[backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Pretty cool. I always thought those effects worked better with duplicate images though. Any chance of trying it again with the dups? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 21:58 Subject: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk On 17-Jun-2010, at 21:36, Brian Butterworth wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ *very* cool! Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... oh you’ll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair few which are BBC employees friends’ photos, some are captures, some are publicity shots… :) M. - 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] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Not really, the whole point was that I had 15,871 iPlayer images. Your suggestion sound like repeats to me On 18 June 2010 07:10, l...@leenukes.co.uk l...@leenukes.co.uk wrote: Pretty cool. I always thought those effects worked better with duplicate images though. Any chance of trying it again with the dups? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 21:58 Subject: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk On 17-Jun-2010, at 21:36, Brian Butterworth wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ *very* cool! Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... oh you’ll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair few which are BBC employees friends’ photos, some are captures, some are publicity shots… :) M. - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
very cool! just a naive question, what tool did you use to create the image? cheers, Jakob. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:42, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Not really, the whole point was that I had 15,871 iPlayer images. Your suggestion sound like repeats to me On 18 June 2010 07:10, l...@leenukes.co.uk l...@leenukes.co.uk wrote: Pretty cool. I always thought those effects worked better with duplicate images though. Any chance of trying it again with the dups? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 21:58 Subject: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk On 17-Jun-2010, at 21:36, Brian Butterworth wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ *very* cool! Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... oh you’ll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair few which are BBC employees friends’ photos, some are captures, some are publicity shots… :) M. - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 - 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] Little iPlayer icon mashup
My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) ³Does it link through to the episode for each image?² Heh! :o) G Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
I used AndreaMosiac in the end, very impressed actually. http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ On 18 June 2010 09:50, Jakob Fix jakob@gmail.com wrote: very cool! just a naive question, what tool did you use to create the image? cheers, Jakob. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:42, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Not really, the whole point was that I had 15,871 iPlayer images. Your suggestion sound like repeats to me On 18 June 2010 07:10, l...@leenukes.co.uk l...@leenukes.co.uk wrote: Pretty cool. I always thought those effects worked better with duplicate images though. Any chance of trying it again with the dups? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 21:58 Subject: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk On 17-Jun-2010, at 21:36, Brian Butterworth wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ *very* cool! Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... oh you’ll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair few which are BBC employees friends’ photos, some are captures, some are publicity shots… :) M. - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) “Does it link through to the episode for each image?” Heh! :o) G *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
That¹s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don¹t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) ³Does it link through to the episode for each image?² Heh! :o) G Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don’t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? The PID is in the image filename it links to.you could do a regexp-replace on the HTML... M. - 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] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don’t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) “Does it link through to the episode for each image?” Heh! :o) G *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
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 eg http://node2.bbcimg.co.uk/iplayer/images/episode/b00qm7zr_640_360.jpg via b00qm7zr curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qm7zr.rdf po:short_synopsisLooking at discoveries which suggest ageing is something flexible that can be manipulated./po:short_synopsis ... po:genre rdf:resource=/programmes/genres/factual#genre / po:genre rdf:resource=/programmes/genres/factual/scienceandnature#genre / po:format rdf:resource=/programmes/formats/documentaries#format / Surely some HTML5-type fun can be had with all that? :) Dan - 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] Little iPlayer icon mashup
This has prompted me to try my first Greasemonkey script! G On 18/6/10 11:58, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That¹s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don¹t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) ³Does it link through to the episode for each image?² Heh! :o) G Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205
RE: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk oh you'll never manage to answer that one. I know of a fair few which are BBC employees friends' photos, some are captures, some are publicity shots... :) The BBC employee ones usually come from a flickr pool IIRC so it's quite probable some will be released under a creative commons licence. - 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] Green Ink.
