[addon] BTV Podcatcher

[eMpTy3000]

This program is AWESOME! THANK YOU!

[glnn]

Just installed it with btv v4.8 and everything works great.

The new gui looks pro, good job.

[bubblehead]

I been using BTV Podcatcher for some time, just update to BTV 4.8 and the new update to BTV Podcatcher look great, nice new features and easier to use, thanks for a great addition to my viewing pleasure. A very professional addon.

[cmcquistion]

I've been getting a lot of "Cannot download file" errors with the new BTV Podcatcher and BTV 4.8. Clicking OK only results in another popup with the same error. My only recourse is to shut down BTV Podcatcher and relaunch it. This has been happening every few days.

[mpp_mpp]

Do you know what feed this was occuring on so I can take a look at it

[BigBill]

Very Cool program!

I did a search on "pool" in this thread and didn't find it so I will ask this question. When I setup a new feed I default to "pool", (where my shows go by default) but it won't let me save that feed unless I change the Save Files to a drive and directory. Should "pool" work?

Again, very cool!
-Bill

[cmcquistion]

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

Do you know what feed this was occuring on so I can take a look at it

I don't think it tells me what the problem feed is. Is there a way to find this out?

[BigBill]

Another question, is there a way to download and play youtube stuff in BTV?

[mpp_mpp]

Originally Posted by BigBill

Another question, is there a way to download and play youtube stuff in BTV?

No this will not download youtube stuff -
you might look for a podcast that puts together the top youtube and other internet video together something like the digg reel
http://revision3.com/diggreel/

Originally Posted by BigBill

Very Cool program!

I did a search on "pool" in this thread and didn't find it so I will ask this question. When I setup a new feed I default to "pool", (where my shows go by default) but it won't let me save that feed unless I change the Save Files to a drive and directory. Should "pool" work?

Again, very cool!
-Bill

No pool will not work - please do not select this a save location, I will remove this option in the next release of the program

Originally Posted by cmcquistion

I don't think it tells me what the problem feed is. Is there a way to find this out?

First I am going to say this I am pretty sure the message you are getting is because the feed from the internet did not include an enclosure (the download url) or the feed on the internet is not properly formatted

The name of the feed may be in the bottom left corner next to the progress bar
it will say "Updating <Name of feed>"

if that does not work here is a work around to get the program started
Edit the BTVPodCatcherConfig2.xml
change your start time and end time values to this
<startTime>00:00:59</startTime><endTime>00:01:00</endTime>
this will then cause when you open up the program (given that it is not 12:00:59 am)
for to skip the updating feeds
then you can open up the feed viewer and go through each feed and click on the refresh current feed this will only update the feed you are on.
this will help you figure out which feed the error is occurring on.

a thing that may temporary work once you know which feed is causing the issue is go into feed setup edit that feed and then press save (you do not need to change any value) this will cause the program to update that feedinfo file with all the current detail from the internet about the feed and then any of the old items in the feed will not try to download. - This may not fix anything.


also I looked through all of the code and the only two pop up message box that can occur are "No File to Download", or "Error with filename or download URL". these two errors both deals with errors I mentioned earlier.

[BigBill]

I went through the help and had a couple of questions.

It appears that after I setup the feeds, I must go into the viewer to individually download each podcast I want. There is no way to select all of the podcasts that I can find to download them with one or two clicks.

Also, is there a way to schedule them to automatically download all. I saw an entry in the feed that made me think it already did this, but I waited overnight and only the specific podcasts I clicked download on have been downloaded.

VERY COOL PROGRAM! They should integrate this into BTV!!

-Bill

[mpp_mpp]

Originally Posted by BigBill

I went through the help and had a couple of questions.

It appears that after I setup the feeds, I must go into the viewer to individually download each podcast I want. There is no way to select all of the podcasts that I can find to download them with one or two clicks.

Also, is there a way to schedule them to automatically download all. I saw an entry in the feed that made me think it already did this, but I waited overnight and only the specific podcasts I clicked download on have been downloaded.

VERY COOL PROGRAM! They should integrate this into BTV!!

