1. The quick solution to accessing RealPlayer files in the new BBC
iPlayer is to disable JavaScript. Then close all open browser windows.

Then go to the relevent BBC iPlayer page: it will now display a
warning that you need to enable JavaScript in order to view a Flash
file, and will display a link to an alternative (RealPlayer) file.

Play the first few seconds of that file, then retrieve the .ram file
from your browser's cache. With Internet Explorer, that cache is
located at "C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files".


2. Alternatively, click the button on the iPlayer marked "Dial-up
modem version: OFF". It will change to read "Dial-up modem version:
ON" (and display the Real Player logo), and will play a Real Player
dial-up stream.

Details are here: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_programmes/56k_real


3. Alternatively, to play a RealPlayer version instead of Flash, click
on the "Text Only" link that appears at the top-left of most BBC web
pages, which displays a text version of the page. Scroll down this
until you see the link to the show you want: usually marked 'Listen to
latest show'. Clicking on it will play a Real Player version.

Replacing the "http://" element of any BBC webpage URL with "http://
www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl/0005/" will activate
a text version of that page.


4. Alternatively, here are some locations of the available Radio 4
RealPlayer files:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml

http://dave.org.uk/streams/Radio%204.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/audiolist.shtml


And the BBC Radio 7 RealPlayer links are available at these locations:

http://dave.org.uk/streams/BBC%207.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:00:02 -0700 (PDT), Ed 
wrote:

>4. Alternatively, here are some locations of the available Radio 4
>RealPlayer files:
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
>
>http://dave.org.uk/streams/Radio%204.html
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/audiolist.shtml
>
>
>And the BBC Radio 7 RealPlayer links are available at these locations:
>
>http://dave.org.uk/streams/BBC%207.html
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/

I find Beebotron at http://beebotron.timeforabrew.com/ really useful
for direct links to downloading the rtsp links.

"Ed"  wrote in message
news:44884689-0d8d-4280-aa28-151437637b4c@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com
> 1. The quick solution to accessing RealPlayer files in the new BBC
> iPlayer is to disable JavaScript. Then close all open browser 
> windows.
>
> Then go to the relevent BBC iPlayer page: it will now display a
> warning that you need to enable JavaScript in order to view a Flash
> file, and will display a link to an alternative (RealPlayer) file.
>
> Play the first few seconds of that file, then retrieve the .ram file
> from your browser's cache. With Internet Explorer, that cache is
> located at "C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files".


This is a quicker method:

Right-click on the BBC iPlayer page of the programme you want to 
listen to, select View Source if you're using Firefox or whatever teh 
equivalent is in IE. In the window that opens with the source code in 
it, go to Edit > Find, and search for "ram" in the source. Copy the 
URL found. Open Real Player, go to File > Open, paste the URL in and 
press enter.



-- 
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/incompetent_adoption_of_dab.htm

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
> "Ed"  wrote in message
> news:44884689-0d8d-4280-aa28-151437637b4c@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com
>> 1. The quick solution to accessing RealPlayer files in the new BBC
>> iPlayer is to disable JavaScript. Then close all open browser
>> windows.
>>
>> Then go to the relevent BBC iPlayer page: it will now display a
>> warning that you need to enable JavaScript in order to view a Flash
>> file, and will display a link to an alternative (RealPlayer) file.
>>
>> Play the first few seconds of that file, then retrieve the .ram file
>> from your browser's cache. With Internet Explorer, that cache is
>> located at "C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files".
>
>
> This is a quicker method:
>
> Right-click on the BBC iPlayer page of the programme you want to
> listen to, select View Source if you're using Firefox or whatever teh
> equivalent is in IE. In the window that opens with the source code in
> it, go to Edit > Find, and search for "ram" in the source. Copy the
> URL found. Open Real Player, go to File > Open, paste the URL in and
> press enter.

Apart from the fact that the iPlayer uses Flash and not Real, that is ;-)

-- 
Carl Waring
DigiGuide:
Full: http://getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=1495
Web-based: http://getdigiguide.com/?p=3&r=1495

Shameless self-promotion here, but having had the same frustrations
myself I've cobbled up a site at http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk
which originally allowed anyone to input an iPlayer Programme ID (PID)
and get the RealAudio link served back to you.

More recently I've mashed that up with the new schedule data that
backstage.bbc.co.uk and the Radio Labs have been releasing to provide
a browsable schedule with links to RealAudio streams where available.
If you visit from a mobile should should automatically be taken to a
'lite' version of the site which I built so I can use my N95
wirelessly to take advantage of Listen Again.

Now the Olympics are over and the worker bees at the BBC can get back
to work, I'm expecting to be able to add genre and alphabetical
browsing in the near future...

All comments and suggestions appreciated - I hope people find the site
of some use.

Andrew