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Title: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Olympia5776 on 09 January 2011, 11:46:53
Although now living over here in Ireland I have a UK Sky system and enjoy watching UK TV all the time .
Recorded a programme on BBC4 Friday night ,Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers , which is a four hour documentry on the band .
I tranfered the HDD recording to disc last night only to find that the Sky box was set to go into standby after 2 hours  >:( so I've only got half the programme.  :'(
Anyway , I can't get i player over here as the site recognises that I'm not in UK and blocks access.
I've tried the proxy server route but not had any success and all my reletives back in Scotland aren't PC literate enough to do what I want.
Can anyone do me a huge favour and record the programme on to disc from PC and send it over ?
I'll gladly pay all costs incurred .
This is the second disaster I've had with this programme as when it was first broadcast I recorded it onto our new HDD recorder and then promptly erased it when I was editing the 6 hour recording down to the four I wanted .. :-[
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00scr6s/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_Runnin_Down_a_Dream/
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Plomien on 09 January 2011, 12:10:39
have you tried torrents?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&q=Tom+Petty+%26+the+Heartbreakers+bbc+torrent&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB359GB360&ie=UTF-8#sclient=psy&hl=en&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB359GB360&q=Tom+Petty+and+the+Heartbreakers:+Runnin%27+Down+a+Dream+torrent&aq=f&aqi=g1g-o1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=19bff151c0ba26e
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: tunnie on 09 January 2011, 12:17:13
suspect this thread is border line, as we cannot really discuss this. But Google iPlayer ouside UK, there are many methods for watching it in Ireland  ;)

I used to have a method of downloading raw .avi files straight from iPlayer, but the BBC has recently changed the iPhone iPlayer to use an HTTPS connection for part of the process. This requires the client to offer an Apple-signed client certificate as part of the connection. This has always been the case for the iPad version, but the iPhone change is new.

So its either torrents, or research the by-pass for geographical constraints  :y
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Mysteryman on 09 January 2011, 12:20:04
And, of course, set your sky box not to go into standby after two hours.
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 January 2011, 13:04:40
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And, of course, set your sky box not to go into standby after two hours.

That's a total joke to appease the "greenies" anyway. My Sky box consumes exactly the same amount of energy in standby as it does when on. ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Olympia5776 on 09 January 2011, 17:22:30
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And, of course, set your sky box not to go into standby after two hours.

I did that after I retrieved the remote from the bottom of the hall................. ::)
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: freecall666 on 09 January 2011, 20:12:37
dongels can get it any were as its mobile,,,
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: tunnie on 09 January 2011, 20:20:38
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dongels can get it any were as its mobile,,,

Errr nope! Not by a long shot!

Your still in the UK, on a UK network, with a UK IP, with traffic going through a UK gateway (the mobile operators)
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: freecall666 on 09 January 2011, 20:32:21
my neighbour is over there at mo and he has no trubble getting iplayer... on 3.
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: tunnie on 09 January 2011, 20:39:25
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my neighbour is over there at mo and he has no trubble getting iplayer... on 3.


So they are in Ireland then, there for roaming on Irish Network  ::) not UK!! Grrr can we have a face plant smiley?
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: PhilRich on 09 January 2011, 20:41:37
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my neighbour is over there at mo and he has no trubble getting iplayer... on 3.


So they are in Ireland then, there for roaming on Irish Network  ::) not UK!! Grrr can we have a face plant smiley?






Calm down Mark, it's bad for your blood pressure mate! ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 January 2011, 20:42:50
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/bash.gif)

Any use? ;)
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: tunnie on 09 January 2011, 20:43:31
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(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/bash.gif)

Any use? ;)

Excellent *bookmarks  :y
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: Olympia5776 on 09 January 2011, 22:29:41
Just to say that our good friend Zoo-Lou has come to my rescue with a copy which will be winging it's way over to me tomorrow .

Thank you Sir   :y
Title: Re: BBC iPlayer big favour needed ...............
Post by: zirk on 10 January 2011, 01:19:59
Onspeed.com the web accelerater, 3g/HSDPA traffic data reducer, what ever you want to call it, gets me pretty much everything I need worldwide in my travels.
 ;)