Comments on: Totem BBC plugin

By: BBC udostępnia swe audycje dla użytkowników Linuksa. :: Czytelnia

BBC udostępnia swe audycje dla użytkowników Linuksa. :: Czytelnia — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:41:32 +0000

[...] rozwijany przez partnera BBC, firmę MetaBroadcast. Canonical we współpracy z firmą Collabra opracował wtyczkę do odtwarzacza multimedialnego Totem i ulepszył platformę multimedialną [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:55:34 +0000

Works brilliantly here, it’s a great start for sure!

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:20:35 +0000

I hope that in a next release the list will be filtered based on IP-address of the client.
Now I see a lot of Podcasts for which I only get a message that it cannot be viewed from outside the UK. Or you could place a little icon indicating “Available in the UK only” in the user interface when showing the BBC playlist.

For the rest I like the idea and hope that more broadcast organisations are willing to create such an interface with a media player like Totem.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:30:49 +0000

@Paul M: The EPG functionality of this needs to be ported to the Nokia tablet, but GStreamer wise the 810 should be fine.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:48:26 +0000

will these patches for gstreamer etc be applicable to the nokia tablet which I believe also uses it?

By: Research on BBC content for GNU/Linux | News on Internet

Research on BBC content for GNU/Linux | News on Internet — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:07:06 +0000

[...] then worked with Canonical and their software partners Collabra to deliver this feed to the Totem media player, and Gstreamer multimedia platform, to display [...]

By: uraeus

uraeus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:27:01 +0000

@Ben: we do not have any porting plans, but it is all open source so anyone can port the functionality over if they want to.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:44:08 +0000

Will this be comeing to KDE media players anytime soon?

By: ssam

ssam — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:59:16 +0000

thanks. good stuff. looking forward to seeing more content on there.

i wonder if video/audio sources could be done in a generic way so that they could be plugged into totem/rhythmbox/elisa/miro etc. currently it seems that everyone implements a youtube pluggin from scratch.

@matthew

if you look at the tooltip for those videos, it says “please note video attached to this story is for test purposes only…”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:15:53 +0000

Hi from New Zealand,
Great plugin. I love the BBC! Couple of points:

1) A search filter would a nice touch, as there is a lot of content listed already.
2) Perhaps an icon indicating the media type (Audio|Video) Or separate the content in two main categories of Audio and Video…
3) Maybe links to the shows websites, perhaps in a popup menu if you right click on a program? i.e. “Read more” or “Learn more” or “Visit webpage”

Some bugs (i am using Intrepid):
1) I am getting the same video file playing under the BBC News section, regardless of the title i select. i.e. i select “Amateur film of plane crash…” and i get a video playing of the eurotunnel closed (or something) with trucks parking… (its actually humorously appropriate), i get the same video played if i select “Central banks cut interest rates…”

2) The Totem root window title doesn’t update after selecting new content. So first thing i tried was listening to Russel Brand’s radio show. Well the window title remained “Brand: 04 October 08″ regardless of the subsequent content that i viewed.

Anywho, very impressed and so happy to see a wonderful partnership between Open Source and one of the worlds greatest public broadcasters. I only hope NZ state broadcasters were as enlightened!