[backstage] BBC iPlayer on PS3
I noticed this morning the iPlayer is now supposed to work on the PS3 officially, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/where_to_get_iplayer/ However it still doesnt work, getting an 'enable javascript' error despite it being enabled The error has already been reported on http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/F7331803?thread=6109696, just hadnt seen any announcement about ps3 support before now. -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
[backstage] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data
Hi All, i posted this a week or so to the backstage site but it hasn't been posted so I thought i'd send it here. In the absence of any GeoRss support to the backstage travel data feeds I've produced my own from the tpeg files. see http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/about_geoRss.html, includes details on adding them to google maps. all data available from http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/travel_data/ any comments freely accepted. Thanks, Michael -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [backstage] new prototype, geoRss feeds for travel data
thanks for all the comments, i'll do my best to work on these comments when i get some free time On 10/04/07, mapperz . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, Excellent work, have tracked your blueghost projects and like the mapping integration with the new services from Google Maps KML/KMZ and GeoRSS support in the API. As for suggestions, different colored icons/lines for severity of the incident? Time Stamp on the Icon (on click) Lines not yet click-able (a feature request on the api) but maybe soon. (try v2.78 of the google map api) But the like the breakdown from UKCountyLocalising of the rss feed, excellent. mapperz http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ On 4/10/07, Michael Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, i posted this a week or so to the backstage site but it hasn't been posted so I thought i'd send it here. In the absence of any GeoRss support to the backstage travel data feeds I've produced my own from the tpeg files. see http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/about_geoRss.html, includes details on adding them to google maps. all data available from http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/travel_data/ any comments freely accepted. Thanks, Michael -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- mapperz http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [backstage] Postcoder
use the google ajax search api, http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/, you can search for post codes and it returns a town name and some lat/lng values - not sure how accurate/precise it is On 16/11/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: best I can do ,... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=529811,189466type=OSGrid On 16/11/06, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working on Postcoder earlier this year there was lots of talk about releasing the API as part of Backstage. But there were licensing problems. So I just thought I'd ask if those licensing problems were any nearer to being solved and whether the Postcoder API was any closer to being made public. Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert postcodes to lat/long? It seems to me that the Google Maps GeoCoder object doesn't understand UK postcodes. Cheers, 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/ -- -- Michael Pritchard Web :: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!
also the url is a bit deceiving, seeing '5day' in the url made me think that it would contain a 5 day forecast, but it only seems to be 1 day. Is there any chance this could have 5 days like the url suggests?
On 18/10/06, Michael Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what would be useful would be some sort of listing of all areas, such as an opml file. I don't fancy manually finding out what each of the 7379 feeds correspond to
On 18/10/06,
Kathryn Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings Backstagers,
I am very pleased to inform you that BBC Weather's first RSS feeds are now live. Links to them can be found on all 5 day forecast pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml
The feeds are located at
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/{world|id}/{location_id}.xml
E.g.
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/2315.xml and
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4567.xml
All of the 7379 feeds are updated at least* twice a day (at approximately 8AM/PM *GMT*).
We are planning more feeds, and improvements to these ones as well (e.g. dynamic generation of feeds, which will allow us to offer different flavours such as Atom; additional content such as tide times and current observations (Met Office willing); additional semantic mark-up).
In the meantime we look forward to seeing your BBC Weather widgets in the Backstage Widgets Compo:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/widgets_competi.html
I have included geo:lat/long tags in all entries to facilitate mappy mashups. Enjoy!
I look forward to hearing your comments, concerns and ideas.
Best,
Kass
Kathryn Schmitt
Senior Developer
BBC Weather Centre
2026 Television Centre
T: 020 82259448
M: 0771 7582482
www.bbc.co.uk/weather
www.bbc.co.uk/climate
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[backstage] Feeds APIs page down again
The feeds and APIs page seems to be broke again ( i think it was broke ages ago) :http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data-- -- Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...
