BBC iPlayer 4K (WC 2026)

[pretty again]

Hi! I need help getting 4K videos from BBC iPlayer.

I've done some research and realized that extracting 4K videos from iPlayer isn't that easy.

I'd like to get the World Cup matches. They're all expired and will be deleted soon.

Since these files will be very large, I'm not asking for help downloading them. I'll just need ready-made links that I can paste into the CMD console (via DRM downloader + using N_m3u8DL-RE). If I understand correctly, this option is possible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058dmk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-france-v-iraq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4k5/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-panama-v-croatia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-morocco-v-haiti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4kf/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-czech-r...ublic-v-mexico
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zm/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-south-a...-v-south-korea

Let's try these links first, maybe it won't even work.

[gwe202]

Hi! I need help getting 4K videos from BBC iPlayer.

I've done some research and realized that extracting 4K videos from iPlayer isn't that easy.

I'd like to get the World Cup matches. They're all expired and will be deleted soon.

Since these files will be very large, I'm not asking for help downloading them. I'll just need ready-made links that I can paste into the CMD console (via DRM downloader + using N_m3u8DL-RE). If I understand correctly, this option is possible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058dmk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-france-v-iraq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4k5/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-panama-v-croatia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-morocco-v-haiti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4kf/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-czech-r...ublic-v-mexico
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zm/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-south-a...-v-south-korea

Let's try these links first, maybe it won't even work.

Try with Vinetrimmer https://github.com/n0stal6ic/VT-PR
And this code is poetry run vt dl "episode"

I don´t know if this really works, because i can´t have a TV license of BBC

[pretty again]

Try with Vinetrimmer https://github.com/n0stal6ic/VT-PR
And this code is poetry run vt dl "episode"

I don´t know if this really works, because i can´t have a TV license of BBC

I can't seem to install this program...
Are there any other options?

[YmFzZTY0]

Hi! I need help getting 4K videos from BBC iPlayer.

I've done some research and realized that extracting 4K videos from iPlayer isn't that easy.
.

You have done zero research or you would have discovered the BBC Iplayer is DRM free.

You can download 4K or any other resolution with:
yt-dlp
get_iplayer
vinetrimmer
unshackle
N_m3u8dl-RE
plus others

These VODs are not available in 4K either.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058dmk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-france-v-iraq - 720p
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4k5/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-panama-v-croatia -1080p
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zk/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-morocco-v-haiti - 1080p
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4kf/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-czech-republic-v-mexico -1080p
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y4zm/fifa-world-cup-2026-group-stage-south-africa-v-south-korea -1080p

To download the 1st one with N_m3u8dl-RE.exe, with mkvmerge.exe in the same folder (or in your PATH) :

N_m3u8DL-RE "http://vod-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net/uspb/auth/vod/piff_abr_l2v_hd/dfe8b8-l0058dml/vf_l0058dml_5153ceb4-dfaa-43e8-a901-c4ca1166cd42.ism/hls/master.m3u8" --header "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0" --header "Referer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/" -sv best -sa best --save-name "France vs Iraq" -mt -M format=mkv:muxer=mkvmerge

[pretty again]

These VODs are not available in 4K either.

I can easily download videos from BBC iPlayer in 720p and 1080p – no problem.
I specifically need 4K. I think I mentioned that in my first post.

I don't have a TV and can't check, but I read that people can watch these recordings on a TV in 4K.

[YmFzZTY0]

You can watch live matches in 4K but not VOD.

I also think I specifically said "These VODs are not available in 4K either."

I have shown the max resolutions now available for these.

2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: Video (1):
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: └─ VID | M3U | [H.264, SDR, 1080p] | 1920x1080 @ 12000 kb/s, 50.000 FPS | 11.65 GiB | Unencrypted
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: Audio (1):
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: └─ AUD | M3U | [AAC] | 2.0 | 128 kb/s | 127.26 MiB | Unencrypted | [en] English | [Original]
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: Subtitles (2):
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: ├─ SUB | URL | [TTML] | [en-GB] English British | [Original] | (Stripped)
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: └─ SUB | URL | [TTML] | [en-GB] English British | SDH | [Original]
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: Chapter (1):
2026-06-26 14:37:11 [I] Tracks: └─ CHP | TXT | [01] | 02:19:04.000 | Credits

[pretty again]

You can watch live matches in 4K but not VOD.

You're right, thanks for your reply.
Can you clarify another option for me? Are these short videos also only 1080p?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002yd6b/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...usa-highlights

[iamghost]

[H.265, HLG] | en | 3840x2160 @ 26450 kb/s, 50.000 FPS
https://gofile.io/d/rwZ7v4

[pretty again]

[H.265, HLG] | en | 3840x2160 @ 26450 kb/s, 50.000 FPS
https://gofile.io/d/rwZ7v4

Wow! That's awesome! I knew there was something there)
Is it hard to get? The thing is, there are a lot of highlights like that. I'd like to have them all... They'll be deleted later.
There are 58 of them now, but there will be 104. I'm too embarrassed to ask someone for help downloading many videos.

[iamghost]

your links in first post is just 1080p

[pretty again]

Let's try to start with something then

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y2z0/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ica-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y2zx/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...lic-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y30f/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ina-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y30j/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...uay-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y30l/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...and-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y30m/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...cco-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y30p/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...and-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y314/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...key-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y31x/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...cao-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y31z/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...pan-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y333/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...dor-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y35n/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...sia-highlights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37p/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...rde-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37m/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ypt-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37s/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...uay-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37t/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...and-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37w/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...gal-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y37z/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...way-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y381/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ria-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y382/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...dan-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y384/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ngo-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y386/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...tia-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y388/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...ama-highlights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y38b/fifa-world-cup-2026-fifa-world-cup-2026...bia-highlights

This is the first round.
Let me know if this is too difficult, as there are still two rounds to complete.
Next up are the playoff matches, 32 in total, spread over three weeks.

