GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 773703
Podcast: Totem should display all video episodes for a podcast feed.
Last modified: 2016-10-31 14:18:12 UTC
Created attachment 338798 [details] Screenshot: Displaying search results for "Tech Minute" Refer: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-minute-hd/id902553592?mt=2 When I search for "Tech minute" under "Totem -> Channels -> iTunes podcast", it shows the Tech Minute thumbnails. Clicking on the first thumbnail plays the oldest video episode ( Digitize your handwriting and drawing ) in the podcast feed. Expected behavior: Clicking on the "Tech Minute" thumbnail should further load the episodes ( 10 episodes as of this writing ), and let the user select the episode to play.
As we don't know how to filter out video podcasts, the podcasts aren't supposed to show up in totem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 771445 ***
I don't understand. Rhythmbox uses "totem-pl-parser" to parse rss xml podcast feeds, and displays the episodes in a feed correctly. This bug request was just to list the episodes of a feed, when a feed is clicked ( rather than automatically playing an entry in the feed ). Whether the podcast is a video or an audio podcast should not be much worry for totem, as totem can handle both ( it is valid use case to use totem to play mp3 files ). Refer attachment where an audio podcast is playing fine in totem. I absolutely don't see any issue with it. When the episodes within a feed is obtained ( when clicked ), as below: Audio podcast entry: -------------------- <item> ... <media:content url="http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p04d7mh7.mp3" fileSize="18526666" type="audio/mpeg" medium="audio" expression="full" duration="1588"/> ... </item> Video podcast entry: -------------------- <item> ... <enclosure length="64275390" type="video/x-m4v" url="http://podcasts.apple.com/apple_in_business/ios_quick_tips/media/Tips_For_Business_Square_Register.mp4"/> ... </item> the content type ( audio / video ) is available to totem, based on which it can display a small overlay icon in the bottom right corner of each episode ( denoting audio / video podcast ), and the user would be perfectly fine with that. This however is an issue with Rhythmbox, which cannot handle video podcasts. So, it has to know beforehand, as to whether the feed has any audio episodes at all, before display the feed in the search results.
Created attachment 338831 [details] Screenshot: Totem playing audio podcast.
We don't show podcasts, so the point really is moot. I'm not fixing bugs that can't (or shouldn't) occur. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 771445 ***