On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Graeme Mulvaney wrote: > > It would be great if you could just chop up the regional programme streams > into smaller chunks - actually you could probably do the same thing with > magazine shows such as "working lunch" and "watchdog", etc.
The regional programme splitting is a nice idea - hadn't thought of that. Here at BBC R&D we have been showing examples of segmenting stored TV and Radio programmes (Newsnight, Today, A Picture of Britain, Walking with Beasts, Football matches, etc). We've been playing with simple chapterized versions, but also alternative paths through the content, e.g. highlights or genre-based selections. We've also looked at joining up separate programmes, so you can watch _all_ the Vicky Pollard sketches, should you so wish. This is all supported by the segmentation features of the TV-Anytime metadata specifications. On the audio front, a guy from R&D (Chris Newell) has drafted a chapter proposal for ID3 tags so that you could have segmented MP3 files, similar to Apple's Chapter Support for AAC but a bit more extensive. It's ideal for audio books, magazine-style programmes or CDs that are a continuous piece: http://www.id3.org/develop.html (see "ID3 work in progress") He's also written a simple tool in Java to segment audio content and insert the tags: http://id3v2-chap-tool.sourceforge.net/ If anyone is interested in doing something in this area, player support would be useful and ideas for user interfaces to the content would be useful too. More tools would encourage people to provide suitably segmented content... Andrew > > On 10/27/05, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >> I've got sky, and sometimes watch different regional news programmes > > >> or versions of the politics show - some of the regional news > > >> programmes are excellent, but > > >> as they're all simulcast I tend to miss out on stuff. > > >> Would it be feasible to have a channel that recycled features from > > >> these programmes, linking them with national bulletins ? > > > > > > > > > News 24 now has a programme called News 24 Today at 7pm which is > > > hourlong, and apparently takes the best stuff from the One, the Six, > > > Breakfast, BBC World and the regional news rooms - not quite what you > > > were after I suppose, but near perhaps? > > > > This sounds like an fantastic idea!!!!! > > > > Kinda like a podcast [1] for video with just the articles from > > programmes instead of the whole program. > > > > You almost do this now with the news videos on the site but currently > > the only way to get to it is via the website. > > > > Please add this to the list of something we (I) would like to see from > > the BBC :-) > > > > Dan > > > > [1] I'm not a fan of the term podcast but you know what I mean! > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk <http://backstage.bbc.co.uk> discussion > > group. To unsubscribe, please visit > > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial > > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > -- > You can't build a reputation based on what you are going to do. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
