Litepodder v1.0.0 for Popcorn Hour A-100/A-110/B-110 (podcast downloader)

[philofred]

(08-12-2010 11:20 AM)qwerik Wrote:  other questin... is the iPod Podcast format accepted by litepodder? or will it be?

If you mean the rss file pointed by the podcast URL, sure it is. It just should include the markup "enclosure" in the source to specify the media file to download.

[antherion]

Just wanted to share a small tip how to monitor download progress easier. Just download http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/, and associate it with .log files. After setting "download progress verbose" in general.txt to "yes" you can watch download progess in realtime just by clicking on a log file.

PS. Maybe not that much of a tip, but useful for me anyway.

[antherion]

(07-31-2010 09:58 PM)dc11ab Wrote:  Which wget version is used by Litepodder?

http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/wget-retr...40267.html

I think I've found a work-around for wget resume problem. Here http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wget-resum...nload.html it says that wget looks in the current directory and if there a file of the same name resumes it. So I changed "Incomplete Dowloads" to Apps/Litepodder directory. Now as wget stops and resumes it will append to the part of the file. I will test it today.

UPDATE: It's become even worse. Wget doesn't recognize the already downloaded part and resumes into a new file with "_1" added to filename (albeit in the same place).
So I will revert the "Incomplete Downloads" setting back to default, so that I can append those "resume" parts to the initially donwloaded ones.

UPDATE 2: Since version 1.11.1 the resume bug (which renames the file in case of interruption) was fixed. Here's a quote from dev.site
"Changes: Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming of the file." And they call it a "major bugfix".

Looks like it's really better to use Busybox version of wget instead of the old one from firmware. Is it possible to update Litepodder (use busybox and make set "Incomplete Downloads" to Litepoder folder)?

PS. In case my analysis is correct, cause I'm not a linux expert.

[bhelpuri]

Hi philofred,
This is very nice app for NMT and it is working great on my A-110. I would like to know if there is a method to download Youtube channels videos using it. I want to download the highest quality videos in mp4 format. Test RSS link is here link

[philofred]

(11-16-2010 05:13 AM)bhelpuri Wrote:  Hi philofred,
This is very nice app for NMT and it is working great on my A-110. I would like to know if there is a method to download Youtube channels videos using it. I want to download the highest quality videos in mp4 format. Test RSS link is here link

Thanks.
There's no "enclosure" markup in the channel RSS file, so video files are not explicitly declared with link, so no hope to download it from Litepodder.
Youtube and the channel want you to watch the dedicated Web page, that's part of the game.

[jasch]

I installed Litepodder on my C-200, ran it manually a couple of times, and worked beautifully.

But the 'automatic' downloads at 3 in the morning, are failing (I keep getting the same file over and over).

It seems files are not being updated:

Code:

touch: /share/Apps/Litepodder/databases/downloaded_items.txt: Permission denied
/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh: line 374: /share/Apps/Litepodder/databases/downloaded_items.txt: Permission denied

Strangely, the permissions seem fine.

Code:

-rwxr--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5420 Jan 21 06:59 downloaded_items.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 nmt      nmt           102 Jan 21 03:01 eligible_items.txt
-rwxr--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5522 Jan 21 07:00 last_items.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5318 Jan 21 03:18 parsed_items.txt

Any ideas?

Perhaps the user Litepodder is running from? (No idea how to check that)

Thanks

[dc11ab]

jasch; to see which user is running try
# ps aux |grep litepodder

[philofred]

(01-21-2011 02:15 PM)jasch Wrote:  I installed Litepodder on my C-200, ran it manually a couple of times, and worked beautifully.

But the 'automatic' downloads at 3 in the morning, are failing (I keep getting the same file over and over).

It seems files are not being updated:

Code:

touch: /share/Apps/Litepodder/databases/downloaded_items.txt: Permission denied
/share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh: line 374: /share/Apps/Litepodder/databases/downloaded_items.txt: Permission denied

Strangely, the permissions seem fine.

Code:

-rwxr--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5420 Jan 21 06:59 downloaded_items.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 nmt      nmt           102 Jan 21 03:01 eligible_items.txt
-rwxr--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5522 Jan 21 07:00 last_items.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 nmt      nmt          5318 Jan 21 03:18 parsed_items.txt

Any ideas?

