[access-uk] Re: Downloading with the BBC iPlayer

  • From: "John Wilson" <j.wilson07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:00:51 -0000

Hello again Alasdir,
I've just tried your fix/mini program for getting to the essentials of the BBC Iplayer andit works a treat. It will be a valuable asset, even in its current basic incarnation, to your WebbIE suite. thanks for the effort and time involved 

John.
P.S.: I would have let you know earlier but I've just been enjoying Monday's Mastermind, which I missed at the time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alasdair King" <alasdairking@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Downloading with the BBC iPlayer



OK, I've hacked a simple Accessible iPlayer:
http://download.webbie.org.uk/test/BBCIPlayerOnline.exe

No install, just download and/or run.
Opens with a text input box. Type the programme name, e.g. "Ashes to 
Ashes" and hit return.
You are then placed in a list of the results. Select the one you want 
with up and down and hit return.
It'll start playing the programme after several seconds. You can tab around the Flash player now if you want with your screenreader: there 
is a pause and volume control, don't know if they work.
Limitations: search results aren't sorted alphabetically, if no results are found you don't get informed, you can't pause or stop the programme, and you have to quit and restart the programme if you want 
to search again after having started a programme.
Needs a catalogue list, really, but that means parsing the BBC webpages. I've pretty much done this before but they've changed the 
site so I have to recode.

Cheers,
Alasdair

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Iain Lackie
<ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's a button in the Flash movie that says G.

 Iain

----- Original Message -----
 From: "John Wilson" <j.wilson07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:05 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Downloading with the BBC iPlayer 


 Hello Gordon,
That's interesting. Where exactly is this button, because my screenreader (JAWS 7.1) hasn't found it for me. I've got all of the Flash, Media Player 10, etc, and only wish to stream 
 and not download these very large files.

 I can find nowhere to get any program streaming started,
although sighted friends tell me that there is some form of 
 graphic you have to locate.

 John.

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Gordon Atkinson" <g.atkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: [access-auk] Re: Downloading with the BBC player
>I think I am right in saying that, if you want to download >programs on to your computer, you will have to install the 
 >player download manager software.
 >
> However, if you just want to listen to the program online, > you don't need the software. There is a button you can > just click on and it should start playing. This is what I 
 > find anyway.
 >
 > Gordon Atkinson
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Darran Ross" <darran.ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:36 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Downloading with the BBC iPlayer 
 >
 >
 >> Yeah, I've got all the necessary bits and pieces, but
 >> each time I click on
>> the download link for my programme, I'm taken to the page 
 >> to download the
>> iPlayer Download Manager software! This happens each and 
 >> every time. I just
 >> keep going around in the same loop. I've uninstalled,
 >> reinstalled and its
 >> getting me nowhere.
 >>
 >> Reckon I'm just going to give this iPlayer a miss!
 >>
 >> Darran
 >> ----- Original Message -----
 >> From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:41 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Downloading with the BBC iPlayer 
 >>
 >>
 >> | As long as you've got the latest version of the
 >> Flashplayer installed you
 >> | should be fine to download and play or stream
 >> programmes. You need at
 >> | Windows Mediaplayer 10 too I think.
 >> |
 >> | -----Original Message-----
 >> | From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
 >> Of
 >> | Sleepysaurus
 >> | Sent: 03 March 2008 17:38
 >> | To: Access-UK
>> | Subject: [access-uk] Downloading with the BBC iPlayer 
 >> |
 >> | Hi List.
 >> |
 >> | Has anyone successfully made a download with this
 >> thing?
 >> |
>> | I've got the software downloading and installed, but 
 >> I'm getting nowhere
 >> in
>> | a hurry as I try to download or stream the particular 
 >> programme I'm
 >> | interested in.
 >> |
 >> | Any helpful advice on using this setup would be
 >> appreciated.
 >> |
 >> | Thanks.
 >> |
 >> | Darran
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