I love the BBC's iPlayer, which lets people in Britain download television and radio programmes up to a week after their broadcast. But the service has suffered a very frustrating problem since early December. It will only download the 'ident' film that appears before the programme.
I've spent ages looking through the BBC's website in search of a solution, without success. It appears to be a digital rights issue – perhaps caused by one of Microsoft's flood of updates? And it applies to our Windows Vista and XP computers. For now, our only option is to stream programmes rather than download them. Streaming works very well, but it means you have to watch shows within seven days of broadcast. (By contrast, if you download, you have 30 days to watch them.)
If anyone knows how to solve this, please let me know!
Ertblog 
Hi, I’m not sure what the problem is, but I presume you’re using the Windows BBC iPlayer Download Manager software.
There’s replacement software – BBC iPlayer Desktop – which in beta at the moment but works pretty well. More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/introducing_iplayer_deskto.html
To get it, sign up for iPlayer Labs, and when you next click a programme download link you’ll be prompted to install the software.
Thanks very much, Dan, I’ll give it a go.