iplayer pre grayIf for whatever reason, you wished that the
Kindle could play videos, it turns out that short of waiting for
Amazon to come out with a new version of Kindle, it’s not
entirely impossible, thanks to a developer at the BBC, Mark
Longstaff-Tyrrell.  What he did was he combined the
broadcaster’s popular iPlayer video streaming service together
with some software, and through the use closed captioning, he
came up with what he calls, the iPlayer for Kindle.  What the
iPlayer does is it takes DVB digital television and the
accompanying subtitles, together with any frame that has
dialogue involved and puts them together. To make it slightly
more fluid, the software will then go through and take out some
extra frames to combine with the dialogue frames, to show things
like movement. It then takes the finished product and converts
it to an HTML file, which can then be converted into the PDF
format for “watching” on your Kindle device. If you think about
it, it’s sort of like reading an animated comic st