Wha's the best way to rip videos from the BBC website? There's some vids I wanna keep from here:

 

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=Wimbledon%20Unplugged&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=

Are you talking about from the iPlayer?

 

I think its pretty much impenetrable... But if you ever work out how to do it, I'd love to know! :P

I thougt you could use Firefox as your web browser and right click on a page and save everything that's on that page, like jpg files and flv/swf videos etc?

Just found this, WM Capture. I've tried it on a few BBC iPlayer videos and it works really well. The trial only lets you rip 2mins worth of video at a time though - I don't know how much the full version costs:

 

http://www.wmrecorder.com/wm_capture.php

http://www.wmrecorder.com/

http://www.3things.be/internet/ripping-bbc-iplayer-streamed-video/

You just need something to record directly from your graphics card, which by-passes any copy protection on the video

Those videos are the latest(ish) attempt to stop ripping , they are in FLV format playing through a RTMP protocol , recording streaming video off your video card will also capture glitches as well but for keeping to watch later screen capture programs are the easiest way to go .

 

If you wish to download the videos - use Orbit Downloader , its freeware - read the instructions , I tried it on one of the Wimbledon videos and it worked fine , for some reason though my PC has got its codecs or associations in a tizzy , I had to rename the suffix from .flv to .wmv to make it play (although its a flv file) .

Thanks for the tip Rob, I'll download Orbit an have a go...

I`ll add another piece of advice I was given the other day about them concerning downloading this type of video , in the context of downloading with Orbit

 

Start Orbit

within Orbit start Grab++

Press play on the video you want

in the Grab++ screen it`ll come up with an entry defined as an FLV , tick its box and click Download

***Let the download finish before you stop the video playing in its window

 

The last step is apparently important .

Is it possible to save videos from Channel 4 On Demand too? The videos are downloaded as WMV files and are saved to your hard-drive, but they expire after 2 days. I think Orbit only works with videos actually on the internet - is there any programme that allows me to save 4OD vids or remove the expiry date, or would a screen grabber like WM Capture be best for that?

No idea if it works but I found a link to this -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeme2 supposed to strip off drm from wmvs