Sorry to bring this topic back up but i would really like to hear from some of the people in the BBC about it.
Having the scripts of each show, either in pain text or other format, on the /programmes would be a great resource. it would allow people to search and find information/section of BBC content, which would attract users to the BBC, being a valuable index into the contents. This information, I would of expected to be, already be available from the subtitles that either BBC Subtitles or Red Bee (do they do BBC stuff as well as commercial stations?) so it shouldn't be a great effort to make this available. On a slightly selfish note, it would be great as I could use these on iplayer streams that don't have subtitles on my xmbc. I can easily see the xbmc-iplayer script being modified to be able to prefetch the programmes subtitles and play them with the stream. Would making this information publically available be a lot of effect? Am I being to hopeful? Many thanks Tom 2008/4/14 Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom Jacobs wrote: >> >> i think it would be really useful if the BBC made available the >> subtitles for their TV shows via the /programmes pages (or any other >> accessible, searchable API). > > Yes, it would be nice. > > You can get access to them via a DVB card in your PC, of course, but because > they're broadcast as pre-rendered bitmaps, you'd have to OCR them before you > could do anything useful with them. A few people have gone down this road - > some friends and I gave a talk and a demo on the subject back at Open Tech > 2005. > > http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/stephen_jolly.pdf > > S > > - > 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/ > - 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/