On 27/07/06, Phil Winstanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Google Geocoding system is pretty crap - it finds Paris but notLondon so someone would have to scan through manually and fill in thegaps if they need the mapping data - I will probably run it through QAS, Mappoint or AFD locally for UK places.thats probably because the google geocoder doesn't work in the UK yet :)-- -- Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] An API to our schedules
you can get a series in tvanytime, it should be in the series tag, e,gseriescrid://bbc.co.uk/DoctorWho/seriesOn 12/05/06, Pete Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, I've written a 'radio' gadget/widget/applet/application using the API [1],the API provides a significant improvement over what we were able to dobefore (nick the real-audio feed locations from the Listen Live player for Mac and hard code everything!) but a couple of comments:The API is a bit cumbersome in this app because the results available fromparticular calls are a bit thin. TV-Anytime causes me brain ache as well, so using the simple results formats this happens at startup:Call channel.listfor each channel:call getLocations to find those with a real-audio feedcall getInfo to obtain the location of the logo graphic All this info could probably be provided in channel.list results withoutreally breaking the concept of 'simple'?schedule.getProgrammes is used for getting now playing and working out whennow playing needs to update (though the API doesn't actually drop the 'current' show until a minute after it has ended) and also used to display aday ahead schedule so you can set 'alarms' where the app auto-tunes thestation at the programmed start time.What would be nice? Being able to 'series link'. Perhaps this is available inprograminfo and I haven't seen it.More information/locations on a programme and in particular that'listen again' is available for it and link information for programme web site/page.Other thoughts:The What's On Yahoo Widget sample accesseshttp://radioandmusic.gateway.bbc.co.uk/xml/livetext.xml - this doesn't seem to be available - is it an internal bbc thang?Though I understand why RSS feeds, especially those that are based on stufforiginating at places like Reuters must have 'non-commecial use only' terms,I'm struggling to see why an application such as this player using these APIs must be non-commercial. I can go to a shop, buy resistors, capacitorsetc etc and build a device to tune to your signals and charge what I likefor it but do essentially the same thing in software and it must be 'non-commercial'?Pete Cole[1] We've been playing with an improvement to the Zeepe Radio player we didlast year - its available at http://www.zeepe.com/zeepeapps2 in the gadgetssection. If you want to run it you need to download and install the Zeepeframework first. Usage is free etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrew McParland Sent: 03 May 2006 17:08 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] An API to our schedules Hi, We've been working on a prototype API to our schedules based on the TV-Anytime data. Have a look at: http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html It's experimental, so be gentle with it, but do have a play and let us know what you think. Andrew - 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/ -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/-- -- Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] TV-Anytime feed failure
Also,the tar.gz file used to store the files as follows:/todaysdate/file.xml , eg /20060426/20060425BBCOne_pl.xmlit is now/file.xml , eg /20060425BBCOne_pl.xml On 08/05/06, Andrew McParland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael,Good idea.I've put the XML Schema (and the XML Classification Schemes)under:http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/schema/ AndrewP.S. Keep the comments coming in.We'll respond when we can.On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:45:38PM +0100, Michael Pritchard wrote: can you provide a location for the 1.3.1 xsd files, the ones listed from http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/doc.html ( ftp://tva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Plenary/TV288r1.zip ), don't quite match the xml provided in the feeds. The only reason I ask is that i use xsd.exe to generate some c# classes that turn the xml files in to c# class objects and the xml isn't validating against the xsds. It only appears to be minor things, such as the xsd using the 2005-03 namespace and the xml using the 2005 namespace Thanks Michael On 05/05/06, Hywel Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to report that our TV-Anytime server didn't have a good day today and appears to have suffered damage due to the computer room's air conditioners failing overnight.I'm currently nursing it back to health, but it has a way to go yet. In the mean time, I've published a data set that's been generated by a different server.This does mean however that there are a few differences compared to the normal data files. This database stores 5 days of past data that can be ignored as well as 7 days into the future. It's also compliant with the latest 1.3.1 specification which means that the changes I outlined at the beginning of the week that would start next Tuesday have appeared in today's data set. One other temporary problem that will only be seen in today's data is that all the files for the 13th contain no valid data.This is a temporary anomaly and won't appear in future files. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused - there may be some disruption over the weekend but I hope it'll be back running smoothly by Monday. The good news is that this outage hasn't affected the newly launched Web based API service. Hywel - 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/ -- -- Michael Pritchard Web:: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/-- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] TV-Anytime feed failure
