It works by literally capturing what’s on your screen (or just an area of your screen). If you can’t get recording to work, you can turn to “Capturing” which has the benefit of working 100% of the time and quality is good too.

You can get hold hold of the older version 4 (which personally I prefer – the user interface is simpler) when you purchase a license key for version 5 (if you have any trouble though, raise a support ticket with Applian and they’ll look after you). If you’re overseas and using a VPN or Proxy server to watch iPlayer, you’ll have to install and use the older version 4 (like I showed in my videos) to use this software properly. Note that in my videos, I’m using the older version 4 of the software but there’s a new version 6 released a little while back – either way, both work just fine! The equivalent for Mac users is “ Jaksta” (requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Intel processor). The software I used in these videos is called Replay Capture Suite which you can get from here: You will need to use the capturing method to record programmes from ITV and Channel 4: And the second video shows you the “capturing” method (4 mins) from ‘Hulu’ (more or less, the US equivalent of iPlayer). Take a look at these couple of videos demonstrating how I go about recording (please wait a few seconds…, they are fairly large videos and…for iPad / iPhone users, just tap on the black empty box and the videos should start playing).īelow are two videos: the first one (8 mins) gives you a quick demo of “recording” a TV or radio programme from iPlayer. Recording is better than capturing because the quality is better: it works great with iPlayer but not places like ITV or Channel 4 because the systems block people trying to download their programmes in the ‘background’ (but don’t worry, they won’t cut you off from watching the programme in your web browser….). In a nutshell, you’ve got two ways to record iPlayer or any other similar service : either ‘ recording‘ or ‘ capturing‘ it. So when I’m travelling, I don’t have to lump DVDs around, nor pay Hotel Internet charges or any on-demand movies, or get stuck with a News Channel in a Foreign Language!Īll you need is some software that can ‘grab’ the video that comes into your computer via the Internet (known as “streaming” video). I have literally hundreds of my favourite BBC programmes on my external hard drive.

In other words, how to turn your computer into a digital video recorder. Here’s a simple way of watching anything you want anytime and, without those annoying time limits. Create Your Personal Online Video Collection

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