Liam S Docherty wrote:
the current format of news articles do not
parse well at all, not to mention are rather difficult to extract from the
surrounding mark-up code. The simplified version suffers from the same
problem, so I was wondering are there any nice html versions or even plain
text
Simon Cobb wrote:
p2p though? I thought it was straight downloads. Can anyone set me
straight? Thanks.
It's p2p - based on Kontiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontiki
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Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it’ll be available?
This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the 27^th : -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
When I go to that link I see a Find out more and register... link that
takes me through to the signup page. I'm connecting
Any idea what time it'll be available?
This press release [1] says it'll be available from here on the 27th: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
Cheers,
Phil.
[1]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/06_june/27/i
player.shtml
On 27 Jul 2007, at 08:55, Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it’ll be available?
This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the
27th: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
Hi Phil
No idea what the official line is, but the registration form has been
up since last
On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:08, Steve Jolly wrote:
Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it’ll be available?
This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the
27^th : -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
When I go to that link I see a Find out more and register... link
that takes
Liam,
I'm having a similar issue in that I wish to parse to SVG, and this
could be easier...
in fact in large part it's a problem with the specifications...
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:48, Liam S Docherty wrote:
The low graphics version sufffer from the same problem,
The low graphics version sufffer from the same problem, in that the html
is not considered well formed by the standard Java parsers. I suppose I
could try tidy up the html before parsing =)
Thanks
Liam
Have you looked at the low graphics version? eg
At 12:13 +0100 27/7/07, Martin Belam wrote:
As I understand it, it is that the Kontiki client underpinning the
iPlayer-library-component-thing doesn't support Vista yet
all the best,
martin
The beta testing (sic) is being carried out on a old version
Microsoft's operating system?
Is that
or 'book' to download for watching later?
Rather oddly the BBC Executive didn't explicitally include the
functionality to bookmark future broadcasts in their submission to the
BBC Trust during the Public Value Test. Consequently, the Trust
decided to specifically rule out the iPlayer having that
How are the accounts being allocated? I signed up this morning, and like
Owen I'm wondering when I'll hear.
Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in XP on my Intel Mac...
shorttermmemoryloss.com
Owen Griffin wrote:
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On 27 Jul
Hi Dave,
Sun opened Java a while ago: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/
it's free now.
Vijay.
On 27/07/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Another glimpse at the future of television:
http://www.rulecam.net/ted/
(Free software under MIT/X11 style licensing, although its
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On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:08, Steve Jolly wrote:
Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it'll be available?
This press release [1] says it'll be available from here on the
27^th : -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
When I go to that
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It does work on all initial target systems.
XP.
Vista, Linux Mac to come later.
The key word in Martin's post was yet.
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At 12:13 +0100 27/7/07, Martin Belam wrote:
As I understand it, it is that the Kontiki client underpinning the
Hi,
Another glimpse at the future of television:
http://www.rulecam.net/ted/
(Free software under MIT/X11 style licensing, although its depends on
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Hi Terry,
Please contact me off the list and we'll have a chat. As I mentioned, I
only have access to a few extra years of data.
Andrew
BBC Research and Innovation
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:22:50AM +0800, Flynn, Terry wrote:
Andrew,
If you have data going back prior to June 22 2005, how
Is it only me? Why is I have both Icepodder (ipodder) and Azureus open at the
same time on my machine at home? Surely Azureus is clever enough to handle
podcasts like icepodder?
Ted looks cool, but once again why add another app to the mix?
Ian Forrester
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Liam S Docherty wrote:
The low graphics version sufffer from the same problem, in that the html
is not considered well formed by the standard Java parsers. I suppose I
could try tidy up the html before parsing =)
In this situation, I'd always suggest BeautifulSoup, but I'm afraid that's
I understand that the BBC tracks external links in order to provide stats to
respond to the Graf report's requirement for the BBC to link externally more
often, and become part of the web.
That's done with something in the footer, which automagically rewrites
external links to have go tracking
I'd imagine stats on which story is clicked is quite valuable, particularly
when moreover are ranking the stories.
I understand that the BBC tracks external links in order to provide stats to
respond to the Graf report's requirement for the BBC to link externally more
often, and become part of
Is anyone aware of any reason why they do not link directly to the story
on the relevant site instead?
