Hi Thomas, > Have you had another look at the playcount issue? Yes, I have. I found out that tracks that supposedly haven't been played yet have their 'Date played' field set to '--'. As you mentioned, it's probably not gPodder's fault. My songs experience the same problems but I never noticed it before.
> *) Set the bitrate to zero for "working" videos and see if this > breaks them on normal iPods Nope, this didn't break the video. > *) Set the bitrate to some non-zero value (maybe the real bitrate > value which you can get by first adding it via gtkpod and looking > at the set bitrate, then deleting it via gtkpod and sync via > gPodder); then, see if this makes the video appear on the iPod That didn't work. So the problem has to be somewhere else. > Maybe you want to write to the gtkpod/libgpod development mailing list > and ask about the status for iTunesDB chapter support in libgpod. I might. First, I'm gonna inquiry about the play counts issue though. Pieter On Dec 31, 2007 1:31 PM, Thomas Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Pieter! > > Pieter De Decker wrote: > > [...] However, you might be able to get the podcast > > play statuses working correctly by making gPodder check the play status > of a > > podcast to set the play count accordingly (i.e. if a podcast has been > > played, make sure that its play count is set to 1 and not 0). Is that > > possible? > > That's what we currently do, here's the relevant part from > libipodsync.py (if track.playcount == 0 then track.playcount = 1): > > > def set_podcast_flags( self, track, episode): > > if not ipod_supported(): > > return False > > try: > > # Add blue bullet next to unplayed tracks on 5G iPods > > # (only if the podcast has not been played locally already > > gl = libgpodder.gPodderLib() > > if gl.history_is_played(episode.url) and not > gl.config.on_sync_mark_played: > > track.mark_unplayed = 0x01 > > # Increment playcount if it's played locally > > # but still has zero playcount on iPod > > if track.playcount == 0: > > track.playcount = 1 > > elif track.playcount == 0: > > track.mark_unplayed = 0x02 > > I think the issue has to be somewhere else, then. Have you had another > look at the playcount issue? > > >> What about adding a video to the iPod using gtkpod? Is > >> that displayed in the iPod's menus then? > > > > Okay, so this is strange. I added a new video to my iPod using gtkpod, > and > > it showed up in the Video menu as normal. I even tried setting the > 'Media > > type' field (for a list of available options: > > http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3641/listoa4.jpg) from 'Video podcast' > to > > 'Video' to make the video podcast show up in the Video menu but that > didn't > > help. > > > > This video has been added manually to my iPod library, and this one > > *does*show up in the Video menu: > > http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9913/geoffdayjob1ya7.jpg > > http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/433/geoffdayjob2tr1.jpg > > http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2320/geoffdayjob3lc6.jpg > > http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4827/geoffdayjob4uw3.jpg > > http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8245/geoffdayjob5fe4.jpg > > (I also got this video to show up as a video podcast, by the way.) > > > > The video podcast I added to my iPod library using gPodder *doesn't* > show up > > in the Video menu. You've seen these screenshots before, but I'll give > you > > the links one more time for your convenience: > > http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1628/cnettopfive1as4.jpg > > http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6904/cnettopfive2up4.jpg > > http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5039/cnettopfive3bj9.jpg > > http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2563/cnettopfive4ow9.jpg > > http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9986/cnettopfive5lx3.jpg > > > > I don't see that much of a difference, except for the bitrate and sample > > rate. I checked my other video podcasts, they all have their bitrate and > > sample rate set to zero. I can change the value in these fields but I > doubt > > that that would help. > > So, even if the bitrate and samplerate are set to zero, the video > podcast works? Maybe the iPod relies on the video bitrate. Please try > these two things: > > *) Set the bitrate to zero for "working" videos and see if this > breaks them on normal iPods > > *) Set the bitrate to some non-zero value (maybe the real bitrate > value which you can get by first adding it via gtkpod and looking > at the set bitrate, then deleting it via gtkpod and sync via > gPodder); then, see if this makes the video appear on the iPod > > > I can't help but notice that the sample rate and bitrate are once again > set > > to 0. Hmm... Oh by the way, I believe that your iPod mini also supports > > enhanced podcasts. It might be easier to investigate this if you can > play > > with it yourself too, you know. :) > > I will try as soon as I reboot into OS X. Sadly, I'm still at 64k ISDN > here at home, so downloading anything bigger than 10 MiB fastly mutates > into a day job ;) > > >> Are enhanced podcasts added correctly when adding the single downloaded > >> file from the feed (m4a) using gtkpod? > > > > I can add them to my iPod manually but my iPod acts as if it was a > regular > > podcast, just like with any enhanced podcast I copied to my iPod using > > gPodder. Does that mean that this is a libgpod-related issue? > > I think it is, after doing some research on the web myself. The > "chapter" data (as seen on http://ipodlinux.org/ITunesDB) in the > iTunesDB holds information about the chapters. From what I read on the > web, iTunes extracts the chapter information from the m4a files and > writes it into the iTunesDB. libgpod/gtkpod only has support for "raw" > chapter files, meaning that it will not destroy chapter data (read raw, > write raw) that is in the iTunesDB, but it also means that there is no > way of "construction" chapter data in the iTunesDB. And even if it _was_ > possible, it would still mean that we would have to extract chapter data > from the m4a files, parse it correctly and then prepare and inject it > into the iTunesDB file. > > Maybe you want to write to the gtkpod/libgpod development mailing list > and ask about the status for iTunesDB chapter support in libgpod. > > > Good luck! > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > gpodder-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel >
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