BBC iPlayer and FairUse4WM
Not really much to say, I downloaded only one episode of Top Gear, since Spooks wasn’t available lol. I read about FairUse4WM being able to strip the DRM from it, so first I tried playing it in WMP 11, it worked fine, then I tried it in VLC, and it came out all distorted.
I then downloaded FairUse4WM (for testing only 
), and stripped the DRM from the downloaded episode, it only took around a minute, and Volia!!!!, it worked in VLC.
Anyway, I don’t plan on keeping the episode, I’m gonna watch it and delete it anyway, just as the BBC intended, but the only after when I feel bothered to watch it.
They tell you the first time you *open* the video, the clock starts ticking for the countdown to deletion after 7 days, which is alright, but it can be problematic if you don’t have time to watch it.
Another annoying thing is you *have* to use IE to log into the beta section, otherwise it throws an error 
, it took me a good 5 mins wandering why I couldn’t log in. 
I am using Firefox with IE tabs installed which tricks it into thinking its IE. However you need to navigate to iplayer (if you click on the link from the software it opens in IE)
Jack said this on January 17th, 2008 at 7:00 pm Permalink