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BBC Podcasts as OPML
29 February, 2008 - 85 words
The BBC make all of their podcast programme information available as an XML file.
Literally five minutes of XSLT gives me this:
http://philwilson.org/code/bbc-podcasts.xslt
$ xsltproc bbc-podcasts.xslt <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ppg....
More on the BBC iPlayer and RTMP
30 December, 2007 - 212 words
There appears to be some work going on to try and get iPlayer working on the XBox Media Center according to this thread on their forums (thanks for the link, Iain) and although it only seems to make progress up t...
Downloading from the BBC streaming iPlayer is hard
17 December, 2007 - 313 words
(this was mostly written on Friday 14th December, although no-one else seems to have stepped up to the plate yet)
The new Flash-based BBC iPlayer streams its content over Adobe’s proprietary RTMP, making it very hard to download the stream and save it for later.
Ther...
BBC Podcasts list to OPML
02 October, 2007 - 95 words
This is a stupid Greasemonkey script which looks at a BBC podcast listings page and generates an OPML file. It’s a 20 minute hack and so is hard-coded for the Radio 4 podcasts – another five minutes should fix this. For the time being,
BBC Podcasts list to OPML
02 October, 2007 - 95 words
This is a stupid Greasemonkey script which looks at a BBC podcast listings page and generates an OPML file. It’s a 20 minute hack and so is hard-coded for the Radio 4 podcasts – another five minutes should fix this. For the time being,
What's on telly instead?
26 September, 2007 - 125 words
What’s on telly instead is a stupid Greasemonkey script that displays what the BBC are broadcasting on TV and radio at the same time as an event marked up with hCal. It’s very basic and only supports events where dtstart and dtend ...
What's on telly instead?
26 September, 2007 - 125 words
What’s on telly instead is a stupid Greasemonkey script that displays what the BBC are broadcasting on TV and radio at the same time as an event marked up with hCal. It’s very basic and only supports events where dtstart and dtend ...
From the UK, Amazon Unbox is shiny, exciting and cheap
11 September, 2006 - 330 words
It’s pretty funny reading comments like this Wired commentary on the newly launched Amazon Unbox, because despite the onerous DRM issues (which are definitely a problem, don’t get me wrong) – the UK has nothing...