Hi Dan, The flash based BBC Embedded Media Player does have an API, but the documentation is only available within the BBC.
For most content it will fail if you try and embedded on a page outside of .bbc.co.uk. nick. -----Original Message----- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Dan Brickley Sent: Tue 12/15/2009 1:37 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] embedding API for iplayer in webapps? Hi folks A year or two ago, there was a nice proof of concept showing iplayer embedded within Facebook. And there was inconclusive discussion here a while back about APIs. What's the current state of art? Context: In the NoTube project, I am looking at possible lightweight standards for connecting smartphone remotes with Web-based video sites, so that pressing pause/play/rewind/fave/tag etc on your handheld can be communicated up to a javascript/html-based player. I've been testing XMPP so far, and using the XMPP "BOSH" spec for linking up to the HTML/.js stuff (via Strophe.js). I'm not yet convinced this will be responsive enough for real use, and want to do some tests with real video and radio sites. Having made some quick mockups with HTML5 video, it was quite fun being able to have an iphone app flip between videos running in a Web page; however it was also pretty annoying when the XMPP connection was too slow. I think it's time to make some more realistic tests, and I'd love to try something with iplayer if that is possible now or soon... Pointers? plans? is there any kind of API usable now? searching around I couldn't find much... Dan - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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