Comments on: Further improvements to my BBC News Audio Video RSS output

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:28:36 +0000

Hi Anon

Try asking the BBC – they’re much more into AV/Media RSS than they were when I worked there (and built these feeds, and the ‘official BBC platform’ they run against).

Try getting in touch with them via http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3990000/newsid_3993900/3993909.stm

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:45:42 +0000

Any chance of getting a direct link to the two-minute news summary?

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:35:48 +0000

Hi, any chance of a format that i can play back on my PSP? that would be awsome as the new system software allows for rss video playback. It would be realy cool to sit in a wifi hotspot and just download the news rather than getting a paper

By: Bruce McKenzie

Bruce McKenzie — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:09:44 +0000

Thank’s Ben; a nice enhancement. Intended or not, one side effect is improved multi-tasking since one can now listen to a relevant article while continue to read non-AV posts in your newsreader:

http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blog/C959238993/E20060103204823/index.html

Certainly works well with Safari and Real Player!

By: R Freeman

R Freeman — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:49:12 +0000

Thomas – The ‘closed captioning’ information, which in the UK is called subtitling, isn’t obtainable via these clips. The subtitles are added to the video as they are transmitted, but the clips you see have been grabbed before they have gone through that transmission process.

PommieBar – why not try the ‘no nag’ version of RealPlayer which was made specially for the BBC?

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:Ben Metcalfe Blog » Blog Archive » BBC News offers AV RSS — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:57:22 +0000

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By: Shantanu Ganguly

Shantanu Ganguly — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:48:11 +0000

I’m using these RSS feeds with a RSS module in Meedio to watch streaming news on my HTPC. I can even search for specific newsclips based on keywords.

Thanks a lot for providing these feeds.

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:Ben Metcalfe Blog » Blog Archive » Blog birthday — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:44:19 +0000

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By: PommieBarsteward

PommieBarsteward — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:33:05 +0000

Hi, Ben,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

As it happens, I do still pay a licence fee if somewhat indirectly (think monthly divorce payments and you’ll get my drift). As for Real, I’ll pass on that as I don’t allow their products on my machine due to their cavalier attitude to privacy. I’ll settle for the podcasts so that I can listen to BBC radio without all the usual problems associated with steaming media and a 56k dialup account.

By: PommieBarsteward

PommieBarsteward — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:28:07 +0000

I understand why the Beeb has limited certain output to UK IP addresses but as an ex-pat Brit that now lives in Australia so I can’t help feeling slightly peeved as I happily paid my licence fee for nearly two decades. Could I assume that if I set up a proxy on my UK-hosted shell account that I would, ahem, solve this problem?

Ben: No, because that would be illegal. Surely you can only expect your licence fee to only cover the TV/Radio that was produced and broadcast whilst you were paying it? Why don’t you subscribe to Real SuperPass – where you can access BBC News in broadband?