How to download videos from BBC iPlayer

Last Update: August 22, 2022

From now on you can bring your favorite collection of programmes and TV shows from BBC iPlayer with you when you are offline: on the beach in a remote island or when flying.
How to do that? Simple just download and use our free tool. It's really easy.

Go to BBC iPlayer website and search for your favorite programme or TV show, that you want to watch it later, copy the video link and paste it into the input box from ChrisPC VideoTube Downloader , press the "+" button or the "Paste and Add to the list" button and the link is added to your download list.

Before the first download please select your download/output folder on your laptop/PC in the input field "Download Folder", you either can type the full path or just click on the folder icon and select your folder.

You added one or more links to your favorite online videos, now is time to check the power of ChrisPC Free VideoTube Downloader.

The software lets you select the video download quality for each BBC iPlayer video. You can choose between different video bitrate values. You can also download the subtitles/closed captions, if available, for your favorite TV series.

If you want to put your videos on your iPad or convert the videoclip to a high-quality MP3 file for your MP3 player or other video formats, you just have to enable the "Convert downloaded videos to" and select the format you want your Vimeo video to be converted. Some of the conversion formats are available only with the Add-on Package.

Using the blue/download/down-arrow icon you can start the download and convert process for a selected video from the list. Or you can start the download and convert process for all videos from the list by pressing the button "Process all files from list". Progress is shown per each video downloaded and overall, in the statics box from the right side below.

ChrisPC Free VideoTube Downloader is a freeware software for non-commercial use.

For users that need more features than the ones we offer for free, there is the posibility to activate our Add-on Package for ChrisPC VideoTube Downloader. The Add-on Package is activated by purchasing a license fee that will remove any limitations of the free version. For more details please visit this page.