Totem BBC plugin

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+Totem BBC plugin
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+<p>A while back, the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</a> approached
+<a href="http://www.canonical.com/">Canonical</a> about providing seamless
+access to unencumbered BBC content for all
+<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> users (in the UK and elsewhere). We
+agreed to approach this by way of a plugin for our primary media player,
+<a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/">Totem</a>, and asked
+<a href="http://www.collabora.co.uk/">Collabora Multimedia</a> to do the plugin
+development work.</p>
+
+<p>The results are in what will shortly be released as Ubuntu 8.10, and are
+looking really rather good. At the moment the content available from the BBC at
+present is mostly audio, but support for video is in place and the feed is
+expected to be fleshed out here over time. We have a genre classification
+scheme in place, and will see how that scales as the amount of available
+content grows. The code has been
+<a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555823">submitted
+upstream</a>, although there are still a few issues to work out there.</p>
+
+<p>This is not the same thing as iPlayer; all the content available here is
+DRM-free. Some of it is geographically restricted to the UK, and these
+restrictions are handled on the server side to make sure that the client is
+free of encumbrances.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/">Christian Schaller</a> from
+Collabora <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/10/08/868/">posted</a>
+about this a little while ago. Since then, the UI has been improved somewhat
+and some I/O issues have been fixed to the point where we felt comfortable
+enabling the BBC plugin (as well as the YouTube plugin) by default in Ubuntu
+8.10. Here's a
+<a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/totem-bbc-2.png">screenshot</a> of
+the current interface.</p>
+
+<p>This is exciting stuff with a lot of potential. To try it out, run
+Applications -&gt; Sound &amp; Video -&gt; Movie Player and select the "BBC"
+entry from the drop-down box labelled "Playlist". If you find bugs, please
+<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+filebug">report</a>
+them!</p>