Has everyone seen -> http://whomwah.github.com/radioaunty/ http://whomwah.github.com/tellybox/
Doesn't seem too hard if someone was interested to build a ondemand version of these apps, using the http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers for feeds If they didn't really like the format something like solr could be used to rip then reindex the data into a nicer format And someone could create a commandline version of these apps, it's still flash video in a browser but at least it'd be better than nothing... Ant On 28/05/2010 00:15, "David Woodhouse" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 22:56 +0100, Jonathan Tweed wrote: >> On 27 May 2010, at 20:42, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Personally, all my use of iPlayer content is to fetch something I'm >>> already aware of; I'm not just browsing randomly. And for that, I find >>> that a command line tool gives a _much_ better experience than any >>> point-and-drool GUI could ever provide. >> >> You're missing two very important words there: for you. > > Surely those two words would be redundant, given that I already went > back to that sentence to insert the words 'I find that' before sending > it? That was certainly my intention. > >>> But there _are_ GUI tools which make use of get_iplayer, such as the >>> get_iplayer.cgi script which runs a local web server and points your >>> browser at it. They haven't received a lot of love because most people >>> with sufficient clue to work on them don't really _care_ about such >>> things. >> >> I think Kieran's point is that they should. That's what will drive >> widespread adoption. > > That presumes that "they" _want_ widespread adoption, of course. I can't > speak for "them" but personally, I don't really care very much about how > widely get_iplayer (or any other Free Software I work on) is adopted. > It's fun when people out there are using your code, but that kind of > lost its novelty after the first few million units shipped. > > I started working on get_iplayer because I find it useful and I know > that other people find it useful too. Without it, the iPlayer is fairly > useless to me. My broadband at home is far too slow to watch things in > real time with any reasonable quality, BT want £128,000 to install a > second line, so my only real option is to download things and then watch > them. > > I'm completely uninterested in the GUI side. I'd be the wrong person to > do any GUI support because I'd never want to _use_ anything like that. > > If you or Kieran are actually _interested_ in the GUIs... have you > _looked_ at get_iplayer.cgi or at the iPlayer support in XBMC? -- Anthony Mckale, Senior CSD Mob : 07912981657 Internal Phone : (02 776) 64470 BBC FMT Children's, TVC East Tower, Floor 1, Room E164 - 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]/
