When at the BBC a couple of years ago i asked who owned copyright on BBC subtitles with a view to getting a feed onto backstage (remember the indies... and that subtitle creation is outsourced at least some of the time to Red Bee)
answer came there none... i suspect because no-one had asked the question before, and therefore getting to an answer was Hard 2008/6/4 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jonathan, > > 2008/6/4 Jonathan Hassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Tom - good question. I don't have the answer for you immediately but, as >> one of the people behind subtitling online at the BBC, I'll look into this >> for you. > > I'm really pleased to hear this. I've been going on about it for years and > met with reasons why not. > > What would be LOVELY would be if the subtitles could be combined with timing > information and then this could be linked to the iPlayer. > > So, you could come to Google (or the BBC Search) and enter a phrase you > heard during a programme and not just find the programme and the timing, but > directly link to the actual point in the programme on the iPlayer. > >> >> J. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk <backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk> >> Sent: Wed Jun 04 09:31:21 2008 >> Subject: Re: [backstage] Adding Subtitles/transcripts to /programmes pages >> >> 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/ > > > > -- > Brian Butterworth > > http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, > since 2002 - 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/
