BBC Iplayer Downloader Plugin - Beta + Support

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My only suggestion would be to find a way of downloading the HIGH QUALITY version of the program as opposed to downloading the lower quality MOV.

The bbc appear to offer these as direct downloads so you don't even need the iplayer download manager installed on the PC it seems:

http://directdl.iplayer.bbc.co.uk/window...102230.wmv

I hope this is of use.

The reason you cannot use these direct downloads are because they are protected by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. This means that the media files have been encrypted as they are exclusively for the use of windows media player's inbuilt DRM decoder/engine. When you play the file WMP is actually decrypting it on the fly.

To see this in action try to play that download file in a player like VLC or Media player classic (i.e anything other than windows media player) and they will look corrupted or likely not play at all.