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By: Doga Armangil
RE: podcatcher problem with feed [ reply ]  
2007-07-03 09:58
Hi,
Short answer: try upgrading to the latest version (2.0.1).

Long answer: IIRC the version 1.3.7 does not handle HTTP redirections, so a feed like tagesschau is simply ignored. The latest version does not have this limitation.

Version 1.3.7 seems to be the only release that is available as a Gentoo package, and later versions will be probably also be packaged some time in the future (I hope someone involved in the Gentoo packaging process is reading this).

I hope this helps.

By: F W
podcatcher problem with feed [ reply ]  
2007-07-02 11:00
Hello,
i'm using podcatcher with Gentoo (media-sound/podcatcher-1.3.7) to download my podcasts.

The file podcasts.opml contains the podcasts i want.

Code:
<opml>

<head>
<title>podcasts</title>
</head>

<body>
<outline type="link" text="Tagesschau Video Podcast" url="http://www.tagesschau.de/export/video-podcast/tagesschau"/>
<outline type="link" text="English as a Second Language Podcast" url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/EnglishAsASecondLanguagePodcast"/>
</body>

</opml>


To start podcatcher i use this command:
Code:
podcatcher -d /media/disk/podcasts --size 0 --strategy back_catalog -vp /media/disk/podcasts/podcasts.opml

It reads the file podcatcher.opml and downloads all files i haven't yet in the folder /media/disk/podcasts.

Code:
$ podcatcher -d /media/disk/podcasts --size 0 --strategy back_catalog -vp /media/disk/podcasts/podcasts.opml
#EXTM3U
Fetching: /media/disk/podcasts/podcasts.opml
Fetching: http://www.tagesschau.de/export/video-podcast/tagesschau
Fetching: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EnglishAsASecondLanguagePodcast
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod281.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/EC91.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod280.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod279.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/EC90.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod278.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod277.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/EC89.mp3
Enclosure: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/eslpod/ESLPod276.mp3
[...]
Done.

For the "English as a Second Language" podcast this procedure works very well but podcatcher ignores the "Tagesschau" podcast.
What can I do to get the "Tagesschau" podcast downloaded with podcatcher?

deep_f