On 27 May 2010, at 20:42, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Personally, all my use of iPlayer content is to fetch something I'm
> already aware of; I'm not just browsing randomly. And for that, I find
> that a command line tool gives a _much_ better experience than any
> point-and-drool GUI could ever pr
ahead. It was useful for setting
> reminders for certain programs.
>
> Rgds,
> Andy
>
> On 1 March 2010 12:29, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
> Hi Andy
>
> No idea if Davis's feeds are still working, but this is now supported by
> /programmes. For example:
>
> htt
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
Cheers
Jonathan
On 28 Feb 2010, at 21:36, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> that's excellent, but there must be more...
>
> and where is the central search facility?
>
> best
>
> ~:"
>
> On 28 Feb 2010, at 20:37, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
On 28 Feb 2010, at 22:24, Ian Stirling wrote:
> But the index is freely available.
> Just past the tiger, down the flight of stairs (bring your own torch) all
> nicely card-indexed.
Heh. I wish that wasn't as accurate as it is.
Much of the BBC's Archive (the documents and photos, but thankfully
Whilst, as already mentioned, rights agreements stop us from doing this for
most programmes, there are cases where we can do it. It's even part of the
service licence for Radio 4.
>From
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/service_licences/radio/2008/radio4_Apr08
On 3 Feb 2010, at 13:09, Mo McRoberts wrote:
Really really not a fan of Boxee's UI. Nor XMBC's, for that matter.
Both seem pretty sluggish on the aTV, especially compared to the
native UI.
Which is exactly why I made this. I didn't buy an Apple TV to run Boxee.
Cheers
Jonathan
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On 3 Feb 2010, at 10:51, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
On 2 Feb 2010, at 21:14, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
I've been working on something over the last few weeks that might
be of interest to a few people here: an Apple TV plugin for BBC
iPlayer.
Details are here:
http://jonathan.tweed
On 2 Feb 2010, at 21:43, Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 2-Feb-2010, at 21:14, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
I've been working on something over the last few weeks that might
be of interest to a few people here: an Apple TV plugin for BBC
iPlayer.
Ohhh, very nice work!
Not tried it yet, mind.
Hi
I've been working on something over the last few weeks that might be
of interest to a few people here: an Apple TV plugin for BBC iPlayer.
Details are here:
http://jonathan.tweed.name/2010/02/02/bbc-iplayer-for-apple-tv/
And the source is here:
http://github.com/jtweed/bbciplayer-applet
I'm about as far from Linux on the desktop as you can get, but I think
that's a little unfair.
It's no different from talking about .pkg or .msi files on Mac OS X or
Windows. Your mum might not be interested in the specifics but this is
technical list and so at times people are likely to ta
Hi Andy
On 17 Feb 2009, at 21:27, Andy wrote:
What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as "Top Gear"
and getting back "b006mj59" and preferably the name of the programme
incase of partial matches.
Of course it's possible to spider data from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z/by/[
On 17 Jun 2008, at 10:27, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Why is this?
I can't really go into the specific why.
More generally What's On and the Radio Times are fed by a different
system than iPlayer and Programmes, which accounts for the discrepancy.
Needless to say we are working to resolve th
Surely the point is that flash embedded content is a plain, simple,
easy thing that works. That makes it more user friendly than before.
Cheers
Jonathan
On 13 Jun 2008, at 12:08, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anything is possible, of course, but people want plain simple easy
things that work t
On 13 May 2008, at 14:02, Brian Butterworth wrote:
http://zattoo.com/
Thanks for that Brian, what a fantastic service.
It would be real shame if this was closed down. I can now watch
channels I haven't been able to watch since I moved flat last October!
Surely in London I should be gettin
2008 8:48 PM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] "b00b3zjr"
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:53, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp
>>
>> Page Three Teens
>>
>>
On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:53, Dan Brickley wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp
Page Three Teens
Whose cool URI is that?
