[ubuntu-uk] Anyway of downloading Iplayer?

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 07 February 2008 11:50:36 Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:00:22AM +0000, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> >> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box
> >
> > My Freeview box (Humax 9200T) has an "odd" disk layout that isn't easily
> > mountable on Linux. YMMV.
>
> Yeah - having thought about this, a much simpler option is just to buy a
> supported Freeview USB stick and install MythTV.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices#Supported_DVB-T_USB
>_Devices

You don't need to install MythTV, I'm using a 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/AVerTV_DVB-T_Volar USB Stick I bought in 
Maplin with Kaffeine. Works pretty well and you can even record from more 
than one channel if they happen to be on the same multiplex.