Great news people – a year after the launch of the highly successful BBC iPlayer comes the announcement that the much anticipated BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac is finally available for download!
The new version of the BBC iPlayer Desktop launched in Beta today uses Adobe Air meaing that the application is platform netural and will run on Linux and Macs as well as Windows computers.
This is great news for Mac and Linux users as it means that instead of just catching up on the latest 7 days worth of BBC TV and Radio from your web browser by streaming content, you can now download your favourite TV shows and watch them offline for up-to-30 days!
Now if only they could get together with Apple and enable us to transfer the downloaded TV shows to our iPods and iPhones that would be the icing on the cake. Sadly this isn’t going to happen any time soon as Apple doesn’t license their DRM to third parties.
Download the new BBC iPlayer Desktop from the BBC.
The BBC iPlayer Desktop Dock icon as seen on a Mac:
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Am I a complete idiot!? Went to the BBC download site to install BBC iPlayer Desktop. The site says ‘click the instal button’ Where is the button! no sign of it on my AL iMac
Peter – There should be a link after the 2 paras of text.. It will prompt to enable Flash, and then to ask to download Adobe Air. It should then run through the install.
You can use the get_iplayer perl script to snag shows and add them to your iTunes library. Works a treat for me.