The everyday BBC iplayer junkie can simply go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and listen to his/her favorite program. Here’s how you can download your favorite show, listen to it offline. or take it with you on your music player.
The gist of it is: visit the show in your web browser and view the page source. Then look for a url with “.ram” in it. Then all you need to do is to download that file. Once you have the Real media file, you can re-encode it to any format.
I’ve spelled it out for you:
Step 1: Visit the program in your browser
Step 2: View the page source (Page > View Source on IE8)
Step 3: Look for the words “.ram” (without quotes, of course)
Step 4: Copy the URL you just found
Step 5: Download that file
There are many ways to do this. The easiest is to download www.flashget.com and use it to download the RAM file.
Now that you have a collection of shows (RAM files), you want to take it with you. Burn it to a cd, your ipod or mp3 player. If you have a player that can play or stream RAM files, you’re done. If you dont, you need to re-encode your show. Again, there are many free ways to do it, I would recommend: Magic Ram to MP3 Converter.