BBC IPlayer

[Martin Wheatley]

People will have noticed that Radio 1 and 2 progs have been
moved from the Play Again player to the new IPlayer
They soon to be followed by all the other BBC radio stations
They are in Flash format and not easily downloadable
except in real time.  I have not been successful in finding the URLs
of the Flash streams

RealAudio links can still be accessed.  Go to The Iplayer and
find the page with the prog you want and click on the
Text Only link.  There is a link part way down the page to the
Real Audio (you get a small RAM file which contains the
old links inside.
You have to go to the IPlayer for this because if you go
to the normal prog page and click on the play back link you
just get the Flash Player and not the full IPlayer page

Bit rates for the Real Audio streams will be improved after
the Olympics are out of the way


martinw