Perhaps the user Litepodder is running from? (No idea how to check that)

Thanks

Strange. Automated system uses cron with user nmt.
On my side, here is the file list:

Code:

-rwxrwxrwx    1 nmt      nmt        481788 Jan 16 02:00 downloaded_items.txt
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nmt      nmt             0 Jan 16 02:00 eligible_items.txt
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nmt      nmt             0 Jan 16 02:00 last_items.txt
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nmt      nmt         18398 Jan 16 02:01 parsed_items.txt

See the rwxrwxrwx for each. It could come from here.
Try a chmod 777 on each file.

[jasch]

(01-21-2011 02:30 PM)dc11ab Wrote:  jasch; to see which user is running try
# ps aux |grep litepodder

Yeah....

Code:

sh-3.00# ps aux |grep litepodder
ps: invalid option -- 'a'

IT works without the AUX.

Code:

sh-3.00# ps  | grep 'litepodder'
2871 nmt       3280 S    /bin/sh /share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
2917 nmt       3280 S    /bin/sh /share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
3151 nmt       3280 S    /bin/sh /share/Apps/Litepodder/litepodder.sh
3259 root      3424 R    grep litepodder

[dc11ab]

(01-22-2011 01:51 AM)jasch Wrote:  Yeah....

I keep forgetting I'm on busybox and not a Mac ;-)

[leppikallio]

Litepodder is very promising. However feeds requiring authentication are troublesome. Here in Finland we have a "Internet DVR" service which requires login. For feed itself it is possible to get it working with format

http://username:password@<url>

and Litepodder sees the rss feed correctly. However the feed includes links to certain videos and those won't download because there is no way to authenticate. I guess it should work if download happened in the same process context / session as the main feed is fetched. Here is a sample xml:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='yes'?>

<rss version="2.0">
   <channel>
      <title>karvinen - TVkaista title search</title>
      <link>http://www.tvkaista.fi</link>
      <description>RSS feed for title search: karvinen</description>
      <language>fi-fi</language>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
      <lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:38:37 +0000</lastBuildDate>
      <ttl>15</ttl>
      <item>
         <title>Karvinen</title>
         <description>Murtovaras. No mutta, sehän on Karvinen. Laiska ja lihava, raivostuttava ja rakastettava kissamme tulee jälleen elämänfilosofioineen.</description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
         <link>http://www.tvkaista.fi/search/?findid=9809821</link>
         <guid>http://www.tvkaista.fi/search/?findid=9809821</guid>
         <source url="http://www.tvkaista.fi/feed/channels/1008/ts.rss">YLE TV2</source>
         <enclosure url="http://www.tvkaista.fi/recordings/download/9809821.ts" length="459869620" type="video/mp2t"/></item>
      <item>
         <title>Karvinen</title>
         <description>Hurja koulutus. No mutta, sehän on Karvinen. Laiska ja lihava, raivostuttava ja rakastettava kissamme tulee jälleen elämänfilosofioineen.</description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
         <link>http://www.tvkaista.fi/search/?findid=9864294</link>
         <guid>http://www.tvkaista.fi/search/?findid=9864294</guid>
         <source url="http://www.tvkaista.fi/feed/channels/1008/ts.rss">YLE TV2</source>
         <enclosure url="http://www.tvkaista.fi/recordings/download/9864294.ts" length="497495376" type="video/mp2t"/></item>
      <item>
         <title>Karvinen</title>
...
   </channel>

</rss>

It would be beyond awesome and epic if I could use Litepodder to download cartoons for kids...

[philofred]

(03-09-2011 01:42 PM)leppikallio Wrote:  Litepodder is very promising. However feeds requiring authentication are troublesome. Here in Finland we have a "Internet DVR" service which requires login. For feed itself it is possible to get it working with format

http://username:password@<url>

and Litepodder sees the rss feed correctly. However the feed includes links to certain videos and those won't download because there is no way to authenticate. I guess it should work if download happened in the same process context / session as the main feed is fetched. Here is a sample xml:
...
It would be beyond awesome and epic if I could use Litepodder to download cartoons for kids...

At first sight it should be possible. Let me few days.
Process will be based on error-retry with you because I have no test site or account unless you know one.

[jasch]

How about an update to Litepodder to filter results?

I love IGN programming, unfortunately they only have one RSS feed (http://feeds.ign.com/ignfeeds/podcasts/games), and that feeds comes with MP4's, MP3's, WAVs, etc.

I would love to be able to filter results, and download only *.MP4s.

Furthermore it could be filtered down a little more, to download only DAILYFIX*.MP4s,

Thanks for a great utility.