can you provide a location for the 1.3.1 xsd files, the ones listed from http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/doc.html ( ftp://tva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Plenary/TV288r1.zip), don't quite match the xml provided in the feeds.The only reason I ask is that i use xsd.exe to generate some c# classes that turn the xml files in to c# class objects and the xml isn't validating against the xsds. It only appears to be minor things, such as the xsd using the 2005-03 namespace and the xml using the 2005 namespaceThanksMichaelOn 05/05/06, Hywel Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to report that our TV-Anytime server didn't have a good day todayand appears to have suffered damage due to the computer room's airconditioners failing overnight.I'm currently nursing it back to health, but it has a way to go yet.In the mean time, I've published a data set that's been generated by adifferent server.This does mean however that there are a few differencescompared to the normal data files. This database stores 5 days of past data that can be ignored as well as 7days into the future.It's also compliant with the latest 1.3.1 specification which means thatthe changes I outlined at the beginning of the week that would start next Tuesday have appeared in today's data set.One other temporary problem that will only be seen in today's data is thatall the files for the 13th contain no valid data.This is a temporaryanomaly and won't appear in future files. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused - there may be some disruption overthe weekend but I hope it'll be back running smoothly by Monday.The good news is that this outage hasn't affected the newly launched Web based API service.Hywel-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/ -- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] Google homepage module
I should also mention the advantage of using mine or marios module addons opposed to using rss feeds is that i found google caches the rss feed so the now and next data can be hours out of date, while the modules are live (or near enough live based on how long they are cached on mine or marios server) On 15/12/05, Michael Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just beat me to it, although my system for now and next is more convulted (although you can choose from all the bleb.org channels with my module).Generate a selection of channels @ http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/nn.php using the google.com/ig builder at the top of the page and add http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/google_ig_nn.xml to google as mario mentions above. The module defaults to channels 1-5. This doesn't work too well around midnight as it doesn't get the next program for the following day, although i am working to fix that. Ideally google will let the user select a number of channels from a list, but currently they only support single-option combo boxes) You can also get a single channel listing (currently 1 day only). You can customise this in google.com/ig by clicking the Edit link on the module and selecting the channel. The url for this one is http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/google_ig_channel.xmlMichael On 15/12/05, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google have yesterday released their homepage API which lets users create widgets for the Google personalised homepage ( google.com/ig). This works very similarly to the way gadgets work on live.com, so last night (with minimal effort) I have ported my existing what's on now/next live.com gadget to become a Google homepage module. If Google accept it, it should eventually appear in their directory (http://www.google.com/ig/directory ), in the meantime if you're interested you can install it by adding the developer module from the google.com/ig page (click Add Content Create a Section and enter developer.xml in the text field), then add my module from the url http://backstage.menti.name/google/nownext.xmlThis is a direct port, so functionality-wise it does exactly the same as the live.com gadget (auto-refreshes every 10 minutes, manual refresh button, hover over program title to see synopsis). Comments and feedback welcome as always, cheers,Mario. -- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- -- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] backstage IM bot posted on BetaNews
I'd get them to edit the article to credit you and not msn for providing the service.On 03/12/05, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:You may find this amusing I happened to look at my IM bot logs this afternoon, and was more than a little surprised that since last night, the MSN bot had been in use non-stop. Between yesterday evening and this afternoon, more than 1,100 individual new users had spoken to it... A Technorati search found the likely source of this sudden interest, a rather misleadingly titled post on BetaNews: http://www.betanews.com/article/MSN_Messenger_Adds_Two_New_IM_Bots/1133551249 The good thing (apart from the fact that it actually stayed up without any problems during this relatively - for me - intensive use) is that I now have plenty of logs to comb through, which may encourage me to improve the interface (the logs are interesting now there's sufficient data to see where people tend to trip up), which is something I meant to do for a while, but have always put on the backburner due to having more important things to do.. Cheers, Mario. -- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.uk GMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] More feeds - BBC News AV RSS!
On 03/11/05, Dogsbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind the links to the HTML pages especially as you have the nicechoice screen that asks if you want WMV or Real content however once you have then picked would it be possible to have a link direct to the mediaunderneath the embedded video. if you use firefox and greasemonkey see my script here: http://www.blueghost.co.uk/bbc_vp.html it should show a link to the media file, see the screenshots on the website Where I work I can view Real content but not when it is embedded in a page. To be honest I would like to see this all over your site!It used to betit or miss as to weather the link was their on the on-line Radio Player.Thank youDan-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/-- -- Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
Re: [backstage] TV Data bug..
also why is there no data (ie the xml files have no real data) from next friday morningOn 30/10/05, Hywel Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 11:04 30/10/2005, you wrote:Hi, Program:crid://bbc.co.uk/1103146355andcrid://bbc.co.uk/1103146353 Are the same program, both on BBC 4Unfortunately to get 100% accuracy, the programmes should all bematched by hand, possibly by the schedulers.Unfortunately thisisn't currently done and repeat programmes are found using a simple algorithm, which occasionally fails as it has in this case. Theopposite can occasionally happen when two programmes are matched asrepeats, when they're not - usually caused by generic saynopses.There is also a know issue with films that traverse the news, with the two halves not being paired correctly.This is a test environment - it s believed that far more accuratematching will be done should a full broadcast TV-Anytime service be set up.Hywel [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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- --Michael PritchardWeb:: http://www.blueghost.co.ukGMail:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--
