6/20/2023 0 Comments Download get iplayer automator![]() ITV subtitle files are now in WebVTT format.No more “Show not available” for ITV programs! (#95) ITV downloads are now implemented by fetching the m3u8 playlist and handing it off to ffmpeg to stream and save the file.You can also select programs from a search and add them to the queue. ![]() They are just downloaded and left alone next to the video file.The TV licence only permits you to use equipment to receive broadcast TV programmes. It is not a licence to record and store those programmes. Nor is it relevant whether the programme has already been broadcast or not.Īctually it is. It's all about 'live TV' which is where some people fall foul of the law. For example, that link i posted is not in the category of 'live tv' (see the TVL legal definition of that below). You do not need a TV licence to watch programmes via iPlayer, 4od or any other 'catch up' TV. Yes you have to declare NLN (No Licence Needed) to TVL and yes they will have you jumping through hoops.because in their crazy mind everyone has a television receiver. The last word is important as a television only becomes 'a receiver' when connected to an aerial or dish. TVL will check to see that it isn't.Ī friend of mine has been hassled by crackpot TVL inspectors in the past who remain convinced he must have a television. He doesn't own one and hasn't for the past 15 years now, but that still doesn't stop them from turning up. He's even invited them in his house, which he doesn't have to, to search for the non-existent television receiver. They go away happy and content.for a few months and then rock up once again. I used to 'download' the Top20 and a variety of pop music programmes using this identical machine. Though a cheap brand, any teenager who had one was considered 'rich'. Of course that was over half a century ago now and we've moved on.at least in technology. Mentioning the copyright issue in this particular case is ludicrous as 1) the programme has already been transmitted and 2) i have a licence as required under section 363 of the 2003 Communications Act. Otherwise you'd be banning the sale of PVR's and DVD/RW's. Whether the programme has been transmitted or not, the copyright still remains in force. The act of airing a programme does nothing to change that. You have a licence to view it's not a licence to record and keep in perpetuity. I thought it was well established that recording TV is actually illegal. So by extension the process of time shifting for consumption at a more convenient time is also illegal, but is allowed in practise on the basis that the content won't be kept permanently after it has been watched. Hence PVRs, VCRs, DVDRs and their storage media exist in a bubble of tolerance.Īll the above being said, there are examples of programmes that were either erased from tape by the broadcaster or simply never recorded because they were live broadcasts where the only surviving example has been found in a home recordist's archive.
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