BBC Video News live streaming URL (FULLSCREEN)

[hillskill]

Hi All,

 

Can anyone help with the following:

 

My headteacher wants our Samsung infomation screens to show the bbc web streaming live news at lunch time.

 

While I can easily insert a web element into the screens I need to find the URL that automatically goes to the pop out player or rather full screen. At the momment this URL:

 

BBC NEWS | Video and Audio | News Channel Live | BBC News Channel

 

Works fine but has the all the other bbc website stuff around it and I need it full screen without having to select it?

 

Any ideas what the URL for it might be?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[AyatollahPies]

Hi All,

 

Can anyone help with the following:

 

My headteacher wants our Samsung infomation screens to show the bbc web streaming live news at lunch time.

 

While I can easily insert a web element into the screens I need to find the URL that automatically goes to the pop out player or rather full screen. At the momment this URL:

 

BBC NEWS | Video and Audio | News Channel Live | BBC News Channel

 

Works fine but has the all the other bbc website stuff around it and I need it full screen without having to select it?

 

Any ideas what the URL for it might be?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Streaming media - just what large Plasma screens were made for.

[Guest richard_s]

Don't forget that you will need a TV license for the streaming of live programs.

[hillskill]

yeah we have a license so that should be fine.

[hillskill]

Thanks this is probally what I need!

 

i'll give it a try!

[shane_blues]

Dose any body have a idea for the following I want to use the BBC news channel as a screen saver , at present I have a screen that displays shared calendars, I would like the screen saver to kick in after one min and the screen saver to be the BBC news channel , so when a user comes up to the computer they wiggle the mouse and thay see the calendars ,thay walk away and teh news channel kicks back in,

Shane.

[Little-Miss]

Is that even possible?!

[AngryTechnician]

The quickest way I could think of doing this would be a custom screen saver that loaded a web page with iPlayer embedded, in much the same way as the OP here wanted. Not sure if a tool to create such a thing exists though.

 

In short, not impossible, but I suspect not straightforward. If you do crack it let us know!

[shane_blues]

Yes its the tool to set up the screen saver as a web page is the bit i need, dose any body know of a tool or hack I can use,

Shane.

[mb2k01]

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but the above example doesn't appear to function the same anymore.

When run it gives a holding message saying "Click here to view BBC News Channel at BBC Online".

 

Does anyone have a solution to have it autoplay and stay within the same webpage?

[mb2k01]

Found an alternative way of doing it via this thread http://www.edugeek.net/forums/av-multimedia-related/58198-embed-bbc-worldcup-2.html

[Lyptherion]

Hiya your script doesnt work i have this one its not pretty but it works please feel free to edit as you see fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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if(imgDiv.innerHTML.indexOf("src") == -1){

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imgDiv.style.position = 'absolute';

imgDiv.innerHTML = "

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}

 

setTimeout('hideWatermark()', (duration-1) * 1000);

}

 

function hideWatermark(){

var imgDiv = document.getElementById("loadingImg");

imgDiv.style.display='none';

}

 

setInterval('showWatermark()', interval * 60 * 1000 );

 

var tab = "";

if(tab != ""){

setCookie('guideTabSet', tab);

}

 

var tabLinks = new Array();

var contentDivs = new Array();

 

function init(tabsID) {

tabLinks[tabsID] = new Array();

contentDivs[tabsID] = new Array();

 

// Grab the tab links and content divs from the page

var tabListItems = document.getElementById(tabsID).childNodes;

for ( var i = 0; i < tabListItems.length; i++) {

if (tabListItems.nodeName == "LI") {

var tabLink = getFirstChildWithTagName(tabListItems, 'A');

var id = getHash(tabLink.getAttribute('href'));

tabLinks[tabsID][id] = tabLink;

contentDivs[tabsID][id] = document.getElementById(id);

}

}

 

// Assign onclick events to the tab links, and

// highlight the first tab

var i = 0;

 

for ( var id in tabLinks[tabsID]) {

tabLinks[tabsID][id].onclick = showTab;

tabLinks[tabsID][id].onfocus = function() {

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if (i == 0)

tabLinks[tabsID][id].className = 'selected';

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}

 

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}

}

 

function showTab(obj) {

if(obj != null){

var selectedId = null;

try {

selectedId = (obj && typeof obj.href != "undefined") ? getHash(obj.href)

: getHash(this.getAttribute('href'));

if (selectedId == null) {

selectedId = getHash(this.getAttribute('href'));

}

} catch (error) {

selectedId = obj;

}

 

// Find the set of tabs that this tab is in

outer: for ( var tabsID in tabLinks) {

for ( var id in tabLinks[tabsID]) {

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}

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// Also show the selected content div, and hide all others.

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function getFirstChildWithTagName(element, tagName) {

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}

 

function getHash(url) {

var hashPos = url.lastIndexOf('#');

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}

function setCookie(c_name,value,exdays){

var exdate=new Date();

exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);

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document.cookie=c_name + "=" + c_value;

}

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function showPOPUP(){

$("#dialog-form").show();

setCookie("popupShown", true, 1);

}

 

$(document).ready(function() {

 

$('#hidePopUp').click(function(event){

event.preventDefault();

$("#dialog-form").hide();

});

var channel_name = "BBC News 24";

$("#signUp\\:filtr").val(channel_name);

//alert("chanel name"+channel_name);

 

var loggedIn = "false";

var checkSignup=getCookie("signedup");

//alert(checkSignup);

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{

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setTimeout('showPOPUP()',1800000); //1800000 30mins

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else if(loggedIn=='false')

setTimeout('showPOPUP()', 30000 );

//alert(loggedIn);

 

 

$('#bannerDiv').click(function() {

$(this).target = "_blank";

var url= document.getElementById("wetv:bannerURL");

//alert(url.value);

window.open(url.value);

return false;

});

 

$(document.body).fadeIn(1000);

 

// ad script for 300x250

( function() {

if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; };

var unit = {"calltype":"async[2]","publisher":"wherevertv","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"};

var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length;

window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit);

addDiv = document.getElementById('chitikaAdBlock')

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addDiv.innerHTML = ('

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}());

 

 

});

 

[dubsdj]

none of the above seems to work. BBC news 24 stream url's have stopped working too. I do this now:

Create a new shortcut and give the path: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -k "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4hmqVPe0E&autoplay=1"

 

This full screens Sky News and seems to work quite well.