Re: [backstage] BBC website review: Site failing to act as 'trusted guide

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/5/29 Jeremy Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A few interesting points picked out by the guardian ;) Yes, they do have a rather vested interest. I have to say that I do rather agree that the BBC search engine is bloody awful. It comes as no surprise that people are not using it! Ever tried to

Re: [backstage] Film Reviews

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Butterworth
Just a quick idea. How about a page on bbc.co.uk noting sections that have closed? 2008/5/29 Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see the film reviews are nolonger being updated on the BBC site. Does anyone know why and will this mean that the film reviews xml feeds will no longer be

Re: [backstage] BBC website review: Site failing to act as 'trusted guide

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/service_licences/service_reviews/report_bbc.co.uk_review.pdf

Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii

2008-05-30 Thread Andy
Now that is awesome! On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the iPlayer on the Wii quite a lot recently and felt the interface could be improved to make navigation easier on the Wii's low resolution. Because of this, I've created an alternative

Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii

2008-05-30 Thread Chris Johnson
Thanks for the feedback. With regards to your suggestions: 1) This is something I'm working on. Unfortunately to find out which programs are not available I'd have to query them all individually, which is something I'd rather not do. I was planning though to cache the request when the user finds

[backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Graeme West
Hi all, Apologies if this is a dupe, or old news. Someone (Paul Battley, I think, possibly others) has made a rather nice download client for the streaming iPlayer for the Mac. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3565-enterprising-soul-creates-bbc-iplayer-download-app-for-mac.html

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Iain Wallace
Yes, I saw this pop up on the wiki (http://beebhack.bluwiki.com) last month - great stuff. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Graeme West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Apologies if this is a dupe, or old news. Someone (Paul Battley, I think, possibly others) has made a rather nice download

RE: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Stone
Sorry fellas. Can we have this discussion somewhere else ? This makes life harder for the iPlayer team who will have to look again at what they're doing. this makes life harder for the backstage team who want this list to carry on as unmoderated. We know this stuff is going but discussion and

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Andy
Jeremy Stone wrote: Sorry fellas. The BBC supports Gender discrimination now?[1] Can we have this discussion somewhere else ? Why? Is this some kind of cover up? Didn't the Trust tell the BBC to produce download clients for other platforms as soon as possible? Wouldn't someone else building a

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Arkham.p77
The only valid compromise I can see, is to move the discussion to the developer list. This is important info, and whether you are for or against it, this is the current state-of-play. Both ourselves and the developers should know where we stand. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Ryan Morrison
You say Didn't the Trust tell the BBC to produce download clients for other platforms as soon as possible? But didn't the Trust also set the conditions for DRM? The point here isn't so much that someone has made a download client but has made a download client that allows for the download of DRM

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Andy
Ryan Morrison wrote: You say Didn't the Trust tell the BBC to produce download clients for other platforms as soon as possible? But didn't the Trust also set the conditions for DRM? It doesn't say how secure the DRM has to be. And security wise it doesn't really need to be secure at all. After

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Ryan Morrison
Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to restrict discussion of certain topics isn't censorship? What precisely do you call it then? It's only censorship if they try to stop ALL discussion on a subject - as the suggestion was that discussion be moved to somewhere else, not stopped completely it

[backstage] Radio 4 on Realplayer

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Butterworth
Is it just me getting audio mutes every few seconds on the Real Audio stream of BBC Radio 4 FM. The LW feed is OK though... Who do you tell these days? -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002

Re: [backstage] iPlayer download client for the Mac

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Butterworth
s 2008/5/30 Ryan Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to restrict discussion of certain topics isn't censorship? What precisely do you call it then? It's only censorship if they try to stop ALL discussion on a subject - as the suggestion was that discussion be

RE: [backstage] Radio 4 on Realplayer

2008-05-30 Thread Alan Ogilvie
Brian - I have alerted our teams. Thank you. We are experiencing on-going problems with a few of our streams, you may notice issues on some listen again programmes (although I think we are down to the last few with a problem at the moment). In future the best way to contact us about streaming