[backstage] Programmes Ontology

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Smethurst
The first draft of the Programmes Ontology is now online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/programmes It's taken from a d2r mapping of the bbc.co.uk/programmes database which in turn is based on PIPs (which in turn also powers iplayer) For now it's just the ontology but we're planning to make

Re: [backstage] Dirac Pro v1.0.0, SMPTE VC-2

2008-01-25 Thread Sean DALY
Hardware manufacturers are notorious for preferring open MPEG, SMPTE, ITU standards over proprietary codecs (other than their own). I saw a presentation at SATIS in Paris a few years ago which listed the main PC codecs (including Theora) and then called MPEG the only standards that matter. This

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
Thanks for the response On 24/01/2008, Martin Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 3:31 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] broadcasters - don't publish the exact start times of programmes anywhere, which is not quite Can I assume the word missing from the

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

2008-01-25 Thread Gareth Smith
Brian, It seems to me that one of the reasons this thread is going on so long is that many of the people in it share a belief which you don't - and to them it seems so obvious that they haven't bothered to state it explicitly. Here is what I believe is the major axiom of contention: It is

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 25/01/2008, Gareth Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, It seems to me that one of the reasons this thread is going on so long is that many of the people in it share a belief which you don't - and to them it seems so obvious that they haven't bothered to state it explicitly. Here is

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Barber
Strange isn't it! Well the weekend begins soon so perhaps I should see what happens Monday ;) On Jan 25, 2008 4:34 PM, Ciaran Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/08, Darren Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see what MIME types your browser is sending out in HTTP Accept when

Re: [backstage] Lol

2008-01-25 Thread Mario Menti
See also this... http://lolinator.com/lol/news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/default.stm On Jan 24, 2008 10:45 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, That's the best mashup since the last 2Many DJs set I heard. On 23/01/2008, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably posted

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 25/01/2008, Darren Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see what MIME types your browser is sending out in HTTP Accept when you make a request (Firebug might help). It could be that you are sending accept application/xml+html which is letting you get mobile HTML (WML 2.0 XHTML)

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Jolly
Brian Butterworth wrote: The system I wrote for ITV over 15 years ago worked down to the FRAME - that's 1/25 of a second. That is how channels are scheduled. Scheduling systems may be accurate to 1/25 of a second, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they are equally precise. The ability

[backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Barber
Anyone noticed the BBC News front page has gone to a PDA or similar version? ./Matt

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Ciaran Hamilton
On 1/25/08, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone noticed the BBC News front page has gone to a PDA or similar version? Looks okay to me. What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP from this machine. - Ciaran. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Barber
On Jan 25, 2008 1:48 PM, Ciaran Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/08, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone noticed the BBC News front page has gone to a PDA or similar version? Looks okay to me. What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP from this

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Barber
On Jan 25, 2008 2:39 PM, Ciaran Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/08, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same browser, 2.0.0.11 from XP. It's actually redirecting to http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm which is strange. Tried IE as well to see if it was a

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Butterworth
Steve, Thanks On 25/01/2008, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: The system I wrote for ITV over 15 years ago worked down to the FRAME - that's 1/25 of a second. That is how channels are scheduled. Scheduling systems may be accurate to 1/25 of a second, but

RE: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Darren Stephens
Check to see what MIME types your browser is sending out in HTTP Accept when you make a request (Firebug might help). It could be that you are sending accept application/xml+html which is letting you get mobile HTML (WML 2.0 XHTML) back instead of the vanilla type. From: [EMAIL

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Ciaran Hamilton
On 1/25/08, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be that I am VPN'ed to a USA IP address? I doubt it; I actually originally accessed it from a USA IP address first but then tried using my normal UK IP in case that was causing the difference. What IP address are you coming

Re: [backstage] BBC News

2008-01-25 Thread Ciaran Hamilton
On 1/25/08, Darren Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see what MIME types your browser is sending out in HTTP Accept when you make a request (Firebug might help). It could be that you are sending accept application/xml+html which is letting you get mobile HTML (WML 2.0 XHTML) back