If it's Silverlight it will work fine on a Mac.
Phil.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods
Sent: 06 July 2007 09:19
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!
Applied...
Symbolic irony? The woman in the
Hey all. This list is growing a little quiet, isn't it?
I'm working with a friend on a .Net/C# media centre application. We were
having problems with other similar systems due to either their lack of
decent metadata handling or their dependency on a specific renderer (poor
subtitle rendering,
Gave Trynt a try - not impressed. Only one search was successful and
that returned no data :(
IMDB support tools that download a local copy of their database, keep it
updated and some decent search utilities. Its pretty old (goes back to
the days when Usenet was the primary distribution
Hello Backstage,
thinking about how wonderfully modular our web/information has become
(eg google home page, blogger web site creation, mambo/opensource CMS
web pages), is it conceivable video content goes likewise?
i'm picturing a corporate or training video i make for someone. the
core content
James,
Interesting...
Surely the point of Aston type graphics (in vision, non-interactive) is that
they are for passive viewing, as a mouse+menu is 1% better if you are
online (rather than selecting from one-to-many broadcast streams)?
On 09/07/07, James Ockenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On to my questions:
Has anyone yet been able to create an API around the BBC Programme
Catalogue? It seems this would be the best data source to use so far.
the BBC Programme Catalogue is already one big restful API... which
may be enough for your needs, depending...
replace 'infax' in with
The BBC haven't help Skinkers with the development of Live Station. They've
been in a couple of times to show us what they've created.
Paul (BBC)
On Sun Jul 8 2:20 , 'Christopher Woods' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
Interesting, I remember using the Skinkers BBC News desktop widget many
oh yes, web can do it better... i'm talking about a format which could
be read by a wi-fi/internet enabled VCD/DVD player for example...the
core content and the feed instructions are all on the video file
assuming files and discs aren't redundant by then anyway.
researching Aston graphics now
But if it's internet enabled, there is no need for clunky interactive TV
features (because it's video loops plus a carousel).
I would really like BBC News 24 on Freeview/cable to carry regional news
headlines in-vision using the technique you suggest (it can't be done on
satellite, no regional
On 7/9/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On to my questions:
Has anyone yet been able to create an API around the BBC Programme
Catalogue? It seems this would be the best data source to use so far.
the BBC Programme Catalogue is already one big restful API... which
may be enough
Hi All,
I wanted to fill you all in on a event we've been working on behind the scenes.
And this time its not in London ;)
Here's the official blurb...
This year the MGEITF has spawned its own fringe event, the Un-Festival. This
day-long event which takes place on Saturday 25 August will
For those who don't live near Edinburgh, don’t worry there's quite a few events
in London this month including,
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/208191 - London Ruby Group (today)
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/207950 - 5 Pound App meet (tomorrow)
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/215979 -
I've been following the Programme Catalogue since it was announced, and
its pretty interesting.
I do however have a question for the BBC people on the list - have you
considered simply uploading all the information to Freebase[1]? I can
understand that you might want to keep it in house, but if
I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing.
But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-)
Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean
call that big RESTful API) and post entries/updates to the freebase
sandbox server would be an
http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DR+WHO
holy synonomous concepts, batman...
(http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO)
point is, it would be easy to merge these on freebase, nearly impossible
directly in the BBC Programme Catalogue context...
suppose this all
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote:
I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing.
But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-)
Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean
call that big RESTful API) and post
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:05 +0100, Chris Sizemore wrote:
holy synonomous concepts, batman...
point is, it would be easy to merge these on freebase, nearly
impossible directly in the BBC Programme Catalogue context...
Indeed, Freebase is superior in this regard.
arguably, the BBC has done
On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote:
I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing.
But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-)
Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive
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