Talking of which, It would be great to see bbc iplayer under Boxee! (boxee.tv)
It seems to have everything already to support iplayer except once again away to understand RTMP streams. It also seems to be the perfect example of Tom Coates social TV - http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/03/social_software_for_settop_boxes/ Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [] private; [x] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Johnston Sent: 27 August 2008 12:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Date-specific iPlayer RSS feeds 2008/8/27 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can always, by the way, use: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/<PID> (eg > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008pbnv ) to get the information for > a programme's PID, but you don't seem to be able to use the .xml > extension to get the information as XML... yet I presume. Well there are also these XML files for iPlayer programmes (which I'm using in the XBMC script) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b008pbnv Doesn't have everything, but it's all I need for my scriptage. Screen-scraping wasn't much fun. Even though the iPlayer pages are all valid markup and pretty easy to parse, it's so much nicer to have the RSS feeds! -dave - 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]/
