Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-18 Thread Gordon Joly
For those of you who don't know, this is an XML format for storing "subtitles" or "captions" (if you're in the USA). Also known as "closed captioning" See:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning http://www.robson.org/capfaq/ Gordo -- "Think Feynman"/ http://pobox.com

RE: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread James Mastros
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:39 +0100, Ben Metcalfe wrote: > > So here's a thought : Supposing each broadcast program is > > subtitled - most > > are, to meet disability guidelines for deaf viewers. How > > about publishing > > the subtitle files as part of backstage, in W3C TT format > > (maybe

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Hywel Williams
At 09:47 15/09/2005 +0100, you wrote: Could you also see if it's possible to review the names, the mix of upper case and lower case etc make them look really bad if you display them directly and having to manually edit them is a pain! I agree - the capitalised text represent top level genres b

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Hywel Williams
At 10:23 15/09/2005 +0200, you wrote: Are you just changing the genres or are you also introducing some 2004 elements with namespace and all? TVA's atrocious practice of changing namespaces when they change versions could introduce all manners of problems for implementations if the upgrade isn

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Graeme Mulvaney
Perhaps you could get around copyright issues by 'doing a Google' and launching a 'beta' service ;) On 9/15/05, Hywel Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 11:15 15/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:>At 18:32 14/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:>>Some bug fixes and modifications have been made to the data set - th

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Hywel Williams
At 11:15 15/09/2005 +0100, you wrote: At 18:32 14/09/2005 +0100, you wrote: Some bug fixes and modifications have been made to the data set - these are outlined below. 2. When audio description is being provided for a programme, this is indicated with an extra AudioAtrributes entry with an Au

RE: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Ben Metcalfe
> So here's a thought : Supposing each broadcast program is > subtitled - most > are, to meet disability guidelines for deaf viewers. How > about publishing > the subtitle files as part of backstage, in W3C TT format > (maybe in the > final draft format until the complete spec is ratified).

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Kirk Northrop
Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote: Food for thought ? That's a really nice idea. Obviously there could be a copyright problem, but then if all the TV programmes are (eventually) going to be available to download to us in the UK, why not? -- From the North, this is Kirk www.broadcastings

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
At 18:32 14/09/2005 +0100, you wrote: Some bug fixes and modifications have been made to the data set - these are outlined below. 2. When audio description is being provided for a programme, this is indicated with an extra AudioAtrributes entry with an AudioLanguage purpose of type 1 (Audio d

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 14 Sep 2005, at 18:32, Hywel Williams wrote: Some forthcoming changes/issues. 1. It has been pointed out that the format of the DVB locator used in the ContentReferencing Tables and the ProgramLocation tables don't conform to the DVB standard! Essentially the divider between the date

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-15 Thread Robin Berjon
Hywel Williams wrote: 1. The character set being used is now correctly identified as ISO-8859-9. This was always the case but the ISO-8859-1 ident was incorrectly displayed. Really? Isn't -9 Turkish? Why not use UTF-8 and be safe no matter what happens? 3. Currently, the 2002 genre classif

Re: [backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-14 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:32 +0100, Hywel Williams wrote: > 2. More channels have been requested. I'm currently testing the inclusion > of almost all BBC regional radio stations in the schedules. The main > issue is that at present they don't represent occasions when more than one > regional s

[backstage] Some changes to the TV-Anytime data

2005-09-14 Thread Hywel Williams
Some bug fixes and modifications have been made to the data set - these are outlined below. 1. The character set being used is now correctly identified as ISO-8859-9. This was always the case but the ISO-8859-1 ident was incorrectly displayed. 2. When audio description is being provided for