Download DRM Free HD Video & Audio From BBC iPlayer with iPlayer Downloader

By Sandip Dedhia on May 28, 2009
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BBC iPlayerBBC iPlayer is the service developed by BBC to make available latest Programs, Videos and Radio Audio of past week with DRM protection for Online Streaming and for Mobile Devices like iPhone & iPod Touch. However BBC iPlayer service is only available for UK users.

Also there are many restrictions on videos provided under BBC iPlayer service, like video will only be available for past one week after broadcast and you can not store videos or play on any other player other than Adobe AIR based iPlayer.

If you are looking for way to Download & Watch TV Shows and Radio Shows from the BBC iPlayer outside the UK then iPlayer Donwloader is the Tool for you.

iPlayer Downloader lets you to download DRM-free video (h.264) and audio (MP3) files from the BBC iPlayer service by pretending to be an iPhone. iPlayer Downloader has nice GUI for downloading videos. You just need to add Program ID which can be found from actual URL from BBC iPlayer service.

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Sandip Dedhia

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  • http://www.techkeyla.com Sujoy

    This tool does not allow HD video downloads as you mentioned.
    The iPlayer downloader just makes iPlayer to think that the download is being done to a portable device, and hence the file output is just a .mov file, which is of inferior quality

  • Patrick

    iPlayer Downloader, by the nature of the way it works, is only able to download the low-resolution versions of programmes that were intended for playback on the small screen of an iPhone. While these are perfectly adequate for many purposes, it is misleading and incorrect to call them high definition.

    (The pixel resolution is roughly akin to an “HQ” video on YouTube, for comparison, though is probably of better quality overall since it is straight from the BBC and not the typical muddy-looking fifth-generation copy that you’d expect to find on YouTube.)

  • Matt

    Is there any way to ‘grab’ the videos in the same quality that you watch them in online? or is there another program that enables this?

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