This may be a very naive / dumb question, but have the AlienBBC team had any direct contact with the BBC? On the face of it they (the BBC) seem to be very keen to open up some of their content via their "Backstage" ( http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ ) portal. I've played around with the Mac Dashboard "Listen Again" Widget they link to, and although it seems to miss a lot of the programmes available via AlienBBC (individual day editions of most programmes for example) I can see some advantages of this approach rather than parsing HTML.
I guess the main stumbling block would be the use of mplayer rather than Helix / Real clients, but a "proper" API must be a better bet in the long term. How about a friendly email to Matthew Cashmore or Ian Forrester suggesting a meeting ( http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/new_captains_ab.html )? From a brief look this might open the door to some neat things - for example if they would extend the directly addressable content to stuff like individual "Today" items. Is there any evidence that these people even know about AlienBBC, and is the consensus that it may be better if they don't? Thoughts? Phil -- florca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ florca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28460 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
