Hi, Everyone.

I'm abroad for a few weeks (and will be untill the end of TA) and, as you know, no IPlayer outside the UK

Is there a link for a live streaming for the BBC or a blessed soul who uploads the shows on youtube (question mark - sorry, keyboard not configured properly :s)

I heard of something called "Justin TV", it seems to be a link for a live streaming but Im not sure about it.

Please...Help...

Tvfreeload dot com forum has all the episodes, as do torrents.

Streaming/downloading are probably the best options.


But just in case, do you have access to a Virtual Private Network? A lot of businesses and organisations use them. I've used mine when abroad to access iPlayer. It seems to trick the internet elves into thinking you're in the UK.

You could always use rtmpdump and get_iplayer, if you're in a country where it isn't illegal to do so.
Last edited by Jam35 : 27-05-2009 at 11:05

N43, thanks for the tip, I'll have a look!

Bojangles, unfortunately, I'm not abroad on business but for personal reasons. I've to confess that I had never heard of private network before. I googled it and I came accross this:
https://my-private-network.co.uk/bbc...FQKhkwodmAl83Q
Is that what you were talking about? Is it safe? Can you recommend a specific one?

Jam, I don't know what those things are. Are they any safe?
Could you post links, please?

Thanks, everyone

go to eztv.it and you can download a torrent from there. they do the uk apprentice too, you should be able to watch it a few hours after it being aired.



As long as you pay your license fee, its not piracy. Surely?

rtmpdump (and its component get_iplayer) used to until very recently be hosted at Sourceforge. Adobe decided to play the DMCA card. Google is your friend for finding rtmpdump now, and annoyingly there are two versions of the latest version going around (one with get_iplayer and one without).

Technically speaking, they're safe -- they simply download the Flash video behind all the wrappers to your hard disk, which is what Adobe got so upset about.

Yes, that is a VPN, just like the ones I use.

The networks I'm connected to are ones from university and an EU organisation I worked for, so unfortunately you can't sign up to them as such. As I say, I thought in case you already were signed up to something like that, you can get around the problem.

But there is no reason however why you can't sign up to a VPN (like the one you seem to have discovered) as long as they let you(/make you pay for the privilege!). They usually exist just to give members of businesses or organisations access to their intranet and "members only" areas, but as it routes through a UK server, it treats you as though you're firmly in Blighty. I do not think there is anything less safe about them than any other service provider or portal. Certainly the ones I use are not, but then they are highly secure connections anyway.

It would be quicker than torrenting, but I guess at least that is free and you could be more certain of its safety.

I'm sure that hasn't made anything any clearer! I've been skipping on coffee today, hence the rambling away.

You still need a UK registered IP address as that is checked by the streaming server, and if you had that you could watch it normally anyway, so its all a bit of an irrelevance...

That's what I thought too, it's just something to trick the Iplayer to think you've Flash installed.

Bojangles, thanks, it was helpful, don't think it wasn't

Costs money but may be useful in the future, anyone used the Slingbox?

If you use linux, try out ssh port forwarding

That only works in the UK, I'm afraid...