Gordon Joly wrote: On 17/06/2010 22:19, David Tomlinson wrote: 1. As a recipient of public money, the BBC can not discriminate against suppliers (requiring content control). 2. The BBC is subject to Public Service Obligations, and therefore must reach as wider range of the public as possible (not encrypting the EPG). 4. The BBC cannot enter into anti-competitive practices with other Broadcasters (to require Content Control). 5. The BBC cannot enter into anti-competitive practices with content distributors (Film Companies). 3. As a public body, the BBC cannot impose content management without a legal tribunal. Point 6? Point 6. I don't think I have been taking this issue seriously enough ... 6. Competition law applies equally to the Film Distributors. Just the two largest can exceed engaging in Anticompetitive Parallel Behaviour have 40% market share, 30% is required for a scale monopoly (UK law) or Oligopolistic Dominance (EU Law), and the figures were for world wide box office, not just the UK. I am using Box Office as a proxy for market power/share. A more formal analysis may be needed as the basis for legal action. - 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] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Glad to hear that. I've just changed the Javascript so that now you get the image for the programme when you hover, and you get the programme link when you click. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html On 18 June 2010 12:01, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: This has prompted me to try my first Greasemonkey script! G On 18/6/10 11:58, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don’t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) “Does it link through to the episode for each image?” Heh! :o) G *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Brian that¹s really cool! Can I email it round the UXD (user Experience and Design) team as a data visualisation? G On 18/6/10 15:11, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Glad to hear that. I've just changed the Javascript so that now you get the image for the programme when you hover, and you get the programme link when you click. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html On 18 June 2010 12:01, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: This has prompted me to try my first Greasemonkey script! G On 18/6/10 11:58, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That¹s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don¹t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) ³Does it link through to the episode for each image?² Heh! :o) G Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 Guy Strelitz Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy BBC Programmes On Demand Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Guy, Yes, of course. On 18 June 2010 15:18, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Brian that’s really cool! Can I email it round the UXD (user Experience and Design) team as a data visualisation? G On 18/6/10 15:11, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Glad to hear that. I've just changed the Javascript so that now you get the image for the programme when you hover, and you get the programme link when you click. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/pandorica_with_links.html On 18 June 2010 12:01, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: This has prompted me to try my first Greasemonkey script! G On 18/6/10 11:58, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Yes, the PID is there, the redirect could just point to http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/PID On 18 June 2010 11:41, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: That’s very cool! It starts to turn it into a data visualisation tool/toy... I think my IA mate was talking about actually linking through to the programme, on iPlayer or /programmes. Don’t suppose you still have the PIDs associated with the images do you? G On 18/6/10 11:36, 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 On 18 June 2010 09:59, Guy Strelitz guy.strel...@bbc.co.uk wrote: My IA colleague asks (and I quote word for word) “Does it link through to the episode for each image?” Heh! :o) G *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 On 17/6/10 21:36, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: Hi, I read http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/16/stephen-fry-doctor-who So, I found a folder with 15,871 very small caches of the pictures used for each of the iPlayer programmes. Well, they were when I removed 90,000 duplicates. I've made 5,000 of the programme images into a single relevant image. http://bnb.bpweb.net/iplayerimages/ Zoom in. I should speculate about the copyright... -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 *Guy Strelitz *Technical Lead, External Projects Integration Consultancy *BBC Programmes On Demand *Room 618, Henry Wood House Langham Place, London W1B 3DF 020 7765 0205 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] Little iPlayer icon mashup
Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv writes: 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 I guess the next trick is to add some Javascript so that when you click on one of the images, it then makes *that* image out of the others. You'd need a cache of the average pixel values for all the other images... -- Adam Sampson a...@offog.org http://offog.org/ - 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] Little iPlayer icon mashup
On 18 June 2010 20:47, Adam Sampson a...@offog.org wrote: Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv writes: 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 I guess the next trick is to add some Javascript so that when you click on one of the images, it then makes *that* image out of the others. You'd need a cache of the average pixel values for all the other images... There is the small matter of the several minutes it takes to generate the image, even on my four-core machine. I guess you could cache all 5000 possibilities. -- Adam Sampson a...@offog.org http://offog.org/ - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
