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How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:29am
by thaitanic
With the impending return of A&J I need to find out how to record stuff from the BBC iPlayer? Anyone got any tips? Is there a special program to do that or is there something that just records what goes through my sound card? cheers

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:31am
by hobbsy
Audacity can record 'what you hear' on your PC

it's free

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:43am
by Gabriel
I used Audacity as well and it's pretty good.

What's the best way to record video though? I wondered about recording Joe's bit in Film 2011. I think I've used Hypercam in the past but it has an annoying watermark.

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:09pm
by Sputnik
I use this, does the job nicely.

http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:32am
by thaitanic
Ah, if Audacity can do it then Sound Forge can, and I own that. Thanks.

Nerdoftheherd sounds perfect. I will probably test both options shortly before the season starts.

Thanks!

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:56pm
by benjula
Sputnik wrote:I use this, does the job nicely.

http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/


seconded.

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:46am
by namesinspace
erm - there are apps out there that let you download the file itself......but the BBC really don't like anyone doing that so I'll leave it to you to search. It's much quicker than recording something in real time.

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:46am
by thaitanic
benjula wrote:
Sputnik wrote:I use this, does the job nicely.

http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/


seconded.

Cheers. Downloading Saturday's show with it now. Anyone know what the native bitrate of the highest quality iPlayer audio stream is? 128kbs? I want to get the stream without any recompression if possible for editing but this looks like it's going to do a recompression with LAME.

Re: How to record iPlayer etc.?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:53am
by adamneve
Amazing, I've always wondered how to do this! and now I know, cheers! 8-)