Thread: gPodder 2.0 for Fremantle
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2011-11-04 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by pelago View Post
I notice that, while doing "Check for new episodes", youtube subscriptions take a lot longer (about 10-11 seconds each) than other RSS subscriptions (less than a second each), on a fast Wi-Fi network. Is that just inherent to youtube? I mean, is the delay at their end, or is there anything that can be done in the gpodder code to speed this up?
YouTube feeds are the same as normal RSS feeds, so we don't do any different processing there - could be a YouTube problem. However, when starting a download (but not during feed update time), gPodder gets the web page of the video first in order to determine (via regex-based scraping) the download URL of the video file (the RSS feeds of YouTube only contain links to the YouTube website, not the video files).