-Bill

No way right now to download multiple past podcasts items in one or two clicks

It will download new episodes when they are published - if you have the setting for this on. The setting is download new episodes on. And the options are GUID, filename or date. There are 2 ways to turn this off one is set the download on option to do not download or you can set the max number to download to none

Most podcast will work on the GUID option.

You probaby did not see any new episodes download because no episodes were put out between the time you setup you feeds and now.

To test this subscribe to a daily podcast like tekzilla daily at revision3.com ( I can't paste the URL since I'm on my phone)
and tommorow you will get a new episode when it is published

[eMpTy3000]

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

No this will not download youtube stuff -
you might look for a podcast that puts together the top youtube and other internet video together something like the digg reel
http://revision3.com/diggreel/

Thanks for the link! I just realized that BTV does not show any .mov files. I was trying to subscribe to the HD format of the Digg reel. It looks like it is in the h264 format, which BTV plays. If I just change the extension to m4v would it play in BTV? If so could we have an option to change the extension on h264 .mov files so they will show up in BTV?

Thanks!

[mpp_mpp]

Originally Posted by eMpTy3000

Thanks for the link! I just realized that BTV does not show any .mov files. I was trying to subscribe to the HD format of the Digg reel. It looks like it is in the h264 format, which BTV plays. If I just change the extension to m4v would it play in BTV? If so could we have an option to change the extension on h264 .mov files so they will show up in BTV?

Thanks!

first off you can not just change the extension of Revision3 HD feed files to m4v and get it to play (when you do so you get an error message "invalid sample description" if you try to play it in quicktime and the file will not play in BTV)


When I was developing the current version of BTV Podcatacher I thought long and hard about adding this function.

I do have some automatic file extensions changes occurring (divx to avi and xvid to avi)

Not all mov files can change the extension to m4v or mp4 (both acceptable h264 extesnion) will play. in fact most mov I found do not work. This includes the HD feeds for revision3 they say they are h.264 but the ones I have tried do not work.

Since I could not find a feed that would need this functionality I left it out.

I would recommend subscribing to the large xvid or large quicktime feeds (which does have the m4v extension)

[eMpTy3000]

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

first off you can not just change the extension of Revision3 HD feed files to m4v and get it to play (when you do so you get an error message "invalid sample description" if you try to play it in quicktime and the file will not play in BTV)

That is why I was asking. I didn't have a file to try and I was at work.

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

When I was developing the current version of BTV Podcatacher I thought long and hard about adding this function.

I do have some automatic file extensions changes occurring (divx to avi and xvid to avi)

Not all mov files can change the extension to m4v or mp4 (both acceptable h264 extesnion) will play. in fact most mov I found do not work. This includes the HD feeds for revision3 they say they are h.264 but the ones I have tried do not work.

Since I could not find a feed that would need this functionality I left it out.

I would recommend subscribing to the large xvid or large quicktime feeds (which does have the m4v extension)

Thanks for trying it when developing it! I subscribed to the large xvid and it looks great!


Thanks again for creating BTV Podcatcher!

[noodleNT]

Is this updated anymore? I can't get any Feeds to work. I even installed the latest Debuger version and this error shows up in the console:

@ Monday, April 21, 2008 1:14:46 AM
Feed Update Exception System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Configuration system failed to initialize ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section system.serviceModel. (C:\Program Files\BTV Podcatcher\BTVPodcatcher2.exe.Config line 8)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.Thr owIfErrors(Boolean ignoreLocal)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Throw IfParseErrors(ConfigurationSchemaErrors schemaErrors)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Throw IfInitErrors()
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.Ens ureInit(String configKey)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSecti on(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.PrivilegedConfigurationManage r.GetSection(String sectionName)
at System.Net.Configuration.WebRequestModulesSectionI nternal.GetSection()
at System.Net.WebRequest.get_PrefixList()
at System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Uri requestUri, Boolean useUriBase)
at System.Net.WebRequest.Create(String requestUriString)
at RSSLibrary3.RSSFeed.loadRssItems(Boolean downloadItems) in C:\Users\Michael Pyle\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication1\RSSLibrary3 \RSSFeed.cs:line 148



FYI: Michael Pyle isn't me.