Windows 10: BBC iPlayer app on Surface pro 7

Hi all Im having trouble downloading BBC iPlayer onto my Surface pro 10. Can anyone help me on this.

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Unable to connect to BBC iPlayer

*Original Title: Connecting to BBC iplayer

I cannot connect to BBC iplayer even though I have an UK ip address. Did not have the issue with windows 7, but now I have installed Windows 10, BBC tells me I am not in UK. I can connect to ITV iplayer with no problems. Had to downgrade back to Windows
7.

Any suggestions, Microsoft could not help.

 

BBC iPlayer

Hi there

@cereberus.
@ess1.


use a very nice app quite legal called get_iplayer.
100% legal and will retrieve BBC iPlayer content without expiry dates. You have to be in UK (or UK VPN) for access to some BBC TV programmes and to get best quality Radio feeds.

get_iplayer Windows installation guide | get_iPlayer • Forums • Guides • Help


The best way to use it though is forget about any GUI.

Use it from the CLI --works also exactly the same on Linux.

for Radio type : get_iplayer --type=radio --pid=xxxxxxxxx
for TV type: get_iplayer --subtitles --pid=xxxxxxxx

(I like subtitles as some of the British accents get a bit "Wonky" if they are from outside London !!!!!).

To get PID simply start the standard BBC Iplayer app

You'll see something like this





Then the 8 alphanumeric number is the PID which is what you should use in the pid=parameter in the CLI.
In the above example it's the number after episode/ in the url of the screenshot but should be easily identifiable.
Expand the screenshot I've shown as the url probably isn't too clear on a lot of smaller monitors / tablets.Just click the image and use the + sign !!.

No need to logon ( i.e sign in) to the actual BBC Iplayer itself. Just use it to get the PID like I've shown above

Cheers
jimbo

 

BBC iplayer, ITV hub etc not installing on Surface pro.

I am I the process of setting up my Surface Pro 4. I have followed the links to the apps for BBC iplayer and ITV hub but when pressing the "get app" button, nothing happens. Its the same in the three browsers I have tried. can someone please let me know
why I cannot download these apps? I have also not been able to find these apps in the Microsoft app store. Do they actually exist?

Thanks