ITM on bbc iplayer

woodflute · Post by **woodflute** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:01 am

Just been looking at the bbc's new iplayer where you can view bbc programmes for up to 7 days after the showing and in some cases download them for 30 days and found 2 of interest. One is a profile of the chieftains and the other is folk hibernia looking at the Irish music revival.

folk hinernia link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/ ... src=ip_mlt

chieftains link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/ ... src=ip_mlt

You need to download the iplayer app and I am not sure if viewing outside the uk is possible but I thought it was worth passing on. I actually ended up viewing them online as the download speed was dreadfully slow.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:19 am

No, these links won't play outside the UK. Here is the explanation from the site:

BBC iPlayer wrote:Rights agreements mean that BBC iPlayer television programmes are only available to users to download or stream (Click to Play) in the UK. However, BBC Worldwide is working on an international version, which we will make available as soon as possible.

djm

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:27 pm

I had the utter pleasure of watching both, twice, today. Delightful.

Breaks my little heart that this is not going across the water..

Some lovely stuff there.and Willie Clancy telling lies..absolutely lovely.

Kudos to woodflute for posting the link..

It was my intention to be watching this last night..or the night before ..but after Denman strutted his stuff..well..
Slan,
D.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:34 pm

dubhlinn wrote:I had the utter pleasure of watching both, twice, today. Delightful.

Breaks my little heart that this is not going across the water..

There's gotta be a proxy-server somewhere you could download them through.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:53 am

I recorded 'em all on DVD but am clueless as to how that could help anyone except me to see them.

The harmonica programme that was on just before was terrific too.

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:01 am

The proxy thing was tried and failed.
Most proxies can't handle the speeds required by the player.

I managed to see the Chieftains programme despite the torrential rain.

Mukade

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:21 am

SteveShaw wrote:I recorded 'em all on DVD but am clueless as to how that could help anyone except me to see them. The harmonica programme that was on just before was terrific too.

You could send us all a copy of the DVD

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:40 am

I've never copied a DVD.

Will a copy I make in the UK work anywhere?

You've discovered my Achilles heel. Anything more technical than putting a new battery in my torch...

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:07 am

SteveShaw wrote:I've never copied a DVD. Will a copy I make in the UK work anywhere?

I was just kidding, really. I'm pretty impressed that you burned it in
the first place, what with your "handicap"

. But if you made the DVD
yourself, then there's probably no region set on the disc. The region is
a thing the studios put on the DVDs so they can control where the disc
can play.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:31 am

I've been mucking around with it for the last half-hour, and I've discovered that I can't play DVDs on my computer because, though I have a DVD drive, I haven't got a thing called a DVD encoder. I could buy one to download for a tenner, apparently, but then I wouldn't really want it for watching them on the computer, but for copying, which I don't think the encoder would enable me to do. I recorded the shows on a DVD recorder connected to the telly by the way.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:34 am

If you are on a Windows system (XP or above) then Windows sets the Region on your DVD player automatically and makes it very difficult for you to change the setting (unless you are very computer savvy and know how to hack it). However, certain Chinese-made DVD players (the real cheap ones) ignore the Region setting, and will play DVDs from just about anywhere. I have sent DVDs to France and they had no problems, and received DVDs from Ireland and had no problems.

So, yes, please rush me my free burned-by-Steve DVD. Enclosed please find two cereal box-tops and a 25-word testimony as to why I love Choco-Sugar-Bombs for breakfast.

djm

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:43 am

I think that regions are not my issue at this point. My PC just doesn't have the cojones at the moment.

taity · Post by **taity** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:58 am

whats the most used download programe iam sure it could end up there

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:04 am

I suppose if I had another DVD player I could plug into the DVD recorder next to the telly and copy it in real time. But I haven't got another DVD player, and I'm buggered if I'm buying one just so that you lot can all have free copies!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:48 am

SteveShaw wrote:I've been mucking around with it for the last half-hour, and I've discovered that I can't play DVDs on my computer because, though I have a DVD drive, I haven't got a thing called a DVD encoder.

I'm not following that at all. You only need an encoder if you are creating
a DVD. For playing a DVD, you need a decoder, and Windows Media Player
should do the job just fine, unless your DVD burner used some weird codec
like DIVX (which you can download free)...