gpodder has now grown into a daily tool for me. After setting up the car mount and FM transmitter, I can enjoy podcasts every time when driving.
Which leads me into a question about updating:
I've been browsing through gpodder's preferences and advanced preferences screens, but I still haven't been able to find correct settings for unattended podcast downloads.
Then I've let N810 on all night and day with gpodder minimized. However, it hasn't downloaded any podcasts, and when clicking Update, I still have to confirm downloading a bunch of podcasts.
Is it possible to set up gpodder so that it checks and downloads new podcasts automatically without any user input? If so, how can I enable it?
(An option to check+download only when connected to a WLAN would be very welcome too)
Is it possible to set up gpodder so that it checks and downloads new podcasts automatically without any user input? If so, how can I enable it?
This currently doesn't work on Maemo, because it doesn't detect the "minimized" status correctly. I have to think of something to make that work on Maemo without being annoying to users. Maybe we can include a special option for the Maemo version to make gPodder automatically download new episodes regardless of the minimized status.
(An option to check+download only when connected to a WLAN would be very welcome too)
I've added a bug to gPodder's Bugzilla for this one: Support for Offline mode, this is currently targeted for the June '08 release of gPodder. After that, being disconnected should make gPodder not update or download anything.
I've added a bug to gPodder's Bugzilla for this one: Support for Offline mode, this is currently targeted for the June '08 release of gPodder. After that, being disconnected should make gPodder not update or download anything.
Actually, the reason I asked for this was that many people (I included) use N810 both via WLAN and GPRS/3G packet data. Sometimes it would be a good idea to avoid downloading podcasts over packet data because it saturates the connection and is potentially very costly without flat rate.
...then again, you can always switch off gpodder while on the move. But I like to keep it on because it has rather good interface for browsing and listening podcasts.
I just paged through the last 8 pages and didn't see anything on using Mplayer instead of the default media player, is there a simple way to do this within Gpodder ? I'm trying to DL and watch Xvid & Flv files. Thanks in advance.
...then again, you can always switch off gpodder while on the move. But I like to keep it on because it has rather good interface for browsing and listening podcasts.
I'm glad you like the interface. I've even thought about integrating some player code into the UI (that remembers the playback position when stopped, so you can listen to a two-hour podcast in several steps without having to seek in mediaplayer), but this might be too much functionality packed into this application, and people might not like this at all...
I just paged through the last 8 pages and didn't see anything on using Mplayer instead of the default media player, is there a simple way to do this within Gpodder ? I'm trying to DL and watch Xvid & Flv files. Thanks in advance.
You can set the maemo_allow_custom_player variable (in the advanced preferences) to True and then set the player (for audio) and videoplayer configuration variables to a command that will be invoked when you play an audio or video file.
Be aware that setting maemo_allow_custom_player to True disables the Nokia Mediaplayer integration - you have to specify the "player" command in addition to the "videoplayer" command to get audio playback working, too.
That said, setting "videoplayer" to "mplayer" should work, although the internet tablets might have a hard time playing back high-quality video content.. flv might work.
Since today, gPodder is now in Maemo Extras, so if you have been using gPodder from the special gPodder Repository, you can remove the gPodder repository from Application Manager, update the repositories and search for updates. Update will now be published directly in Maemo Extras.
This also means that new users can simply go into application manager and install gPodder from there without having to add the specific repository
I'm glad you like the interface. I've even thought about integrating some player code into the UI (that remembers the playback position when stopped, so you can listen to a two-hour podcast in several steps without having to seek in mediaplayer), but this might be too much functionality packed into this application, and people might not like this at all...
I'm glad you like the interface. I've even thought about integrating some player code into the UI (that remembers the playback position when stopped, so you can listen to a two-hour podcast in several steps without having to seek in mediaplayer), but this might be too much functionality packed into this application, and people might not like this at all...
The gpodder application is WAAAAY to slow already. Almost everything I do in it requires me to wait until it finishes before doing anything else on my tablet. I would focus on making it a faster application first.
