How to get episodes 1-25 on iphone?

[cbiccum]

Hi all, big fan of the show but I just realized I never did see the first 25 episodes or so. I can't figure out a way to download these episodes and get them on my iphone like a podcast would. If I goto the rev.3 site I can watch them on there but I want to take these with me on the road.

Any thoughts?

[darlyn]

Edit: The early episodes have not been encoded in a format the iPhone can play. There are various video converters available, but I suggest the open-source iPodME
(http://nodadev.wordpress.com/pc-projects/ipodme/)

You must be jailbroken in order to download files directly from a web site. Assuming you're running 2.2.1, this guide (http://www.quickpwn.com/2009/01/jailbreak-firmware-2-2-1.html) details the simple process.

Once you've jailbroken, you can install the Safari Download Plugin from Cydia. Also on Cydia is iFile, with which you can browse the iPhone's filesystem and play the downloaded files.

[darlyn]

Sorry for the double post, but I figured bumping this would be helpful. Everything after episode 8 is compatible with iPhone. Again, just jailbreak and use one of the various methods. I simply installed OpenSSH and the wget command on the device, and run the whole thing from my computer.

Assuming you're jailbroken, execute the following instructions:
1. Install OpenSSH, wget, SBSettings, iFile, and the KeepAwake toggle for SBS.
2. Find a direct link to the Small Quicktime encoding of the desired episode and copy to clipboard.
3. SSH into your iPhone (either using WinSCP/PuTTY or the ssh command on OS X.)
4. Then simply run wget EPISODE_BLAH_BLAH.MP4 from your computer.
5. With the KeepAwake toggled, you will be able to continue the download without having the iPhone's display on.

After your download completes, you can use iFile to watch the episode.
Note that the same command line stuff can be executed directly from the Terminal app on the iPhone if you also have the episode's file path in hClipboard (a copy & paste solution).