bpa wrote: > Programmes are identified by the vpid (not pid) but vpid can be a brand, > a channel and lots of other things (check out BBC programme ontology - > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies
I must admit, I hadn't realised there was so much documentation available. Nevertheless, I can't work out what the difference between a pid and a vpid is, although I've seen similar hash-looking things applied to brands, episodes, images, etc. The "Programme Ontology" seems to call them "POs". I agree with you that encouraging use of these APIs and then pulling the rug out again a few years later is pretty shoddy behaviour. I think it's a result of too many managers (all of whom have to come up with new imperatives to justify their position) and too little money to let people quietly doing a good job get on with it. I'm probably oversimplifying it (you've referred to new platforms making existing systems obsolete, for example). > To convert a vpid to a playable URL can vary over time, the source and > age (i.e. archive or recent) of the programs but for most normal > programs it is a case of wrapping the vpid into an mtis URL. If I look at the web page for a particular episode of a particular programme (say the "Gramophone" episode of 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04x6xg6), what is the "p04x6xg6"? pid? vpid? The JSON version of this page has no other identifying information, which is why I assumed this must be used by iPlayer (Triode's, not the official apps) to construct the playable URL (but I haven't looked at iPlayer to investigate). Do iPlayer / Extras (when data's available!) get a fully-formed URL from somewhere based on more than just this hash? > There is - it is called Nitro but mere mortals cannot use it > https://developer.bbc.co.uk/nitro We spoke about Nitro further up this topic a month or so ago. I meant to say there was no current way to get a Squeezebox to play anything from a couple of weeks ago. I was envisaging a text box, very much like the "Tune In URL" on the LMS Radio submenu that just took the pid / vpid (or extracted it from a longer URL to make copy & paste easier) discovered from the web browser as a quick and dirty method of playing any given programme. I've listened to "50 Things...", as it happens, because this programme has an mp3 url published due to its availability as a podcast, but how can I play "Just a Minute" from 4 April...? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BobSammers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72709 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