The journalists working on the relevant news story pick the related link to
publish alongside their piece. However they use a tool to help them in this
task where stories are suggested to
Thanks.
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Simon Cobb wrote:
p2p though? I thought it was straight downloads. Can
We are proud to introduce a new initiative with the BBC Digital Media
Initiative (DMI), which will affect the BBC for many years to come. Something
which I'm sure the Backstage Community will and could sink its teeth into :)
From how the metadata is structured to what formats we should or could
Will it be wholly P2P? Or will it operate on a similar principle to 4OD,
where you can stream now and watch on demand, or 'book' to download for
watching later?
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I know this is totally off topic but I notice that the links to external
stories are actually being redirected through moreover.com rather than
link directly to the site in question (even if it does go through the
internal Beeb redirect
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Liam S Docherty wrote:
the current format of news articles do not
Why is Windows Vista unsupported? Windows XP is no longer the
'current' version of the operating system and hasn't been for nearly
six months. Surely iPlayer should have been developed for both, or
what's the point of betas and testing and bla?
On 7/27/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I understand it, it is that the Kontiki client underpinning the
iPlayer-library-component-thing doesn't support Vista yet
all the best,
martin
On 27/07/07, Gary Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is Windows Vista unsupported? Windows XP is no longer the
'current' version of the operating
Ian,
This looks brilliant.
RichE
On 27 Jul 2007, at 17:33, Ian Forrester wrote:
We are proud to introduce a new initiative with the BBC Digital
Media Initiative (DMI), which will affect the BBC for many years to
come. Something which I'm sure the Backstage Community will and
could sink
Hey backstage folk,
The people at lug radio have an interesting podcast about (amongst the
usual *spectacular* amounts of swearing and random nonsense) possible
ways to get iPlayer working on GNU/ Linux, Mac, etc.
There are torrents and direct downloads for both mp3 and ogg here:
Oh you don't know the half of it. Informing the technical roadmap for the
future of the BBC is going to be massive. All on the day of the public iplayer
:)
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Hi
Those who you who were at Hackday will remember Ben Smith and I demoing an
iPlayer Facebook application. We have just launched the application to coincide
with today's launch of iPlayer.
Those of you who have access to the iPlayer beta can install the Facebook
application here:
For those who aren't in the beta, could you please explain what it does?
Regards,
On 7/27/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Those who you who were at Hackday will remember Ben Smith and I demoing an
iPlayer Facebook application. We have just launched the application to
coincide
On 27/07/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun opened Java a while ago:
http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/
it's free now.
Sun announced an intention to release Java under GPLv2.
It is not free now.
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/README.html
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, that's nice! Installed and worked first time with my closed beta
login, I might as well do a little addition to my beta test blog iplayer
entry in a bit :)
(http://thebetatestblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/fabled-iplayer-review.html if
you're curious, if you're still waiting for your login
I was under the impression that the series link / prebook features were
still under consultation, and would most likely arrive sometime soon down
the line? That's a little disheartening, if it's been definitely ruled out.
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Mine just came through. As quickly as I had hoped for and much more quickly
than I had expected. Just have to see now if it will work through my proxy
(Joost didn't).
Paul Daniel
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Does the BBC need a new queuing system, perchance? I signed up this
morning, and all I've had is a website response saying 'If we're able to
invite you' - guess that's a 'no' then
Eamonn Neylon
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On 27 Jul 2007, at 20:34, Christopher Woods wrote:
, that's nice! Installed and worked first time with my
closed beta
login, I might as well do a little addition to my beta test blog
iplayer
entry in a bit :)
Thanks. I'm relieved to hear it installed ok and that you like it.
On 27/07/07, Owen Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried using the iPlayer on Linux using wine?
I could wait for the Linux version but I'm quite impatient. :)
I doubt it would work under WINE. The BBC worked exceptionally hard to
make sure it won't run under non Windows platforms.
On 7/27/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Also if anyone at the BBC can answer this question it would be
helpful: If the BBC supports standards as it so often claims why use
Kontiki and not the more common and widely used Bit torrent protocol
for it's content delivery?).
I'd guess it's
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