Anybody use amarok for video podcasts?

[Jeff Simpson]

Thanks! I'll try it again with that podcast and see what the difference is.

So you said it was going at 12mb/s -  the full 200mb was done in
under, say 30 seconds or so? I'll see if it goes that fast for me and
go from there.

I suspect the difference is that I am trying to use a local podcast -
I already have all the files on my local disk, along with xml files. I
imagine amarok treats local files and URLs that link to local files
differently, and testing that podcast that you tested should tell me
something. I might take the same video and make a "local" version of
it to see if it makes a difference.

Thanks again!

 - Jeff

On 10/19/07, Christian Ober-Blöbaum <cob at tzi.de> wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
>
> I am not using my iPod for videos and therefore never tested it before.
>
> But because your mail sounded so sad I gave it a try. ;-)
>
> I tested it with the following podcast (no comments please - it just
> came to my mind first...):
> http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/DE/Service/RSS/Functions/bundeskanzlerinPodCastRSS20,templateId=renderNewsfeed.xml
>
> I downloaded about 10 podcasts (so about 200 MB) and then transferred
> them to the iPod watching the transfer rate in gkrellm. And I have to
> say that I did not notice any slowness. It was the normal USB-Speed of
> about 12 MB per second.
>
> So the problem can not be generally related to amarok.
>
> Some more details on my iPod and my software environment:
>
> iPod: 5th generation, 30GB, firmware version 1.2.1, HFS+ formatted
> (without journalling of course)
> Linux: Ubuntu Feisty, kernel 2.6.22.6, amarok 1.4.7, libgpod 0.4.2
>
> I hope you find the reason for your problem soon.
>
> Bye,
> Christian.
>
> Am Freitag, den 19.10.2007, 12:23 -0400 schrieb Jeff Simpson:
> > Am I really the only person using Amarok for video podcasts??
> >
> > On 10/18/07, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > > > Is Amarok (or rather the media device interface layer)
> > > > resampling/rencoding the video for your iPod when it perhaps doesn't
> > > > need to? I don't own any such device or do any video podcasting so just
> > > > a wild stab in the dark!
> > >
> > > The interface certainly doesn't make it look like that's what's
> > > happening, and as far as I could tell looking through the code,
> > > there's no support for that sort of thing. That's a good guess though.
> > > Hopefully somebody who wrote that code for amarok can chime in with an
> > > idea of what it's supposed to be doing.
> > >
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