I just got sent this:
*http://david.woodhou.se/get_iplayer_setup_4.0.exe *
On 28 May 2010 00:15, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 22:56 +0100, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
On 27 May 2010, at 20:42, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org 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 provide.
You're missing two very important words there: for you.
Surely those two words would be redundant, given that I already went
back to that sentence to insert the words 'I find that' before sending
it? That was certainly my intention.
But there _are_ GUI tools which make use of get_iplayer, such as the
get_iplayer.cgi script which runs a local web server and points your
browser at it. They haven't received a lot of love because most people
with sufficient clue to work on them don't really _care_ about such
things.
I think Kieran's point is that they should. That's what will drive
widespread adoption.
That presumes that they _want_ widespread adoption, of course. I can't
speak for them but personally, I don't really care very much about how
widely get_iplayer (or any other Free Software I work on) is adopted.
It's fun when people out there are using your code, but that kind of
lost its novelty after the first few million units shipped.
I started working on get_iplayer because I find it useful and I know
that other people find it useful too. Without it, the iPlayer is fairly
useless to me. My broadband at home is far too slow to watch things in
real time with any reasonable quality, BT want £128,000 to install a
second line, so my only real option is to download things and then watch
them.
I'm completely uninterested in the GUI side. I'd be the wrong person to
do any GUI support because I'd never want to _use_ anything like that.
If you or Kieran are actually _interested_ in the GUIs... have you
_looked_ at get_iplayer.cgi or at the iPlayer support in XBMC?
--
dwmw2
-
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
