Rozel

As another newbie like yourself the only part of your quedstion i can help with is re the iplayer URL not known and the reson why i can help is that when i first tried i was doing the same as you:

when in xterm and wanting to download you have to have the exact URL of the programme you want, similiar to:-

$ iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._18_Episode_2/

you do not type in

$ iplayer URL

the above URL i have posted is not complete but as a test you will find it further back in this thread on a post by another - it does work - its what i used to test my install

Hope this makes sense and helps