[gpodder-devel] new version downloads new episodes, but screen empty

  • From: thp at perli.net (Thomas Perl)
  • Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:42:28 +0200

Hello, Katy!

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 08:24 -0600, Katy G. B. wrote:
> [...] so i started getting podcast's cover image/album art and when i
> got to my subscription to an Australian Non-profit podcast (their feed
> url is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cpns-qut-nonprofitPodcasts )  i
> found several other of my podcasts that this would happen with.  than
> when gpodder tries to download any podcast's cover art gpodder would
> download an html, xml, or other document. [...]
> 
> [...] here's a work around until there's a perm fix.  you'll need to
> delete all of your podcasts' 'cover' files which aren't images, unless
> you know which podcast specifically is causing your problem. 

This workaround shouldn't be needed after a "svn up", as I've added the
necessary code and sanity checks to the current SVN version thanks to
Richard Voigt's patch and bug reporting. If gPodder chokes after the
"svn up", simply checkout the svn repository again and it should work.

Tell me if there still is a problem or if the problem is fixed now.

> my php script, which i'll post in the next couple of days(under its
> own thread of course), automatically checks all the 'cover' files and
> deletes the ones that aren't valid images-i'm gonna use the gd or
> ImageMagick php extensions to check each file.  most likely i'll use
> the gd library since its the one i'm most familiar with &it has the
> lowest overhead.  lol, and just to mention it, my php progie/script
> still relies on gPodder &php's cli/cgi.

There should be no need for the cover deleting workaround anymore, but
feel free to post the PHP script anyway for its original purpose :)

> [...] and though i love gPodder and _will_ abs help work on it in the
> future(if you want it that is) all my work with gPodder *wink* has
> only confirm my dislike of python.  i may just have ti write my own
> podcatcher in php-gtk2(joking, mostly), i'd actually love to help with
> gPodder - like in my free time i'm writing a play list manager for it.
> hopefully i'll be able to contribute that soon. 

If you want to contribute to gPodder, it would be really good if you
write your code in Python. php-gtk2 is not as widely supported as PyGTK,
and in my personal opinion, PHP isn't well suited for desktop
applications (after all, it was written for web applications in the
first place). Hell, I even switched from PHP (~5 years non-OO PHP
experience) to Python for my web page after one and a half year
programming in Python, because Python seems so much better ;)

But not let the language choice stop you from contributing to gPodder -
see it as a good reason to learn Python.

And if you still want to write in php-gtk2, that's no problem, but your
tool might just not be included in the default gPodder distribution.


Thanks,
Thomas

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