[backstage] Over the Air sign-up now live

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Seeing how everyone's so obsessed with the iPlayer streams on the iPhone :) I thought you'd all like to know the official sign-up for "Over the Air" has now gone live - http://overtheair.org/blog/?page_id=20 If you don't know what "Over the Air" here's a quick recap. Over the Air, is

Re: [backstage] Own up now, who was this?

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Oh thats funny :) lol Matt Barber wrote: Haha On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: http://dumpedimage.com/?image=843 :D - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To un

Re: [backstage] RSS Feed Thumbnails Missing

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I've fwd'ed on your email, hopefully it will be fixed soon. Fraser Murrell wrote: Hi, I noticed that for all news RSS feeds, the elements that normally provided us with a link to a thumbnail image of a particular article is no longer present.. As of around 11:00 this morning (GMT) they

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Tom Hannen
My mum too - she keeps telling me that I should encourage the BBC to use fewer DRM restrictions... All the time... On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mother hates unnecessary technical complications (she finds > computers and gadgets are complicated enough

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Sean DALY
My mother hates unnecessary technical complications (she finds computers and gadgets are complicated enough as it is) and DRM falls right into that category :-) On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Andy Halsall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mot

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Andy Halsall
> Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother wouldn't be > happy about. I take it that isn't legal advice... :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Ok so I spoke to many people and there is no official answer, yet! Yes I know your all waiting with baited for some news but your'll have to wait a little longer it would seem. Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother wouldn't be happy about. :) Cheers Mr I Forrester

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
Thanks for doing that. On 09/03/2008, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Dobson wrote: > > next step is to automate it > > is that what Ian Wallaces script does? > > Yes; I've put an online version I wrote probably at the same time up at: > http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-

Re: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 06/03/2008, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christopher Woods wrote: > >> Can you give an exact channel, date and time when you > >> observed the phenomenon? (03:59 GMT last night on N24, perhaps?) > > > > Definitely. Observable on BBC2 last night/this morning (05/03/2008) > during >

Re: [backstage] Own up now, who was this?

2008-03-10 Thread Matt Barber
Haha On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://dumpedimage.com/?image=843 > > :D > - > 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 archi

[backstage] RSS Feed Thumbnails Missing

2008-03-10 Thread Fraser Murrell
Hi, I noticed that for all news RSS feeds, the elements that normally provided us with a link to a thumbnail image of a particular article is no longer present.. As of around 11:00 this morning (GMT) they started to disappear, and now there are none! Will they be back? I hope so! :) Kind R

[backstage] Own up now, who was this?

2008-03-10 Thread Iain Wallace
http://dumpedimage.com/?image=843 :D - 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/

RE: [backstage] BBC Support page

2008-03-10 Thread Christopher Woods
I dunno... I was lucky enough to have a tour round BBC Brum (Mailbox) last year, and I found TV Ops absolutely fascinating. Could've easily spent all day in there just asking annoyingly technical questions. Maybe it was a good thing we left after ten minutes and were let loose on the Midlands Toda

RE: [backstage] Undermining iPlayer DRM

2008-03-10 Thread
My apologies - this will be fixed soon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/leaving_comments_on_bbc_b logs.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean DALY Sent: 08 March 2008 13:19 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [bac

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Andy Halsall
On Monday 10 March 2008 08:55:46 Mr I Forrester wrote: > I will attempt to get some answers to your questions, although I think > the iphone service is only a beta service at the moment? > Ian, I get the impresion some of them, or at least those related to future support for other mobile platfor

Re: [backstage] BBC Support page

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Bowyer
Isn't that one of those contradictions in terms, like Welsh Culture and Military Intelligence? On 10/03/2008, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think anyone wants to see live internet operations :) > > Good suggestion > > Adam Leach wrote: > > Just trying to find a support page a

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I will attempt to get some answers to your questions, although I think the iphone service is only a beta service at the moment? Andy Halsall wrote: This morning I came across the following; Subject: Re: [GeekUp] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] iPlayer DRM is over? From: "Tim Dobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [backstage] BBC Support page

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I don't think anyone wants to see live internet operations :) Good suggestion Adam Leach wrote: Just trying to find a support page as i've got a number of errors when accessing the weather page and i've come across this http://www.bbc.co.uk/support/ Shame it isn't a live stream, we could see