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I've posted this method, which combines RTMPDUMP with JavaScript, because I was asked - by PM - to suggest an easy method for choosing between the 9 different streams the BBC server provides for each tv show available on iPlayer.

For television, the BBC server offers 5 different bitrates, 4 of which are available from two different suppliers.

My method makes it easy to specify the bitrate you want and the server you want.

Most of the download methods available online don't give the user any choice at all as to bitrate or supplier, but merely capture a default version, determined either by the download program being used or by the iplayer software.

I'm not aware of any other solution which gives the user complete control over which bitrate and supplier to use.

A lower bitrate can be useful if you have a slow broadband connection or only a dial-up connection, and the size of the downloaded file can be different - even for the same bitrate - depending upon which supplier is chosen.


Although this thread has discussed a particular version of RTMPDUMP, using Windows 7 I've not noticed that any version of RTMPDUMP is better or worse than any other. I've mainly used v2.1d as it happens.