I think I replied to this on a non-list-registered address last night. Discussions around iPlayer seem to hit a taboo around about the point where you try and build something which displays the video outside of its original enclosure. When the iPhone version launched there was a lot of excited discussion about that and we got told to keep it quiet on here, so I set up a wiki so developers building unofficial iPlayer clients could share notes:
http://beebhack.wikia.com/ Hopefully there should be some useful info on there for you, and once you publish your app you can add it to our list of unofficial clients. If you want to borrow code from apps already out there using metadata, get_iplayer consumes just about any audio and video data and metadata you'd care to mention: http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/ Please add to the wiki if you dig up anything we've missed. Cheers, Iain On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Dave Addey <listma...@addey.com> wrote: > Hi Backstage, > > I’ve been working on fixing the iPlayer plugin for the Mac OS X media centre > app “Plex”. The updated plugin seems to be working pretty well by reading > the BBC RSS feeds and JSON feeds, but I have a few questions: > > 1) Are there any issues with integrating iPlayer into an app like Plex? > (I’m not trying to work around the geographical restrictions on iPlayer > access, I should add – I’m just providing a wrapper for the iPlayer flash > player from within Plex.) I’m aware that doing so could be likely to break > at any time if the iPlayer site were to change. (You can view Plex here: > http://www.plexapp.com/) > > 2) Assuming this isn’t a problem legally, is there anywhere I can find a > list of all of the potential subcategories / subgenres used by iPlayer? I > can see a list of those with at least one current programme assigned to > them, but I don’t know if this list is complete. For example, Children’s > > Activities, Children’s > Animation, etc. > > 3) Is there a feed (RSS / JSON / something else) which can be used for > searching? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > - Dave. - 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/
