> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore > Sent: 11 January 2007 10:03 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles? > > 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)
I thought they were fixed pitch "Tiresias Screenfont"? It might be easier to get them from analogue TV with a Teletext card. Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a "search" feed, rather than a complete feed be OK with the Act? > - > 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]/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release > Date: 10/01/2007 14:52 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 10/01/2007 14:52 - 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]/
