On 10/01/07, Frank Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
> Some BBC programs provide their scripts online, but I was wondering if
> it would be possible to provide ALL the subtitles used by the BBC (and
> other broadcasters) over the course of the day as RSS feeds?
I asked some BBC people about this last year, and the answers generally
seemed to be preceded by lots of sucking in of air through teeth.
I believe the problem is not technical, but contractual, in that
subtitles shown on BBC programmes are often not owned by the BBC.
So what seems, on the face of it, to be an obvious thing to do is
actually quite fiendishly difficult to make happen.
No doubt some actual BBC people will explain further.
Or, ideally, say: "it's all sorted out now, here they are!"
contractual... messy, messy, messy (as usual, we only have broadcast
rights).. tech messy messy (several sources, depending on whether it's
live or prerecorded. One of those cases where I hit a brick wall, I'm
afraid, cos you're right it's a lovely feed. It's being dealt with as
part of the preparations for iPlayer, but don't hold breath.
if you want to play in private, and you're feeling quite hardcore,
you *could* extract the subtitles from a DVB-S MPEG2 stream (aka a
satellite stream) where they're still in there somewhere as ASCII. On
DTT (Freeview) the subtitles are transmitted as bitmaps, so are hard
to get-at (a friend tried to OCR them out, and Failed with a capital
F)
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