CSL-II Got second place!
… okay theres not much more to say than the title, but we won second place in the pyweek game development competition! yay!
May 18, 2009
May 4, 2009
I made (another) game!
Team CSL made another game for pyweek :) im a bit exhausted so i’ll just mention the url of our project page and post a screeny :)
The Unfortunate Undoing - "Live. Go to work. Live. Have a family or don't. Live. Let the could have beens haunt you. Live. A pseudo-adventure rumination on life."
April 20, 2009
HD BBC Iplayer downloading now available for linux via adobe air
BBC news had an article today and of note was
Other new features include a new internet speed diagnostics page, the full release of the new BBC iPlayer Desktop, and a cross-platform manager that will allow Windows, Mac, and Linux users to download BBC programmes, including those in HD.
The bbc allowing linux users to DOWNLOAD things in HD, never, this could not be true? well apparently it is, you’ll need to goto the iplayer labs and enable the iplayer labs features if you havn’t, then you’ll be given a download button on all iplayer shows, which will install the iplayer desktop (and adobe air if you don’t have it) then continue to download your tv episode. well done the bbc.
It is not however, the fastest thing in the world by my count, see screenie - also Im not sure if its DRM’ed yet, but i would go ahead and assume it is. maybe you can download and keep for as long as you want, but it’ll be tied to the iplayer desktop application i bet.
how long to download?!
Update: it downloads to ~/VIdeos/BBC iPlayer/ and its stored as .mp4. - The files are mpeg4 or wmv but they both contain encrtyped data, they will expire after a certain date, its stupid and i shall be uninstalling. The downloader doesn’t work anyway, it cuts out and goes into ‘paused’ mode every few minutes, if i could download any of these files before they expired because of the DRM maybe THEN it would be useful, as of now, it is not.