I would be grateful if someone could help me complete this task.

[YmFzZTY0]

Let's try to start with something then

I would be grateful if someone could help me complete this task.

yt-dlp
get_iplayer
vinetrimmer
unshackle
N_m3u8dl-RE
plus others

[iamghost]

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[pretty again]

I'm getting the following error:
"Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden)"

I tried several solutions/codes I found here on the forum via search, but I couldn't solve the problem.
I usually use:
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "link" -M format=mkv

[stinvincible]

at the beginning, both the live broadcasts and replays were in 4K, and I even downloaded one, but after the France vs Senegal group stage match on June 17, iPlayer suddenly removed 4K from the replays and only kept the highlights
[Attachment 92836 - Click to enlarge]

[pretty again]

at the beginning, both the live broadcasts and replays were in 4K, and I even downloaded one, but after the France vs Senegal group stage match on June 17, iPlayer suddenly removed 4K from the replays and only kept the highlights
[Attachment 92836 - Click to enlarge]

Yes, that's exactly what I meant at the very beginning.
Now, I'd like to download the highlights, but I can't.
Could you please advise me on how to do this?
In the post above, I explained that I'm getting the error: "Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden)"

[iamghost]

maybe it your vpn, bbc 4k doesnt like it

[pretty again]

maybe it your vpn, bbc 4k doesnt like it

Do you mean I can't download these videos because I'm using a VPN? What a pity. I'm not in the UK...

[DragonQ]

at the beginning, both the live broadcasts and replays were in 4K, and I even downloaded one, but after the France vs Senegal group stage match on June 17, iPlayer suddenly removed 4K from the replays and only kept the highlights
[Attachment 92836 - Click to enlarge]

This is correct. The first 5 matches shown on BBC were available in UHD HLG until someone realised that was probably a mistake and removed them. I managed to grab them all before they were taken down.

Now, within a minute or two of the live broadcasts ending, the UHD links are removed. On 3 occasions I've managed to get Unshackle to download the UHD video streams just after the live stream ended but on each occasion the application got stuck before I got a useful output. I have the raw .mp4 video segments for those matches but they seem corrupted, sadly, so I don't know if anything is retrievable. I have seen at least one recent match appear elsewhere though (i.e. not one of the first 5) so it must be possible somehow to either the live UHD broadcasts or grab them successfully before the links get removed!

I contacted BBC about this and they said the official line of "full matches were only available in UHD for live broadcasts". It's a shame someone noticed those first 5 were left on there for a while! Seems silly to me given half the matches won't be watched live anyway due to their broadcast times being in the middle of the night. Why not make them available for a short while? Sigh.

The highlight videos are all generally available in UHD HLG though and I've managed to grab all of those so far. Note that the more mainstream tools mentioned in posts above (yt-dlp, get_iplayer) cannot download UHD HLG video from iPlayer.

https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/9bzdqd5c-pips-pid-m002y2z1/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782522493_5473283a974d692339fbdb58dd52aab0
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https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/2x3mh8q6-pips-pid-m002y37n/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523115_7b78dc0f8577ea828e434004c23148f6
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/2x3mh8q6-pips-pid-m002y37n/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523158_d619ff5eed2dff67fd4dc9d4d9fefa74
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/88lph42t-pips-pid-m002y37r/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523188_aa5bd0c094616b882fd65ad3bcc5bf0b
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/rtqp0344-pips-pid-m002y37v/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523221_b342f33cc6927f05f2a240074e0b521b
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/ttr6691m-pips-pid-m002y37x/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523253_1c2ef954cce47916d8824b380df9dee1
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/mgbp95hs-pips-pid-m002y37y/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523287_63336a165b6b059330b58a019d717bb5
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/2hbg0t09-pips-pid-m002y380/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523318_ade5fbc7114a3ee679c3a0111348a21d
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/t3lhxh12-pips-pid-m002y383/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523352_e854cc2f95210377c86a8bc7268ac829
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/tpvbtpn4-pips-pid-m002y385/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523387_3e37743d1c322599dea898453389ebaa 
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/85b8yz8h-pips-pid-m002y387/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523421_56ba7cac418f5bee23b1adbb7c8da2dc
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/b74hx310-pips-pid-m002y389/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523458_c9a094a2ea2f051106261f4f2be3744f
https://vod-uhd-uk-live.akamaized.net/vhsmfyzv-pips-pid-m002y38c/scmaf_abr_full_uhd/rd/iptv_uhd_v1_master.mpd?__gda__=1782523503_ea9e20827f3f6e932d8b07ecc61a4d8b

I live in the UK and none of these work for me. Probably using them wrong but streamlink just gives a 403 even if I provide iPlayer login details. I can use Unshackle to download UHD video using normal iPlayer URLs though.

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Use N_m3u8DL-RE and do it live.

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Use N_m3u8DL-RE and do it live.

How do you get the MPD URLs (for UHD HLG specifically) from the standard iPlayer links though?

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Android app

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Android app

Android app only has 720p50 streams as far as I know! Only certain devices have access to the UHD streams.

EDIT: Found the live UHD URL being used for the World Cup and Wimbledon. Seems to work fine with streamlink but can't get N_m3u8DL-RE to work (just lots of 404 errors).

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16 urls for wimbledon, the 1080p are upscaled 720p