Re: [backstage] Prototype: BBCBOT

2005-10-31 Thread Matthew Somerville
James wrote: I've made an addition to the BBCBOT, its a small application which sits in the systray and pops up a notification when your show is about to start. It removes the MSN feature and I think its a better idea. Now, I probably wouldn't install a separate application (and/or Java

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Kim Plowright
Title: Message From an internal perspective Yes! seperate out Series, Episode numbers and Ep Titles into clear fields. It's really useful if you were to use TV anytime data to populate programme support sites like, say, bbc.co.uk/buffy or /theoffice - and becomes really important for

Re: [backstage] CoolStream/PPLive

2005-10-31 Thread Angelo
Why do you ask Tom?On 27/10/05, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolStreaming http://www3.pplive.com/english/ anyone played with these? (no, this isn't a trick question...) -- Angelo

Re: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread James Mastros
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:07 +, Hywel Williams wrote: I can't see anything wrong with the times in the data sets both for today and the 29th's tarball. Remember that they're all in UTC (hence the Z at the end of the time), so anything up until 31st October appears to be out of synch by

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Kim Plowright
Title: Message [Taking this back on list as need the attention of the TV anytime guys] LOL - If anything, I'm Ms Web Editorial - I'm a content producer with small grasp of technical stuff, who just happens to be reasonably good at translating technical stuff into useful content ideas. I've

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Hywel Williams
At 11:45 31/10/2005 +, you wrote: From an internal perspective Yes! seperate out Series, Episode numbers and Ep Titles into clear fields. It's really useful if you were to use TV anytime data to populate programme support sites like, say, bbc.co.uk/buffy or /theoffice - and becomes really

Re: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Amias Channer
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:32:11 - Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: little britain I'm a lady /little britain *snigger* , do you work in the comedy department too ;) Toodle-pip Amias - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Tim Thornton
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:32:11 - Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The set-to-record from trailer is a great idea - and you're right, should be possible / doable. The problem is, i think, that CRID isn't widely used across the whole industry - i don't know if TV anytime is used by

RE: [backstage] Timezone bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Hywel Williams
At 14:32 31/10/2005 +, you wrote: [Taking this back on list as need the attention of the TV anytime guys] LOL - If anything, I'm Ms Web Editorial - I'm a content producer with small grasp of technical stuff, who just happens to be reasonably good at translating technical stuff into useful

Re: [backstage] annotatable audio

2005-10-31 Thread James
Looks awesome. Suppose you create the chapter's for the file, is the intention that this can be made available for download and perhaps combine to use the ID3 v2 CHAP Chapters? Is the idea to also allow for multiple sets of meta data to exist for the same audio stream (e.g. one user may

[backstage] Programme Archive/Message Board beta

2005-10-31 Thread Jem Stone
I've just blogged some news just in about work that Matt and Ben have been doing for us opening up the BBC's programme archive which Tom alluded to his mail to the list last week. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2005/10/programme_archi.html Also our message board team have just released