> > The specific item I was looking for was The Essay on Radio 3. > > It appeared in the AlienBBC listings, but not in the iPlayer listings. > Though I couldn't get it to play with AlienBBC. > > There was evidently something weird about this, as iPlayer Downloader > on my Mac (which is not the official BBC item, but a third-party > program) showed The Essay as a listing but would not download it. I > think it may have got included at the end of a concert, but didn't feel > like getting the whole concert. > >
2 Episodes (9th & 10th sept.) of The Essay now appears in BBCiPlayer plugin and they play OK for me. However 3 episodes (7th , 9th & 10th Sept)appear in AlienBBC which takes its info from the web pages. I think the diffference between AlienBBC and BBCiPlayer is as follows. AlienBBC uses web pages and the web pages are created ahead of broadcast for the scheduled programs. When programs are broadcast the link to the audio file are added. BBC days can also span midnight as they start at about 5am and so can result in iPlayer programs being available for 8 days. BBCiPlayer plugin feed is generated from the available audio files and rigourously enforces the 7 days rule. So AlienBBC can show program info but not have content and also sometimes can show one or two more episodes than BBCiPlayer. I think the BBCiPLayer XML feed is created by BBC on a regular basis (e.g. once an hour) rather than a realtime response to some sort of database lookup and so some programs will take some time after broadcast before they appear in the XML feed and so in BBCiPlayer. I think BBCiPlayer creates the each day schedule by sorting/filtering a list of programs. So the AlienBBC start time of 5am is what BBC supplied, the BBCiPlayer 9am start time maybe a plugin choice. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67455 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
