Any support maybe for videos from the BBC News site?

sarakitty1 at ymail.com sarakitty1 at ymail.com
Tue Aug 14 13:56:05 EDT 2012


Hi, I really love your program, I was actually going to go back and save a couple olympics things for posterity, then I noticed they have already removed stuff from previous days on the site, the bastards :(

I was wondering do you plan any support for videos from the BBC News site like:
http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19241028 ?

I notice Flashgot which I use with Firefox for Youtube videos ( http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/flashgot ) doesn't have any option to download with the BBC site ones either :(

I worked out with the sites from BBC's natural world site, they add a PID at the end of the address as a URL Anchor when you click on a video like
http://bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats/Reef#p00n6tdg and http://bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats/Reef#p006rxzj or http://bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Ant#p00jpspl etc that you can then look up on iPlayer like http://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00n6tdg or download on Get_iPlayer by putting into it get_iplayer --pid p00n6tdg --modes flashhd

But because the ones on BBC News don't have a PID I'm not really sure what to do, I suppose they are probably stored in FLV form too like Youtube and maybe some kind of method similar to what Flashgot uses would be better? I looked in the source code on that olympics video page and found http://playlists.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19241028A/playlist.sxml has a unique ID of 19241028 but not much else, the player file is http://emp.bbci.co.uk/emp/releases/worldwide/revisions/749603_749269_749444_5/749603_749269_749444_5_emp.swf I opened that in Sothink SWF Decompiler and have put the source code on http://sendspace.com/file/v1ap54 but I don't really know what to do with any of it because I'm not a programmer :(

Thanks for reading and sorry for the longness



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