colin1951uk wrote:I'm wondering if it might be worth contacting the editor of the Radio Times who at the end of the day provide the data for the xmltv feed and discuss if 'another' might be given the opportunity to keep the xmltv web page up to date if Meta can no longer be bothered with it. Providing RT are still willing to keep up the data input I see no reason why something shouldn't be agreed. Anyway I've got a bit of time to ponder options over it.
I don't know what agreement Metabroadcast made/had/has with the BBC, if any. The original announcement of their taking over the XML TV feed is here:
http://www.radiotimes.com/blog/2011-12- ... tv-service - and I'm not sure that the data comes from the BBC, I believe that the data provider is the Press Association, with Metabroadcast as the data supplier.
Metabroadcast insist that Atlas driven applications carry these notices:
· Powered by Atlas, the media metadata router from MetaBroadcast.
http://metabroadcast.com· Entertainment data copyright: Press Association.
http://www.pressassociation.comI might speculate that the Press Association may be the ultimate arbiters of what is, and is not, allowed.
colin1951uk wrote:Just for my interest what's the difference between v3 and v4 of the Atlas feed...is v4 just an upgrade or does it have more options channel wise or whatever?
v3 works
- seriously, from the point of view of 'grabbers' I can't see that there is any practical difference. The code I use to handle the two is very similar, and the data I extract is identical. Currently, there is no v4 channel feed. The channel list comes from a v3 url for both v3 and v4. The original 'promise' was that v4 wouldn't need an API Key but (again I would speculate, at the insistence of the Press Association) this fell by the wayside.
I think that there may be other bells and whistles available that are aimed at a very different audience - i.e. for non-EPG type stuff - and aimed at Metabroadcast's commercial client base.
My only real regret is the need for the API Key which I think is a huge ask for people downloading a Firefox add-on.
Ben.
XUL is dead. Long live the Google Chrome Clones.