Thread: [Maemo 4] Podcasting: gPodder for Maemo 4 (N800, N810)
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2009-06-18 , 09:52
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Originally Posted by onion_cfe View Post
This 60 second download timeout is killing my use of the program. I can watch it fail after sometimes 0%, 1%, another at 22%, then can watch microb on the tablet or Firefox on my laptop download it quite successfully, albeit slowly.

Is the timeout actually the issue though or is it the fact that the download is stopping, later causing the timeout? I'm dealing with an awful DSL ISP (I was warned about BT and didn't listen - huge idiot with 8 months left on the contract) and often these downloads will legitimately be moving at 30-40Kibps, but they will be moving. The downloads don't stop moving anywhere but gPodder.
When do the download stop? Always at the beginning, always at the end or always at some random spot in between? Can you also please tell me the feed URL for the podcast, so I can try to reproduce the bug here? The timeout means "no activity for 60 seconds", the speed is irrelevant (i.e. a download running at a constant 6kb/s with data coming in all the time will still not timeout).

This doesn't seem to be a widespread problem. D'you think I should try a clean flash? I did play around with that maemo-pc-connectvitiy package a few days ago and that didn't go too well so I suppose it's possible it's left something behind.
No, no reflash should be required. Looks like a bug in the download code to me. Please send me the feed URL, so I can try to reproduce the bug here and then hopefully fix it.

Can I obtain a .deb of the previous version somewhere if I can't get past this?
You can obtain old .debs from the repository, although it's not recommended, and we won't be able to provide support for the old versions due to limited resources Here's the URL:

http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...ree/g/gpodder/

Thanks for yours and others continued work on this. Also liked the look of the Maemo 5 build, although I plan to milk my N800 for some time yet so please don't move on too quickly
The N8x0 devices will be supported as long as I have a device to test the packages on. Just because I'm working on the UI for Maemo 5 that doesn't mean that the Maemo 4 version will be abandoned
 

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