clock on your
computer, but whether that would work, would depend on whether the
computer must be connected to the Internet, before the archived file
will play. If the computer has to be connected to the Internet, then
cheating on "local time" won't work.

I'm a hardware guy, so I'd try to "screen record" it using an HDMI
capture card. That's a lot easier than following every "twist and
turn in the road". The quality wouldn't be very good, but the copy
made, would be your very own.

Paul

Gene E. Bloch

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Jun 12, 2011, 10:48:45 PM6/12/11

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On 6/12/2011, beebwatch posted:
> BBC iPlayer TV downloads have some sort of DRM and play in Windows Media
> Player.

> Is there any freeware to play these downloads? VLC and GOM players don't
> work on my Windows XP.

> Here's an example of what I mean............
> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hd5mf/Charles_Darwin_and_the_
> Tree_of_Life/>

You should crosspost instead of multiposting, so that everyone can see
your posts and the replies thereto in the several newsgroups.

To find out how, notice what the headers are on my reply. Maybe even
Google for crossposting and multiposting, so you can learn the
advantages of the former and the disadvantages of the latter.

Consider Googling for video capture, or look at something like
StreamRecorder.exe.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch

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Jun 12, 2011, 10:50:54 PM6/12/11

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On 6/12/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:

I notice that the tag "[off topic]" appeared in my subject line. I have
no idea how it got there - I didn't knowingly do it :-)

Gene E. Bloch

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Jun 12, 2011, 10:52:27 PM6/12/11

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Never mind - it was an artifact of beebwatch's multi-posting.

Mark

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Jun 13, 2011, 5:47:27 AM6/13/11

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get_iplayer will download BBC content with no DRM.
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