[Herts] Great BBC open source radio broadcast and update.

[Malcolm Smith]

Back by popular demand...

Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kp806

Firefox, Linux, IBM, et al. A good primer for non-technical
friends and family. And it's from the Beeb so it must be true!

This was first broadcast in June 2009, but you can now catch it
again for another week on iPlayer.


Hope to see you at next week's meeting - is it on Thursday again?


Cheers
-- 
Malcolm



On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:18:56PM +0100, Malcolm Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:23:00PM +0100, jayybee wrote:
> > To all in the list, have a listen to this great broadcast. It really is
> > worth a listen for 30 mins....... :
> > 
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
> 
>   "To play Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business
>    please first install Flash."
> 
> Ugh! How wrong is that?
> 
> Never fear, Linux is here...
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos
> http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
> 
> 
> malc at mirage:~$ get_flash_videos http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
> Downloading http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
> Using method 'bbc' for http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
> get_flash_videos does not support iplayer, but get_iplayer does..
> Attempting to run 'get_iplayer -g --pid b00kp806'
> get_iplayer v1.32, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis
>   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
>   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
>   conditions; use --conditions for details.
> 
> INFO Trying to download pid using type tv
> INFO: pid not found in tv cache
> INFO: iphone modes will be tried
> INFO: Trying iphone mode to download tv:  - 
> INFO: Checking existence of default version
> INFO: File name prefix = Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_episode_b00kp806_default
> WARNING: Bad file download, deleting cookie
> WARNING: Retrying download for ' -  (b00kp806)'
> INFO: Checking existence of default version
> INFO: File name prefix = Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_episode_b00kp806_default
> WARNING: Bad file download, deleting cookie
> WARNING: Retrying download for ' -  (b00kp806)'
> INFO: Checking existence of default version
> INFO: File name prefix = Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_episode_b00kp806_default
> WARNING: Bad file download, deleting cookie
> ERROR: Failed to download ' -  (b00kp806)'
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ # search for the programme...
> malc at mirage:~$ get_iplayer --type radio "Anthill"
> [...snip...]
> Matches:
> 11102:  Inside the Virtual Anthill - Open Source Means Business, BBC Radio 4, Factual,Science & Nature,Science & Technology,Radio
> 
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ # fetch the file number 11102
> malc at mirage:~$ get_iplayer --get 11102
> get_iplayer v1.32, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis
>   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
>   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
>   conditions; use --conditions for details.
> 
> Matches:
> 11102:  Inside the Virtual Anthill - Open Source Means Business, BBC Radio 4, Factual,Science & Nature,Science & Technology,Radio
> 
> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
> INFO: iphone,real modes will be tried
> INFO: Trying iphone mode to download radio: Inside the Virtual Anthill - Open Source Means Business
> INFO: File name prefix = Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_Open_Source_Means_Business_b00kp806_default  
> 19.45MB / 26.55MB   1150kbps   70%   0:00:30 remaining
> INFO: Downloaded 26.55MB in 00:03:09 at  1151kbps to ./Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_Open_Source_Means_Business_b00kp806_default.mp3
> INFO: id3 tagging MP3 file
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ 
> malc at mirage:~$ # listen to it
> malc at mirage:~$ vlc Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_-_Open_Source_Means_Business_b00kp806_default.mp3
> 
> 
> There, fixed that for you :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kp806
> 
> Good programme! Nice to hear this stuff reaching prime time audiences.
> Heck I may even try this open sauce stuff myself real soon now...
> 
> 
> See you tomorrow night
> -- 
> Malcolm
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