RE: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-03-01 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
The BBC does make some programmes available all the time They are a small number of speech radio programmes to which the BBC has all the rights. Sadly with other programmes (radio programmes with music, TV programmes) the rights situation is very complicated. -Original Message- From:

RE: [backstage] A quick Dolby E question

2010-03-01 Thread Kieran Kunhya
--- On Sun, 28/2/10, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: From: Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] A quick Dolby E question To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Date: Sunday, 28 February, 2010, 18:05 SurCode's stuff can produce 24-bit Dolby-E iirc.

Re: [backstage] Re: BBC Experimental Website Down?

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew McParland
Hi, Apologies - the move and unexpected connectivity loss did take the API out for a while. Should be back now for you? I can't access it internally, but hey, we have our own connectivity issues :-) I do suggest people use /programmes instead though. Our experimental service won't last

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Rissen
though I wonder how complicated the rights situation is, in reality. I'm sure it's not simple, but I do worry that people get scared off by the word 'rights', and then don't try and investigate/question how we can offer the best to the audience whilst still acknowledging the contributions of

[backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Andy Smelt
Hi, Have just joined this list in order to find out what has happened to the BBC Google Calendars. They seem to have disappeared. I, for one (perhaps the only one!) found them very useful. Can anyone shed any light? Best Rgds, Andy

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/03/10 10:09, Paul Rissen wrote: Rights are important, and should be respected - but shouldn't be used as a weapon to scare off questions/solutions... And we've known that we need to tackle rights on new work (the rats nest of pre-digital rights would probably require legislation to

[backstage] BBC Trust won't probe iPlayer open source gripes

2010-03-01 Thread Glyn Wintle
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/no_bbc_trust_probe_iplayer_swf_verification/ The governing body of the BBC has no plans to investigate the Corporation's decision to block open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, despite grumbles from

RE: [backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Ian Forrester
I'm not totally sure which ones you mean but the backstage one still exists (although I got to say I've not updated it much recently) http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/calendar or if you prefer -

RE: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-03-01 Thread Ian Forrester
Your right about the lawyers. As default they suggest you would be a mug to give away any part of the rights. I know I'm slightly bias but can I suggest http://free-culture.cc/ the book to anyone interested in how complex rights can get. When started RDTV, we took the stance of not using

RE: [backstage] New prototype

2010-03-01 Thread Ian Forrester
Ah yes that's a lot nicer on the eyes now. I'll get a new screenshot up soon Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/03/10 11:22, Ian Forrester wrote: Your right about the lawyers. As default they suggest you would be a mug to give away any part of the rights. In my experience there are very, very few lawyers who can help work through more creative models. I've even been surprised by some of the

Re: [backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Andy Smelt
I mean the BBC program guide calendars which were a prototype developed by Davis Buxton. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/04/icalendar_versi.html e.g. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/04/icalendar_versi.html webcal://gasmark6.com/guide/bbc/BBCRFour.ics

Re: [backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Hi Andy No idea if Davis's feeds are still working, but this is now supported by /programmes. For example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules.ics Cheers Jonathan On 1 Mar 2010, at 11:55, Andy Smelt wrote: I mean the BBC program guide calendars which were a prototype developed

Re: [backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:55, Andy Smelt andysm...@gmail.com wrote: I mean the BBC program guide calendars which were a prototype developed by Davis Buxton. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2007/04/icalendar_versi.html e.g. webcal://gasmark6.com/guide/bbc/BBCRFour.ics You can

RE: [backstage] A quick Dolby E question

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher Woods
From that document Flipfactory only seems to support 16/20 bit modes. I've tried both SoundCode and Surcode and they are only 16/20 bit as well. Huh, I (thought I was) reliably informed SurCode could handle 24. Well, if that lot doesn't work I suspect you're talking Dolby-only hardware if

Re: [backstage] BBC Google Calendars

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Hi Andy Not sure why it's not working in Google Calendar. That URL should update every day with the schedule for that day. There are week views, but unfortunately they're not available in ics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/south_east/this_week/grid I guess there's still