Anybody use amarok for video podcasts?

[Christian Ober-Blöbaum]

Some more clarification: I right-clicked the podcasts in amarok and
selected to download the files so they are locally available. 
After that I had to shortly play all of them at least once; because
otherwise amarok would download them from the internet again when I put
them on the iPod and click "transfer".

So might that be your problem? Not having played the files so that
amarok loads them again from the web in stead of using the local files?

Greetings,
Christian.

Am Freitag, den 19.10.2007, 16:43 -0400 schrieb 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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