Someone has worked out how to provide a direct mp4 for a given show on iplayer: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-ipl...p4/?p=b009gf52
but I've been unable to play the stream with mplayer or media player so far.

(link originally from this post http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p...&postcount=120)