On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Brian Butterworth
briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Guy,
I actually did that, but it's not really good on the performance front.
Here it is:
http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html
Very nice x2 :) didn't realise the prog IDs are in there, so
Forwarding this iPlayer and Backstage-related case study from W3C's
Technical Architecture Group list
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2010Apr/0072.html ),
since the author T.V Raman (cc:'d) isn't on the backstage list.
He asked that if I forward it, to take care also to mention that
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Alright alright! I hear you all...
So what's the first steps to make this happen? And you guys all sure you want
mailman instead of something like a newsgroup or google group?
If you go to mailman, folk will start
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dave Addey listma...@addey.com wrote:
As another alternative to Boxee and XBMC, you can always use Plex
(http://www.plexapp.com/) and my Plex iPlayer plugin (downloadable from
Plex's in-app plugin list). I'm using this on a Mac Mini hooked up to a
projector,
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Well I think this is the issue, in a nutshell.
I can't, won't talk for the rest of the BBC but it seems if your streaming
iplayer content inside the UK on to your PC device, that's fine. However if
you download
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Ant Miller ant.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
Better late than never I realise that I neglected to flag this short film to
the Backstage list. We shot it two weeks ago and very quickly edited and
loaded it up last week. Apologies for the video quality- we've been
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
So, what does everyone think?
(and how much effect will it have on the video situation over the
next 18 months or so, do we reckon?)
Would make a very luxurious smart and expensive remote control, or if
you stuck legs on
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I agree but there was no clear idea what we should do except maybe move the
whole thing to Mailman?
Because the list is public, I guess there is nothing stopping it being
archived in multiple places if you know
Hi folks
A year or two ago, there was a nice proof of concept showing iplayer
embedded within Facebook. And there was inconclusive discussion here a
while back about APIs. What's the current state of art?
Context: In the NoTube project, I am looking at possible lightweight
standards for
On 11 Nov 2009, at 14:30, Jon Knight j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Can you name a single Freeview box with an Ethernet port?
My home PC. ;-)
but does it support whois++?
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote:
Changing the long running threads (don't think I'm not watching)
Now Google Wave invites are out there and more of you have had a chance
to play with wave. What do people think? And why is no one building a
decent
Great news, phone fans!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8287239.stm
One of the most common technologies for watching video on a computer
will soon be available for most smartphones.
Flash software is used to deliver around 75% of online video and is
the key technology that underpins
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mr I Forrestermail...@cubicgarden.com wrote:
Another good idea, this time from nick shanks,
http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/idea/29/
At present, the iPlayer provides a short sidebar listing one's most
recently viewed programmes, I wish to:
a)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Brian Butterworthbriant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Ian,
It *WAS* in the original iMP. The series link downloaded new shows before
they were broadcast and the DRM released them at the broadcast start point.
If we are doing a iPlayer Last Played wishlist then I ask
NPR transcripts are now - I read - easier to find. I had a quick look
around and couldn't find one, but I didn't try that hard.
Could be of interest when run through text-summarisers,
auto-classifiers etc to make new routes to their content.
More on NPR transcripts here -
On 16/7/09 14:46, Jordan wrote:
Oh I forgot to mention, I'm getting the details from the other
channels in slightly different ways, with some use of XML and some
scraping.
Channel 4 have told me they're willing to create an API for services
like these, so I'm talking to them about that at the
On 11/6/09 08:31, Nigel Leeming wrote:
Hi
I have just been looking around the welcombackstage site, and I am moving
my readers over from tv-antime to the /programmes format.
I am doing so, to read the entire BBC content and put it in my own triple
store as I am writing an rdf browser.
What I
On 9/4/09 22:57, Mr I Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Just in case you've missed it this piece of news in the middle of a
pretty hectic week. We launched a project called RD TV which is a pilot
project out of BBC Backstage and BBC RAD Labs.
This is really great. Do you do requests? I'd love to see
On 10/4/09 00:09, Ant Miller wrote:
Hmm, I think I know just the people to ask about that one- an episode
on metadata, bringing in everyone from /programs to written archives,
and not skipping over the inestimable mr Silver Oliver too- that could
work!
Yes please! I have a bit of time through
On 15/3/09 02:32, Andy Halsall wrote:
I concur with his viewpoint that business models are being broken
faster than new ones can be invented.
Business models and distribution methods, the demand for high quality content
however remains constant
Really? Do we have metrics...? I'd love to see
On 15/3/09 02:12, Sean DALY wrote:
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
I was fascinated by this piece.
Example: Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
Related theme in Juan Cole's blog recently,
On 5/3/09 18:41, Robert Binney wrote:
Hi
Just wondered if any of you guys out there have had any truck with the
Internet Media Device Alliance (_http://www.imdalliance.org/_) and where
we are with metadata in the world of Internet Radio?
Interesting, but I have to say I'm somewhat put off by
On 12/1/09 11:29, Brian Butterworth wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7823387.stm
Does anyone have the working for this? I would LOVE to see it, given
that (for a start):
a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g
(0.25oz) of carbon dioxide
Not to mention all
Andy Halsall wrote:
Of course you've also limited the debate to those who have the
capability and the inclination to participate in such a debate on a
foreign broadcaster's website, whatever language(s) it's hosted in.
Very good point, although I don't know how prevalent internet access is in
Brian Butterworth wrote:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/greedy-bbc-blocks-external-links/1478/
Greedy BBC Blocks External Links
In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ has decided to stop giving real links to the
websites featured in the Related Internet Links
Gavin Pearce wrote:
** Sorry I meant within the BBC related links section specifically. My
bad for not making it clear.
