Is there any technical reason which would stop Get_iPlayer from being ported to the N9? It could handle the h.264 streams intended for the iPhone, couldn't it?

It's a perl script. It doesn't need porting, it works fine!

It has a number of prereqs:
libwww-perl (which in turn depends on liburi-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libhtml-tree-perl and libhtml-tagset-perl) all of which can be got from:
http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/harmattan/free/

and rtmpdump (which can be obtained from):
https://build.pub.meego.com/package/...attan_standard

After that, just download the latest release from:
ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/
unpack it and it works fine.

woot!

Update: I should have mentioned that I used --raw to get the files without transcoding them and they work in the normal "Vodeos" app fine.

Wow thanks Jonquark.

Can you confirm a few things?

1. We need to download the files: libwww-perl, liburi-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libhtml-tree-perl and libhtml-tagset-perl

2. https://build.pub.meego.com/package/...attan_standard

3 ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/

Where do we put these and how do you unpack the last file?

Sorry for all the q's!

Following these instructions should probably not be done by anyone that needs them - installing random packages on your device and running commands as root may brick your device. I certainly take no responsibility for anything here. I have not tested the commands, just typed them into this window.

0) Enable developer mode and install wget by installing the Utilities part of the developer mode part of the settings menu
1) Open a terminal and type the following commands:
a) cd MyDocs
b) mkdir get_iplayer
c) cd get_iplayer
d) wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/...o1+0m6_all.deb
e) wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/...+0m6_armel.deb
f) wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/...3.18-1_all.deb
g) wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/...3.04-1_all.deb
h) wget http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/pool/...o1+0m6_all.deb
i) wget http://repo.pub.meego.com//home:/rzr....9-1_armel.deb

2) Now you have the prereqs, install them. In the terminal type:
a) devel-su
(password is rootme)
b) cd /home/user/MyDocs/get_iplayer
c) dpkg -i *deb
d) exit
(to leave the root shell)

3)
a) cd ~/MyDocs/get_iplayer
b) wget ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_ipla...er-2.80.tar.gz
c) gunzip get_iplayer-2.80.tar.gz
d) tar -xvf get_iplayer-2.80.tar

4) Now use it....
perl ~/MyDocs/get_iplayer/get_iplayer-2.80/get_iplayer -h
(for help)
or with --raw -g <url> to download an URL

5) setup an alias so you can use it with a few keystrokes (but get this far first)

Superb, thanks Jon, Ill give it a shot. I can remember using this on my N900 now.