State of play

Firstly - Air Sharing is still free !

With each upgrade this app is getting better and better. I know a lot of you like having as many apps as possible on the iPhone, but for me finding the ones that will do as many functions as possible is the key.
So I'll continue to support this app for some time to come. Mainly due to its ability to view video and audio in the same package. Where MxTube (at the moment) is falling down is the screen estate given to video descriptions. This is OK for occasional youtube vids, but with multiple episodes of the same tv series, they are hard to differentiate (not to mention the xml cludgery to get the videos listed).
All in all, the ipl2iph script will only be updated for "air sharing" for now.

Secondly - The SUDO problem.

Was looking to make the scripts run as mobile and added some support for this. Unfortunately I couldnt get all the functionality I wanted as mobile without adding an entry to the SUDOERS file. This was too much of a risk (both for security and the filesystem) for the average / inexperienced user. Also the SUDO package was no longer installed by default by Cydia, so some new users experienced problems initially.
So the answer for now is that SUDO has been written out of the scripts, making the change of user to root, to run the scripts essential.

Thirdly - BBC Radio arrives on iPhone

Some of you may be aware that the iPlayer website now serves radio to the iPhone. In conjuntion with the Beebhack team I / we looked into the process and Paul Battley made a slight adjustment to his script (iplayer-dl) to faciltate the mp3 downloads.
So just visit the entry for the desired radio programme on the iPlayer site, hit refresh and run the script as per usual.
If you havent updated iplayer-dl in a while - using winscp / finder etc. go to /usr/bin/ and delete iplayer-dl. On next run of my script it will be automatically updated to the newest version.
Adjusting the script to make the mp3's go to a radio folder is next on my todo list.

Lastly - Accessing BBC iplayer from outside the UK.

I get a fair amount of questions regarding this issue. As a BBC licence payer I value the service the BBC provides but dont always agree with their distribution methods. But I have from time to time, been known to download BBC content from abroad.

Best Method - UK Based VPN, without a doubt the easiest and most reliable. Unless your employer provides such a service, you are going to have to part with cash for this. Personally I pay about $10 a month for a 3 way vpn access i.e UK , US & Canada.

UK Based Proxy - works ok, but if its a free proxy it will either be slow or unavailable a lot of the time. My script will work with a UK based proxy (but you will have to dig inside the script and comment/uncomment the correct lines).

The download speed through the proxy method can be increased though. After some intense experimentation whilst outside the UK, it has been proven that the BBC doesn't geo-check the download stage, only the authentication stage.

Looking for beta testers on this method - comment below to sign up - will review on a case by case basis. I've seen people charging for the information above, which I find abhorrent as they donate nothing back to the BBC.

Anyway newest version of ipl2iph - for "air sharing"

Cheers