We are not worthy :)
Yeah we've been having a good laugh about that one in the PIPs team.
I swear it wasn't deliberate ;-)
We even remove
On 18 Mar 2008, at 12:58, Iain Wallace wrote:
However it was made very clear from the start that the only thing
that those discussing iPlayer couldn't do was try to break any
protections on the content. That's what is causing the problems on
the list and the only thing on the wiki that is co
On 18 Mar 2008, at 09:15, Iain Wallace wrote:
As you wish: http://beebhack.bluwiki.com/
I think I entirely misunderstood what the point of this mailing list
was. I was encouraged to come here to discuss running the iPlayer on
exotic platforms but now we're actually doing it it seems it's a tabo
Hi
I've just released an update to the iPlayer Facebook application that
has user compatibility features a la Last.fm.
It's a bit primitive at the moment but I've detailed the problems and
my current thinking here:
http://jonathan.tweed.name/2008/01/lastfm-for-television
I'd love to get
On 21 Jan 2008, at 02:09, Christopher Woods wrote:
I was going through the archives and saw that, which made me wonder
- almost
five months have passed, and aside from the Flash streaming - which
did
indeed make its debut just before the end of last year - has the
acquisition
of Mr. Rose a
On Fri Jan 18 12:17:02 UTC 2008, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Graeme Mulvaney wrote:
> > It would be good if you could provide 'bookmarks' into some of the
> > current affairs/magazine style programming - e.g. you could jump to a
> > particular report in 'the culture show' or skip to th
On Fri Jan 11 10:23:14 UTC 2008, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I see two PIDs the original one "b007cjrb" and the one from versions:
> "b006py02"
> I am guessing I use the second one?
Correct. Episodes are conceptual and are not broadcast directly. They can have
many versions and it is th
On 19 Dec 2007, at 10:43, Brian Butterworth wrote:
6. Icons. Since Windows 3, the "down triangle" has been used to
mean "drop down menu". I know web designers HATE following UI
hints that users have known for decades, but it does make it easier
to use. If you could refer to:
http://msd
12:00, Tom Loosemore wrote:
Seconded. It rocks.
On 13/12/2007, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jonathan,
Thanks for doing that, it's great. It certainly addresses the
concerns I
had before.
On 13/12/2007, Jonathan Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 13 Dec 2007,
On 13 Dec 2007, at 12:41, Michael Smethurst wrote:
Just to confirm that jonathan tweed has already done most of the
work to
make json and yaml representations of /programmes
Fingers crossed for some time in January. We'll also have XML thanks
to those who came to the talk at Ba
On 13 Dec 2007, at 00:10, Adam Leach wrote:
With the annoucement that iPlayer is apparently going live on
Christmas day, are there any plans to provide links to the programs
on iPlayer in the TV-Anytime data feeds.
I really wish I had good news for you here. I'm *still* scraping the
iPlay
On 5 Dec 2007, at 12:57, "vijay chopra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Fair enough, in that case for this project the BSD or Apache
licenses make the most sense as to use.
It would be better to take the standard Perl approach and license it
under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. dual license
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:34:49 +, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> If they are to be reproduced in newspapers and the like, then they codes
> really need to be case insensitive and treat zero/O and one/I as the same
> character. This would allow a total of 34 characters (alpha
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:15:41 +, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Looks like an unmanageable mess to me. I must prefer a database table,
> much
> easier to manage, especially if the short code is translated into a
> integer.
Or if that's the case you could make the algorithm
Hi
Some answers inline below.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:30:19 +0100, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is iPlayer using to hold it's Meta data?
iPlayer gets its metadata from an internal BBC product called Pips, which has
been previously discussed on this list (I work on Pips). Pips receiv
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:55:02 +0100, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Just been thinking about this a bit more and it seems to me that each page
> of the iPlayer should be presenting an RSS fee anyway. It seems the site
> uses a parameter line this...
