Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition

2005-09-01 Thread Dogsbody
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of sending this we haven’t received any entries at all. Ouch! Much as others have said, time is a factor. A number of the forums/websites that I use

Re: [backstage] Weather feeds

2005-10-20 Thread Dogsbody
According to my mole in weather, the feeds are ready, but awaiting Ben's return to be launched. This is assuming there aren't any HPIs (horrible policy issues) that neither of us know about... This is, of course, the unofficial answer! *Does his happy dance* ... sorry about that! :-) Do

[backstage] Video articles feed (Was: TV-Anytime regional opt-out files)

2005-10-27 Thread Dogsbody
I've got sky, and sometimes watch different regional news programmes or versions of the politics show - some of the regional news programmes are excellent, but as they're all simulcast I tend to miss out on stuff. Would it be feasible to have a channel that recycled features from these

Re: [backstage] Prototype: BBCBOT

2005-10-27 Thread Dogsbody
Now, what I'd *really* want is this hooked up to a networked MythTV / Topsfield PVR at home, so I could set it to record stuff while I'm at work... I know some of the UK MythTV hackers have got an irc interface that works similarly... I have that now with my TiVo :-D and I do love it ;-)

Re: [backstage] More feeds - BBC News AV RSS!

2005-11-03 Thread Dogsbody
if you use firefox and greasemonkey see my script here: http://www.blueghost.co.uk/bbc_vp.html it should show a link to the media file, see the screenshots on the website Unfortunately we use Mozilla at work! :-( Still, I'll use your plug-in at home :-) Thanks Dan - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Weather feeds

2005-11-15 Thread Dogsbody
Is there any word on when the weather feeds are being released? I went to OpenTech 05, and I seem to recall it was happening next week! Oh, it's a long story - but I'm sorry it's been delayed and I'm hoping we can get this out in the next 14 days or so. Sorry for sending a chase but I'm

Re: [backstage] New backstage.bbc.co.uk website

2006-10-05 Thread Dogsbody
* Mailing list management (links to archive etc) Some people love mailing lists and some love forums. Peoples reasons are many and varied but I have seen a few really good implementations that use both and tie them together. With a good implementation this works REALLY well, you can have

Re: [backstage] Tags du jour

2007-08-23 Thread Dogsbody
Soon we're going to have more social bookmarking icons than actual content... I want to add this to MediaWiki. Anyone know how, or has done it? Create a template and add it to each page... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template or add it to the navigation

Re: [backstage] Tags du jour

2007-08-23 Thread Dogsbody
I want to add this to MediaWiki. Anyone know how, or has done it? Create a template and add it to each page... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template or add it to the navigation sidebar... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Navigation_bar Answering my own post!! Here's the

Re: [backstage] Tags du jour

2007-08-23 Thread Dogsbody
I want to add this to MediaWiki. Anyone know how, or has done it? Create a template and add it to each page... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template or add it to the navigation sidebar... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Navigation_bar Answering my own post!! Here's the

[backstage] Free .tk domains with nice API

2007-08-31 Thread Dogsbody
I just bumped into this while looking at all the domains that Google owned! :-p I didn't recognise .tk (belongs to three small islands off New Zealand, 12 square miles of land!). Is seems they are giving away free domains (forwarding) to anyone that wants them! Not only that but a few

Re: [backstage] A question about BBC-iPlayer_Setup.exe

2008-01-21 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, Can anyone help me with this please? Thank you very much Dan On 13/01/2008 13:01, Dogsbody was seen to type: Unlike the questions about the the iplayer itself I have a question regarding the exe that Windows users can use to download iplayer. I am trying to write a tool

[backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-17 Thread Dogsbody
Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have been googling on and off since last year, found nothing and you lot are the best people I know to ask! I'm looking for an open source video streaming server browser based video client for the video finish of a charity marathon I run. I'm

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-23 Thread Dogsbody
time. S. On Feb 17, 2008 10:18 PM, Dogsbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have been googling on and off since last year, found nothing and you lot are the best people I know to ask! I'm looking

Re: [backstage] Open source video streaming browser based video client

2008-02-24 Thread Dogsbody
If you know javascript, how about this one? Seems to do what you need: http://flowplayer.org/player/index.html This definitely looks interesting! Thanks Dan - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] A question about BBC-iPlayer_Setup.exe

2008-03-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 13/01/2008 13:01, Dogsbody was seen to type: Unlike the questions about the the iplayer itself I have a question regarding the exe that Windows users can use to download iplayer. I am trying to write a tool to monitor/filter web traffic and so I need to identify the media type of all files

Re: [backstage] A question about BBC-iPlayer_Setup.exe

2008-03-12 Thread Dogsbody
a .CAB package. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Dogsbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm still trying for find out more (you know when you get a challenge but just can't leave it until you have worked it out!) but I have some more info if anyone is interested or can help? :-) My

Re: [backstage] Web Semantics - Slicing The Cake

2008-04-02 Thread Dogsbody
Really? I assume that Fearghas was talking about stuff like the Asus EEE (and the new Elonex One) rather than mobile phone like content. The EEE/Elonex/Cloudbook group of machines have fully functional OSes and fully functional browsers. They are far more like a PC than a mobile phone.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-09 Thread Dogsbody
In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm LOL, my GF sent this to me almost as soon as the news release came out! she wants this so badly! It says... Early versions of the service will be available from 9 April but more polished software will

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-14 Thread Dogsbody
LOL, my GF sent this to me almost as soon as the news release came out! she wants this so badly! And now she is complaining to me that programs seem to be missing or broken on the Wii version. :-( We went to watch Dr Who Confidential last night, the show stopped after 10mins... the flash

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-11 Thread Dogsbody
Glad to see you don't need RealPlayer any more to listen again, it uses Flash instead. Um, thanks for making internet radio _completely_ unavailable to me. Ditto! I can no longer listen to my favourite shows at all now! :-( Dan - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-12 Thread Dogsbody
Ditto! I can no longer listen to my favourite shows at all now! :-( Why? This change effects only *listen again* for one show. This suggests to me that you are comlaining about something you don't use. Sorry, I worded that badly, I meant if this was rolled out site wide. What

Re: [backstage] Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Dogsbody
Well that's certainly better than it crashing the entire browser! Slightly impressed, less than 24 hours after Google Chrome is released there is a crash exploit for it! http://evilfingers.com/advisory/google_chrome_poc.php Dan - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] I've woken up to a new world

2008-11-05 Thread Dogsbody
Proud to be living in California. It's time for change! :) Shame you passed Prop 8 though! :-/ 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:

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2009-01-16 Thread Dogsbody
Allowing embedding of user-specified clips (ie marking an in- and out-point) could be a nice way of allowing 'water cooler' moments to be easily shared, Even without embedding I would love to see this. Other video services allow you to jump to a specific start point and it would save all

Re: [backstage] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute

2009-01-20 Thread Dogsbody
I didn't know Tar was just a way to pack together files with no compression. Now tar.gz makes sense to me :) You know that zip has an option to not compress which would make it work in the same way as a tar file. While I prefer tar (and agree with other comments that tar/zip'ing stops

[backstage] Mozilla to support open video natively

2009-01-26 Thread Dogsbody
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will include native support for video in the browser and they have chosen Theora as the format of choice. Short post: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/01/26/advancing-open-video/ Long description: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=977 So does that mean we can have

Re: [backstage] What's the calendar app?

2009-07-13 Thread Dogsbody
Like the calendar at http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/node/11 What's the calendar app? I'm wanting to tie a calendar to a database of people, events and places using Drupal. The timeline is from 1950 to the present time so it needs flexibility and range. It's just a Google Calendar