media on many BBC web pages. Live streams tested by Pedro la Peu, thanks!
(he was seeing problems with mplayer stuttering about 50% of the time,
but perfect on reconnecting).
Try "get_iplayer --pid tv:<url or channel> --stdout --nowrite" piped
into "mplayer -cache 512 -" or "ffplay -".
- add .../archive/ to MASTER_SITES, old files are moved there
- force packagemanager to be set to restrict updates from inside
the software, following conversation with oga@.
This tool allows you to search, index and download/stream:
* BBC iPlayer TV - H.264 / Quicktime / mov and Flash / AVI
* BBC iPlayer Radio (Local and National) - 128+ kbps MP3 / AAC and
Realaudio
* BBC Podcasts - 128 kb/s MP3 / AAC
* BBC iPlayer TV subtitles - SubRip / srt
* ITV player Catch-up or classic TV - WMV / ASF
* Hulu.com* TV - MP4
* Hulu.com* Closed-captions / subtitles - SubRip / srt
get_iplayer has PVR-like capabilities (like Sky+ / TiVo / Series-Link);
You can save lists of programme searches which are automatically
downloaded when they become available.