The BBC has just released Flash stream­ing for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up fea­ture. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwill­ing or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki cli­ent it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC programming.

Unfortunately, the BBC only makes the streams avail­able on their site. I checked the iPlayer terms and con­di­tions, and there’s noth­ing stop­ping remote embed­ding, it’s just a tech­nical hurdle.

Fortunately, the inter­net eats tech­nical hurdles for breakfast.

So, in the half hour before I go out to the pub, I’ve knocked together a little WordPress plu­gin that will take an iPlayer URI, and embed the stream­ing video into your page for you.

Like so:

Streaming full-screen Doctor Who on my web­site. Excuse me whilst I geek-out a moment, this is the coolest thing I’ve played with all week!

I’ll tidy up the code and release it to the com­munity as soon as I get back from a night of drink­ing and dancing!