>
> ?filter=txdate:13-08&filte
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:59:53 +0100, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Which reminds me, why doesn't Virgin Media use their 100Mb/s connections
> they use to connect to the set-top boxes and cable modems to provide a
> 100Mb/s service - they could blow BSkyB out of the water as AD
On 13 Aug 2007, at 19:22, Brian Butterworth wrote:
That would be excellent - if the expire date and time could be
included that would be very helpful.
Hi Brian
I'll pass this on.
Cheers
Jonathan
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:28:10 +0100, Jonathan Tweed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:09:02 +0100, "Brian Butterworth"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if the programme information is available as RSS feeds -
>> it w
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:09:02 +0100, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I was wondering if the programme information is available as RSS feeds -
> it would be nice to add a "now on iPlayer" feed to iGoogle or to another
> site...
It would very nice Brian. Unfortunately at the mome
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:25:10 +0100, James Bridle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Outside the DRM/platform debate around the iPlayer, here's another
> alleged issue that may end up affecting far more users as it is a lot
> more comprehensible to non-geeks. The fact that it's propagating via
> Facebo
On 27 Jul 2007, at 16:18, James Bridle wrote:
Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in XP on my Intel Mac...
I installed it under Parallels on my MacBook Pro yesterday. No
problems during installation (I had sorted out any WMP issues a
couple of months ago when I last tried it).
T
On 27 Jul 2007, at 20:34, Christopher Woods wrote:
, that's nice! Installed and worked first time with my
closed beta
login, I might as well do a little addition to my beta test blog
iplayer
entry in a bit :)
Thanks. I'm relieved to hear it installed ok and that you like it.
(http
On 27 Jul 2007, at 18:50, Gary Kirk wrote:
For those who aren't in the beta, could you please explain what it
does?
Hi Gary
The Facebook application lets you search for programmes on iPlayer
and shows you the current top picks as well as last night's TV. You
can then rate and comment on
On 27 Jul 2007, at 20:28, Eamonn Neylon wrote:
Does the BBC need a new queuing system, perchance? I signed up this
morning, and all I’ve had is a website response saying ‘If we're
able to invite you' – guess that’s a ‘no’ then ….
Registering an interest on the site doesn't get you immediate
Hi
Those who you who were at Hackday will remember Ben Smith and I demoing an
iPlayer Facebook application. We have just launched the application to coincide
with today's launch of iPlayer.
Those of you who have access to the iPlayer beta can install the Facebook
application here:
http://apps
On 27 Jul 2007, at 09:08, Steve Jolly wrote:
Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it’ll be available?
This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the
27^th : -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
When I go to that link I see a "Find out more and register..." link
that take
On 27 Jul 2007, at 08:55, Phil Winstanley wrote:
Any idea what time it’ll be available?
This press release [1] says it’ll be available from here on the
27th: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
Hi Phil
No idea what the official line is, but the registration form has been
up since last night.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:32:18 +0100, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Plus ca change?
True, but the data differs in content as well as conceptual structure. I'm not
overly familiar with the BBC Web API but there also seems to be more metadata
in Pips.
Pips is episode centric. You can
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:19:34 +0100, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following from the debate about links for programmes... how about this?
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/bbc_web_api_beta - found via George.
Funny this should come up now.
The system we were just talking about
Hi All
The first session from the London.pm Teach In is now online.
For those of you who use iTunes or an iPod, an enhanced podcast is available at
http://feeds.feedburner.com/perlteachin which not only has the audio but also
the slides, each one as a separate chapter.
Videos in h264 and Flash
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:09:24 +0100, James Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Fixed Length Trial? Public Value Test? (one has to love the steps to
> get something done. bravo for trying).
There's been a fair bit of BBC bashing on this list in the past, so thank you
for recognising that we do care
On 18 Apr 2007, at 20:03, James Cox wrote:
On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:34, Tom Loosemore wrote:
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set
up - it is a trial after all...).
The actual site itself is very n
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