Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 10/01/07, Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: Some BBC programs provide their scripts online, but I was wondering if it would be possible to provide ALL the subtitles used by the BBC (and other broadcasters) over the course of the day as RSS feeds? I asked some

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Kirk Northrop
Tom Loosemore wrote: if you want to play in private, and you're feeling quite hardcore, you *could* extract the subtitles from a DVB-S MPEG2 stream (aka a satellite stream) where they're still in there somewhere as ASCII. On DTT (Freeview) the subtitles are transmitted as bitmaps, so are hard

RE: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Jason Cartwright
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles? Tom Loosemore wrote: if you want to play in private, and you're feeling quite hardcore, you *could* extract the subtitles from a DVB-S MPEG2 stream (aka a satellite stream) where they're still

RE: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore Sent: 11 January 2007 10:03 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles? On 10/01/07, Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Somerville
Jason Cartwright wrote: Not sure what happened to it though - can't seem to find it on google.com. I guess its been drowned out by Google Video YouTube. It *was* Google Video, when it first launched: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/video.html But it doesn't seem to be there

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Somerville
Brian Butterworth wrote: Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a search feed, rather than a complete feed be OK with the Act? I would guess (IANAL) subtitles are part of the work, so would be copyrighted for

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 11/01/07, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a search feed, rather than a complete feed be OK with the Act? I would guess (IANAL)

RE: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Butterworth
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore Sent: 11 January 2007 13:42 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles? On 11/01/07, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian

RE: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles?

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Cashmore
@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore Sent: 11 January 2007 13:42 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS feeds of the BBC TV subtitles