Application Ideas/Requests

**flammenwurfer** · July 21st, 2009, 03:33 PM

I also vote for VH1 shows. I hate all the reality bullcrap, but the wife "has to have it".

**phundisk** · July 21st, 2009, 04:33 PM

Here are some more that I would like

NasaTV - Both live streaming of whatever Nasa Broadcasts, and a section of past videos. (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...segment=149773) I think this would be cool. Looks "easy" to make as well!

WebMD - Has useful health tips. Don't know how easy/hard it would be to make though.

CNN/FOXNEWS - Basically any kind of LIVE streaming news service would be nice. Fox news I believe broadcasts live online.

**antoan** · July 21st, 2009, 09:48 PM

We already have access to TED talks, it would be awesome to see other lectures/content from:

The ResearchChannel - http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/
SeedMagazine - http://seedmagazine.com/
ForaTV - http://fora.tv/
Wired

Would like to thak you guys for making the OpenCourseware content accesible and boxee in general, its made my life much easier with regards to learning and massively improved my accesibility to all my local video/audio lectures.

P.S. the research channel is an awesome resource for scientists/engineers and gevelopers and has over 3,500 titles.

**agentlame** · July 21st, 2009, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by flammenwurfer

I also vote for VH1 shows. I hate all the reality bullcrap, but the wife "has to have it".

come on, you know you get into it a bit.

i have dated many'a women that love those shows, and i always get dragged into the characters and the [fake] drama.

by the end i always end-up rooting for/against someone....

oh, how i hate you, megan.

**Sniperking** · July 24th, 2009, 10:16 AM

Well BBC Live is pretty much done now, so I'm on the look out for something to start. Looking at WIRED it doesn't seem too difficult, so i think i will make an app for that. If i start it I'll be sure to let you all know.

**DGMurdockIII** · July 28th, 2009, 08:34 PM

how about one for http://tvcatchup.com/

**Sniperking** · July 29th, 2009, 09:12 AM

The idea of a TVCatchUp boxee application was put forward to the owners, but fell through for several reasons. I cant see they would support it but who knows.

**DGMurdockIII** · July 29th, 2009, 03:06 PM

here are some of my ideas

scfi channel (now SYFY) full episodes - http://www.syfy.com/rewind/

scfi channel (now SYFY) videos mostly clips - http://video.syfy.com/

BBC America video - http://www.bbcamerica.com/video/

Fancast (Full length TV Shows) - http://www.fancast.com/full_episodes

Fancast (Full length Movies) - http://www.fancast.com/movies

TV.com HD videos - http://www.tv.com/hd/

TV.com videos - http://www.tv.com/video/

identi.ca support like the twitter support is - identi.ca and source code can be found here http://laconi.ca/trac/

**xmcnuggetx** · August 1st, 2009, 09:34 AM

the fancast plugin shouldnt be that hard... they have an rss with all the shows already:
http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/video-index.xml

that links to the individual shows rss:
example: http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/41417.xml

the actual xml for each episode contains plenty of extra goodies like episode number, season, thumbnail, ect

Code:

    <item>
      <title>The Hills Ep 510: Something Old, Something New</title>
      <media:title>The Hills Ep 510: Something Old, Something New</media:title>
      <cim:tvSeriesId>41417</cim:tvSeriesId>
      <cim:season>5</cim:season>

      <cim:episodeNum>10</cim:episodeNum>
      <cim:episodeId>701909</cim:episodeId>
      <media:category scheme="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/category_schema">television/The Hills/The Hills Ep 510: Something Old, Something New</media:category>
      <link>http://www.fancast.com/tv/The-Hills/41417/1138331433/The-Hills-Ep-510%3A-Something-Old%2C-Something-New/videos</link>
      <description>Heidi and Spencer head down the aisle and two unexpected guests manage to attend the ceremony.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:05:27 GMT</pubDate>

      <cim:videoId>1138331433</cim:videoId>
      <cim:runningTime>41:54</cim:runningTime>
      <cim:origAirDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400</cim:origAirDate>
      <cim:expirationDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:00:00 -0400</cim:expirationDate>
      <cim:userRating>0.0</cim:userRating>
      <media:player url="http://www.fancast.com/tv/The-Hills/41417/1138331433/The-Hills-Ep-510%3A-Something-Old%2C-Something-New/videos"/>

      <media:description>Heidi and Spencer head down the aisle and two unexpected guests manage to attend the ceremony.</media:description>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://media4.comcast.net/thumbnails/cMTV/62/612/seg5-281x211_121x87.jpg" width="121" height="87"/>
      <media:rating scheme="urn:simple">nonadult</media:rating>
    </item>

also the show xml contains all shows vs hulus that I think is limited to about 20 episodes.

only problem I see so far is some shows don't appear to be in the video-index.xml... might be worth just emailing them and saying your using google reader or something and your favorite show isn't in the xml

**darcilicious** · August 1st, 2009, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by Sniperking

Well BBC Live is pretty much done now

Yay and thanks!

so I'm on the look out for something to start. Looking at WIRED it doesn't seem too difficult, so i think i will make an app for that. If i start it I'll be sure to let you all know.

Personally I would love a National Geographic app but I don't suspect that's an easy one...