Exactly Brian, I think we are on the same page … my point is why does
the BBC need to make use of JavaScript, or NoFollow tags for links to
“key” sites related to the
Hi folks
What's the latest news w.r.t. chances of getting access to BBC subtitle
/ closed caption data via nice clean API? Particularly for news content...
thanks for any pointers,
Dan
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Hi folks
Looking back at some data that emerged in time for Mashed,
http://mashed-audioandmusic.dyndns.org/musicbrainz_artist_genres.txt.gz
via http://mashed-audioandmusic.dyndns.org/#artistgenre
[[
Genres for set of MusicBrainz Artists
We have built a list of genres for MusicBrainz
Hi folks
I'm thinking about metadata for news articles, and looking at the BBC
site I wonder if anyone has a database of the cross-links between
articles. Presumably these could be crawled and extracted with a bit of
perubyl.
eg. today's http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7520803.stm
Ian Forrester wrote:
http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
I got to say this came out of the blue for me...
Why does everything have to be a 'killer'?
I guess there's no single shorthand word that you can drop-in as a
replacement. Maybe rival? tribute? clone? ...
But yay, 3d in the
David Greaves wrote:
Not seen this pop up on the list:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
Not so much the message which not everyone agrees with - but I am impressed to
see the point-of-view coming from a mainstream source :)
Richard Stallman is a mainstream source now? Damn
Peter Bowyer wrote:
You pretty much talked yourself out of that one, then :-)
Peter
2008/7/4 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi, just browsing the news and I wanted to send a link to a friend, and was
wondering if it would be good to have a switch we could append to the URL,
to make the video
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/7/4 simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Surely the main thing is that we preserve our freedom to understand
and share the software we use to do our computation.
I propose a six-week moratorium on the use of the word 'surely' in this
debate.
Using software running on
Andrew Bowden wrote:
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 updated.
The Movies site (and it's associated section on BBCi) formally closed on
6 May 2008 - they've left the
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/5/2 Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
simon wrote:
Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V
specifications says Aral Balkan: http://aralbalkan.com/1332
Interesting, I thought.
I'll be interested to get Dave Crossland's perspective on this.
Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 01/05/2008, *Martin Belam* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a piece on this in The Guardian today - he makes some
interesting points but at one stage he suggests that Facebook is a
closed system, and that nobody can move onto
Matt Barber wrote:
It's interesting the way the Facebook can pull data from other systems (ie,
your email contacts list) but has no export.
I thought about writing one, I wondered if I would get blocked from doing
it...
I *think* as long as you're logged in as you, and they are your
contacts,
Paul Tweedy wrote:
In some circumstances, yes HTTP_REFERER is fine.
However query strings are arguably a useful method in some
circumstances
- feeds being a prime one. Reading a feed in Bloglines for
example wouldn't give you a good way of tracking.
So then that leads to the question of
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp
[[
Page Three Teens
Duration: 60 minutes
Documentary following Chelsea White, a teenager considering a career as
a Page 3 girl, as she learns about the glamour industry for the two
months leading up her 18th birthday.
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
But the right thing to do in this example. A resource shouldn't have
different URLs depending on where you click from, so if you can't track
the outgoing link for some reason then a query parameter seems correct
to me.
Logging HTTP_REFERER isn't an option? Bummer-ouch.
Iain Wallace wrote:
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
But the right thing to do in this example. A resource shouldn't have
different URLs depending on where you click from, so if you can't track the
outgoing link for some reason then a query parameter seems correct to me.
Logging HTTP_REFERER isn't an
Tim Duckett wrote:
On 15 Apr 2008, at 05:41, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Oh right, you mean like this...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/14/bbc.digitalmedia1
The former Microsoft executive Erik Huggers
Give the guy a break - so, he worked for Microsoft in the past.
Let's assume
Dear backstage.co.uk admins,
These DRM discussions are just so much fun, ... maybe they deserve a
whole email list all to themselves?
cheers,
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Martin Belam wrote:
The difference is that the BBC could drop the probability to zero by
not requiring the use of proprietary software...
Or by closing the list if it was deemed to be an unhelpful echo
chamber that wasn't beneficial to the BBC for the amount of money
spent on the
Barry Carlyon wrote:
I had heard that one of the student radio stations was building a flash
player for their radio stream for the wii…..
FWIW Flash works in Opera on the wii,
http://www.opera.com/products/devices/nintendo/
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Ian Forrester wrote:
Seeing how everyone's so vocal about the BBC recently, I thought it was worth
turning our attention to the W3C (yeah it wasn't as slick a transition as it
should have been)
Mark Pilgrim outlines the friction which is building up between developers in
the field and the
* Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-26 14:01+0100]
Live now
Looks like Mysql needs restarting...
http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/admin/backstage/socket/mysql.sock' (111)
Dan
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* Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-08 17:03-]
wow. much, much respect Mario...
+1
Yes, this is wonderful, and I've heard only positive feedback so far.
It'd be great to see this go into (some level of) production usage.
(I'd be happy to help in any way...)
cheers,
Dan
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* Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-07 15:49-]
Following a conversation with Dan Brickley, who pointed me to Ian
Forrester's post on BBC Persian being filtered in Iran (see
http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/culture/?permalink=BBC-Persian-filtered-out
* Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-24 21:58+]
At 21:37 + 23/2/06, Nick B wrote:
I'm trying it with MSN Messenger, and have received nothing in days.
Cannot use the command leave. And trying to join again says I'm
already registered.
Is it borked?
Works for me. Here is
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