[addon] BTV Podcatcher

[SSDNAdmin]

Author: mpp_mpp

Short Description: Automatically download video podcast and integrates the title and description information into the BTV Folders
Long Description: Automatically download video podcast and integrates the title and description information into the BTV Folders This can be used to automatically download any format of podcast but it will only add information to file formation that Beyond TV supports For more detailed description please see the BTV Podcatcher Mannual.doc included in the zip file
Version Number: 1.1.40
Status: Released
Last Updated: 3/19/2007
Homepage:
Installation Instructions: Unzip files to a folder Run setup.exe this will install the program and add a shortcut to the start menu. For configure options after the program is installed see the BTV Podcatcher Mannual.doc included in the zip file
Release Notes:
License: Freeware
Requirements: .net 2.0, BTV4.0 or higher for intergration


Download BTVPodcatcher.zip

[glnn]

This is one of the best BTV add-on's there is, it's sweet having my podcasts show up in my Recorded TV folder.

Thanks.

[Cal]

has something changed with dl.tv.

The shows are continuing to downlaod and play fine but about half the time the descriptions are missing.

Is anyone else having this problem?

[mpp_mpp]

Nothing has changed with my plug-in or with dl.TV I have been trying to figure this out and am working on it. I issues the call to BTV server to add the show description but info but the server does not accept the update

[Cal]

Ah. Glad to see its not just me. Thanks for looking into it. I like this add on.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

I issues the call to BTV server to add the show description but info but the server does not accept the update

Anything strange with the "Editable" flag?

[dubbedout]

I just wanna say that this add-on is awsome! I used to have to manually download all my video podcasts and copy them over the network. This is an awesome timesaver! Great job!

[psionic]

I wish the download manager in this program was a little more robust. Every time I try to download something from revision3.com (Diggnation, Systm, The Broken, etc.) it stalls and times out.

[mpp_mpp]

Are you having the same problem downloading the podcasts if you where to download them through internet explorer

[psionic]

Originally Posted by mpp_mpp

Are you having the same problem downloading the podcasts if you where to download them through internet explorer

No.

I think part of the problem is that revision3.com really pushes the torrent links versus the conventional download links. Their servers are usually quite busy. Other vidcasts such as dl.tv downloads without problems.

I didn't mean to do a "drive-by complaint" ... It just seems as though Podcatcher doesn't try to resume downloads or even retry... if the link dies, Podcatcher gives up.

[Cal]

the only revision3 one I download is InDigital. Its always worked great with podcatcher.

dltv on the other hand has issues. It downloads fine but almost never has the description properly. I think its the extra html code in the item.description field.

I don't know much about how the feed should look. Nor do I know what podcatcher is looking for but I spent a bit of time looking at the yahoo pipes stuff and managed to reformat the dltv feed and it seems to be work fine with podcatcher now.

Of course I only did it on the weekend so It only has downloaded Tuesdays show since then. If it continues to work for the next couple weeks, I'll post more.

[mpp_mpp]

I have made a couple of changes to the program to fix these issue

Increased the time out time from 100000 to 1000000
When writing the description to btv it now removes html tags
Now it set the editiable tag to true and read only to false when writing the properities

I hope this fixes some of peoples issues

A newer version is in post 20 http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/show...7&postcount=20

[Cal]

Yesterdays download worked again via the pipe but I'll download and use your new version as well as put the feed back to the original instead of using the pipe I created and we shall see next week what happens.

Thanks for the updated program.

[Joe Labonte]

Hi,

This podcaster looks great but how can I get youtube videos to download to a format that BTV can view?

I would like to have the youtube most discussed and top downloads.

Thanks,

Joe

[mpp_mpp]

I'm sorry but you tube videos are not supported in the BTV so you will have to use an external program that will convert the videos from flash videos to a format btv will read