Firstly, thanks for the pointers about the streams and titles of the Radio channels - hopefully now fixed in the API. (The corrected names should also make it into the TV-Anytime files tomorrow morning as well.)
It would be great if there were general support for some sort of API. I'd be happy to have a chat this further. Obviously a few changes would be required to support multiple providers, but that doesn't sound too difficult. I'll email you off list James. Cheers, Andrew BBC Research On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:59:28PM -0000, Pete Cole wrote: > > Hi, > > > Would anyone be interested in a partial implementation of this API for > > Virgin Radio's channels, too? > > Yes me! I'd love to be able to add Virgin Radio channels to the radio player > widget. > > I am heading to a land of despair with TV at the moment, there's the Sky > Active Player, there's the 4OD player, there's TVP et al and sometime there > may be a BBC iPlayer. Wow, watching TV from the Internet is going to be such > a great user experience - I need which software for which channel? Hmmm, > don't like what is on there, wait for software to load for other channel, > nah, next, oh this is download, wait 4 hours - don't feel like watching that > anymore, maybe tomorrow then :(. I think I'll stick with Sky+. Apparently I > can watch over ether TV on a box with a Panasonic label on it but watching > the BBC content on something without a BBC logo on it is the end of the BBC > as we know it - if a 'common standard' can be built by you guys for radio, > perhaps the same might then percolate into TV? > > > Pete Cole > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland > > Sent: 04 January 2007 22:46 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [backstage] BBC Web API - subset for Virgin Radio? (was World > > Service Streaming) > > > > On 12/27/06, Pete Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sorry, I should have (much) been clearer. > > > > The API described at > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html can > > return location info, e.g. > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi- > > perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLoc > > <http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi- > > perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLoc> > > ations&channel_id=BBCROne > > > > The real-audio streams returned for a number of radio channels > > seem to be > > wrong at the moment (I don't know about the multi-cast streams). > > > > > > Great, many thanks. > > > > Would anyone be interested in a partial implementation of this API for > > Virgin Radio's channels, too? > > > > We'd be able to almost instantly support... > > channel.list&format=simple > > channel.getLocations&format=simple&channel_id=xxxxx > > channel.getInfo&format=simple&channel_id=xxxxx > > ...and I can see us also supporting a limited getProgrammes list in > > simple and schedule format. We may also add a channel.nowPlaying > > method, showing the currently-playing song, if anyone wants that. (Or > > is this already available on a BBC API somewhere?) > > > > We'd need some help in defining the correct format names for our ogg- > > vorbis, aac+, streaming mp3 and quicktime streams, if someone wants to > > help: I don't see the documentation for these names (and since the BBC > > doesn't stream in these formats, I doubt I will!). Help and guidance > > gratefully received. > > > > It's a shame that the API methods all have 'bbc.' in front of them. > > Happy to call ours 'virgin.channel.list' etc, but I suspect we may wish > > to, in time, expand these to other stations (we actually stream a lot > > of other commercial radio services on our network), so would have > > preferred the API methods to drop the 'bbc.' bits in front. Again, > > guidance from the developer community would be good to help us here. My > > goal is to make any BBC Web API application (that uses the subset we'll > > support) work out of the box for our services too, with just a URL > > change. > > > > As an aside - the API returns the name of "BBC7" as "BBC Seven > > Digital", which I believe has never been used as a brand name for the > > station. > > > > > > Feel free to email me off-list - I'm at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if this seems like blatant > > commercialism. But I'd hope that, by using the same API calls, we're > > giving developers more choice. Your views more than welcome. > > > > -- > > http://james.cridland.net/ > > http://www.virginradio.co.uk/vip/profile/bigjim/ > > - > 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]/ - 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]/
