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General => Users => Topic started by: bulek on March 19, 2008, 12:53:04 PM

Title: Convenient way to download podcasts (video and audio) under LMCE or KUbuntu ?
Post by: bulek on March 19, 2008, 12:53:04 PM
Hi,

I'm subscribed to some interesting channels for video and audio podcasts. Currently I download them with iTunes to laptop and transfer them to LMCE Core... Since Core is running 24 hours a day, it would be much more convenient to schedule podcasts download at night.

Any convenient way to setup automatic download of subscribed podcast video and audio files under LMCE (Kubuntu) ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.
Title: Re: Convenient way to download podcasts (video and audio) under LMCE or KUbuntu
Post by: tschak909 on March 19, 2008, 12:56:31 PM
not from within the orbiter......yet.......

although, code to do this would be AWESOME.

-Thom

Title: Re: Convenient way to download podcasts (video and audio) under LMCE or KUbuntu
Post by: coley on March 19, 2008, 05:57:30 PM
Not so much under LMCE, but tversity www.tversity.com (http://www.tversity.com) works under wine so will run on your core. You can subscribe to your audio and video podcasts and have them downloaded to somewhere LMCE can see.

-Coley.

p.s should have checked this out further http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10067 (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10067) doesn't sound as if that's an option.
Title: Re: Convenient way to download podcasts (video and audio) under LMCE or KUbuntu
Post by: kir on March 20, 2008, 12:52:18 PM
There is feature request logged for this issue, so at some moment it will be implemented :)
http://mantis.linuxmce.org/view.php?id=4013

Like a temporary solution, you consider installing one of the podcast fetching tools, like
podget - Podcast aggregrator/downloader optimized for cron
podracer - podcast aggregator/downloader
hpodder - Tool to scan and download podcasts (podcatcher)

and setup it download your *-casts to the place where LinuxMCE can find them and add the invocation of the tool to the cron for regular execution.