Thread: [Maemo 4] Podcasting: gPodder for Maemo 4 (N800, N810)
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2008-09-25 , 07:22
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Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar View Post
Thanks a lot for building a wonderful application for N810. I really liked it except for the feature that it doesnt have its own internal player. I cant listen to all the podcasts in one go. I would have to click on individual podcast every time. It is a bit time consuming and demands attention when you want to do other thing simultaneously. With an internal player and capability to podcast videos, this would be a great application to pay for (even though it is worth donating even now).
Internal Player: A few days ago, we've created an open source project around a small Python hack I wrote weeks ago to resume long live concerts playback position when re-starting the app. This project ("Panucci" - a Futurama reference) is now being developed by three people at the moment. We will have a release soon, probably. It can integrate well with gPodder already, and we might plan to integrate some of the playback features into gPodder (although we still want to give the users the ability to choose whatever player they like).

Panucci Website: http://panucci.garage.maemo.org/

As far as video podcasts go - gPodder already supports these (there are even example podcasts in the initial OPML file). I can play my video podcasts fine with either the Nokia Media Player or MPlayer installed.

Donating is also possible already http://maemo.gpodder.org/donate.html

Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar View Post
The application should launch when i click on a podcast link (just like how rss feed reader launches upon clicking on a rss link). This helps easy addition of podcasts instead of copying and pasting links every time one want to add the podcast.
I've talked with one of the Canola guys at the Summit, because they have already written a "feed handler" (in canola-tuning, I guess) which allows to direct RSS feed clicks in the browser to other apps. I have to talk to the author of Canola's feed handler to work on a solution that will allow other apps to plug into that feed handler, so clicks in browsers can be accepted. But so little time on my hands right now...

Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar View Post
In addition, I found the application very resource hungry, My N810 almost hangs when I click on download three in a series. Also, the application hangs when there are errors with feed links. I am not sure if this is the case with others as well.
Will get a bit better in 0.13.0, due to be released in a few days/weeks. There's still lots of potential optimizing for Internet Tablets (remember, gPodder is a Desktop App ported to Maemo), and we are working on it. Slowly

Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar View Post
The automatic podcast search option (that comes in the beginning of loading the application for the first time) should provide a search window and it should be able to fetch podcast links by searching a key word such as 'Hollywood' etc. Right now it only shows some podcast examples on linux etc stuff.
I'd be more than happy to do that, but currently, there is no free (as in beer) podcast directory service that has a public API that I can query to do things like a search that returns an OPML I can display for selection. If you know of such a service, I'd be happy to include it. But don't expect me to maintain a podcast directory all by myself Again.. time is the limit here.

Originally Posted by svrkprabhakar View Post
The status icon in system tray doesnt appear properly (it takes the shape of its adjacent icon and in this case the system tray time making it to look double) and clicking on it does show any action.
Can you please send me a screenshot of how it looks like? Or maybe you just need to restart gPodder for the tray icon to be displayed correctly? Which version of gPodder are you running? Have you updated to the latest OS2008 version (Diablo)? Because the tray icon works just fine on my N800 running Diablo (or else I would have deactivated that feature long ago).

Thanks for your feedback! As I already said above, most of these features are possible and some of then are even worked on, but all these things need time, and we're just about three or four people who are the main contributors to gPodder. Patches, written documentation and donations are gladly accepted for that reason
 

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