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Danramos,

The podcasts that I am downloading are video podcasts. Tekzilla is xvid i believe. I installed ogg support from the repository and now media player says that its playing but no video or sound is coming through. The play button is greyed out in fact. Before I installed ogg i got a message that the file is an icompatible format.

Are there any other drivers that i should try to install? Ogg did nothing for me.

thanks

I think you might be confusing a few things (labels for different video and audio formats). "ogg vorbis" is an audio format and codec ("ogg theora" is video, though) but "xvid" is a video codec and has nothing to do with ogg at all.

You said that Tekzilla is video, for example. Can you give me exactly what RSS feeds you're using in gpodder so that I can try them out as well and see what the problem might be?

Sure can...

Here is is: http://revision3.com/tekzilla/feed/xvid-small/

Again, for me to play that in gpodder I have to change over to mplayer in the settings. Once done, it plays very smoothly.

Thanks

Ah.. those are .avi container files encoded with xvid video codec and mpeg audio (mp3?) codec. I expected that should work in the built-in media player but it doesn't.

But here's the thing! It's video.. and you only need to change the default VIDEO player in gPodder.

Here's how! Press the MENU key (or tap the drop-down menu on the top-left corner of the gPodder window). Go to "Podcasts", then choose "Preferences". Tap "Advanced..." and in the "Search for:' bar, type "player". Scroll down and be sure to put a check mark next to "maemo_allow_custom_player" then scroll down some more to the very bottom and look for the entry labeled "videoplayer". Tap on the right side, where you can enter in the path to the video player, and put in "/usr/bin/mplayer" (be sure to hit the ENTER key to enter it in when you're done... hitting CLOSE right away won't enter it in).

Once you've done that, hit the CLOSE button and give it another go. You'll notice that the video will play just fine from gPodder and your audio (mp3, ogg, etc.) will continue to play with the system default player.

If you ever decide you want to use another player for audio, you can change the value in the advanced preferences for the "player" (not "videoplayer") to whatever you prefer to use (I, for example, use /usr/bin/panucci now) and your VIDEO podcasts will still use /usr/bin/mplayer.

Let me know if this worked for you or if you're running into something else.

Thanks Danramos,

That's pretty much I've been doing already except I changed the player option to mplayer as well but i guess i didnt need to. Also, you can just type in mplayer for the video player option rather than the whole path.

A radial button to toggle between the two different players would be useful but I definitely don't want to slow down the program any more than it already is.

Thanks for your help man.

Would be nice if you could file this at http://bugs.gpodder.org/ so we don't forget to add this at some point in the future

The Desktop version has a separate combo box for video and audio players, and it even reads the correct applications from the application list. I have not included something like that on Maemo yet, but I might do so in the future (at least switch between "Nokia Media Player for everything" and "Panucci for audio, MPlayer for video").

Please, report a bug, so we don't forget about this here And thanks for your feedback!

Hello.

I've been using gPodder 0.11.2.maemo6 for awhile now on old OS2008 N800. Love it.

I finally got around to upgrading to Diablo and the latest gPodder.

Unfortunately, during the database transition on the first boot my n800 crashed hard (self reset) and now I can't see most of my already downloaded files - the files are in the folders but they do not appear in gPodder.

Is there a way to rebuild the database using the already downloaded files? Or, can I go through the new database rebuild process again (is the old database still there)?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

-TR6C

You can force a new database rebuild (given the old files are still there) by removing the "database.sqlite" file in both /home/user/.config/gpodder and in /media/mmc2/gpodder.

After that, start gPodder and it should do the database migration again.

Of course, all changes since the last migration are lost (except for the subscriptions, which should be saved in the .opml file and will have the latest status, because the .opml file is updated even with the new database).

Sorry for having caused some inconveniences, but using the database instead of the old, file-based methods increases performance, code clarity and reliability.

To backup your subscriptions in case of a future error, you can use my.gpodder.org that is integrated into gPodder 0.14.0.

thp, Is there anyway you could merge just the "import videocenter feed list" code with the version of the code in extras and promote the result to extras? I don't want to use extras-devel, and it sounds like the current version in extras-devel is going to get tied up with testing more major changes (gestures etc). Meanwhile, the "import videocenter feed" functionality should be non-controversial.

Thank you very much for responding!

I'm only seeing "database.sqlite" in /home/user/.config/gpodder ??? Deleting only this one forces rebuild at start, but it looks no different when it is done.

What do the old files look like? Where are/were they? Are they normally destroyed as part of the upgrade?

Is there a way to rebuild the database using the already downloaded files? Many of the podacsts are no longer available…

Thanks.