[CALUG] Podcast *player* plug-in for Firefox 1.5?

[Rajiv Gunja]

Ed,
First off, thanks for introducing me to "bashpodder". I have been searching
for days if not weeks for a good, easy podcast downloader for Linux. I was
afraid that I would use iTunes under Windows/VMware. (iTunes on Linux/Wine
is version 4, so there is no menu for podcasting).

I downloaded bashpodder and now I have all my news and talk shows downloaded
for me by cron.

Regarding your question, that website, the "play" button, is associated not
only with a javascript, but also to the player/streamer the website
maintainer/designer has purchased. For example, if you go to my favourite
website, http://www.bbc.co.uk (or http://www.npr.org) you can click on the
play button, you can either play using RealPlayer or WMP, but in most of
their live feeds, BBC does not support WMP. Meaning, they have Real Media
Producer and also have limited license to Windows Media streamer.

I have Real Media Producer and it is very easy, but I feel most comfortable
with Macromedia Flash MX, so I do all my audio and video streaming using
flash MX. In your case that website is looking for quicktime plugin, since
the under lying streamer is quicktime based.

By the way since you use bashpodder, I have question for you. Is there a way
to tell bashpodder to download only the latest podcasts? When I put in
couple of URLs, it started downloading all the podcasts that existed on that
website for that show. ( still new to podcasting)

Thanks

-GGR

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On 2/19/06, Browne at t-online.de <Browne at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi CALUG,
>     There are actually several questions in here.  Start with a podcast
> like this:
>
> http://www.podcast.net/show/17589
>
> I can *subscribe* to that podcast, no problem (I use "BashPodder",
> simple but effective.)  But you'll notice there is a little green icon
> labeled "play" (sort of like a preview of the podcast.)  If you mouse
> over it, you see "javascript:player('http://www.podcast.net/play/17589/7'
> )"
> If you click on it, it says I need a plugin (if I pursue that, I believe
> the
> plugin it says I need is Quicktime.)
>
> My question is - how and why is this different than ordinary audio,
> where you can associate a plugin or extermal application with a mime
> type or a file suffix?  When I get these podcasts (via the BashPodder
> method), they are simple MP3 files.  Why do they use this
> "javascript:player"
> approach, and can't I just force it to simply play the MP3 the way it
> normally
> does (launching RealPlayer)?  AFAIK, Quicktime is not available for
> Linux, anyway I don't see why that association is made for me, and how
> I can break it.
>
> TIA - Ed
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