Mac install with Homebrew

[dinkypumpkin]

Members of the black turtleneck brigade -

There was a thread a few months ago covering installation of get_iplayer 
dependencies on OS X using Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). 
  I have been belatedly inspired to add get_iplayer itself to the 
Homebrew universe.  I wasn't able to get it past the gatekeepers into 
the main Homebrew repository (always a long shot), but that turned out 
to be a good thing.  The installation and usage details are here:

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/homebrew-get_iplayer/wiki

The current version applies the recent live TV/Olympics patches.

Why would you want to use this?  If you already use Homebrew you might 
appreciate integrating get_iplayer with the rest of your packages.  If 
not, there are a few other things you might like:  1) For fresh 
installations, Homebrew takes care of building and installing up-to-date 
versions of all get_iplayer dependencies;  2) Homebrew makes it easy to 
update from release to "HEAD" versions of get_iplayer in order to 
incorporate recent patches; 3) The get_iplayer package includes a script 
to launch the Web PVR as on Windows, if that's your cup of tea.

Why would you not want to use this?  If you already have a satisfactory 
means of maintaining get_iplayer on your Mac, there is no need to 
switch.  And if you're uncomfortable using the command line, Homebrew 
might not be to your taste.  You might also be nervous about building 
software from source, which Homebrew does.  However, as you'll see in 
the instructions Homebrew wraps the build process pretty effectively so 
that you don't need to know the details.