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[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Feed REMOVED - USE THE OFFICIAL ONE

OK, the podcast is live, running and working nicely.

Just watched two more and I am definitely a fan!

Excellent work guys, totally worth the effort to make a podcast for, I hope it helps spread the XdaTv goodness.

XDA Insider - Good start to the series, really great to see some of the faces behind the posts. I look forward to seeing more!

Android ROM Rundown - I don't have a proper android device but it is interesting to see what is being done to the roms which are out there and the features that are available and being developed.

azrienoch Weekly Recap - There is nothing I can say which can describe this one, it's just something you have to watch and then you are hooked. Love it!

Quality work here guys, keep it up!
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Updated the podcast to include the latest videos.

Most recent:

azrienoch Weekly Recap – 18 March – XDA TV

I've dropped the flv files, since the mp4 files are working fine on my device (and no one has given an opinion, so I'll not upload new flv files).
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Podcast is updated to "azrienoch Weekly Recap 8 April XDA TV".

Enjoy!
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Updated for:

Sam’s XDA Daily Round Up – 12 April – XDA TV
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Just found this, thanks for working on it! I'm just wondering where exactly you're at or how you maintain it, because I'm hearing that you convert and download them, then add them to the feed, am I correct? Even if there's not a way to download directly, there's got to be a way to automate the process. Let me know, I'm willing to help brainstorm ideas.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Yes, unfortunately I do it manually, hence the lag in posting them.

The main problem is the video files and I don't have direct you-tube access during the day (which is why podcasting them is my best option). It started as an experiment to play around with how Podcasts are generated, but I found it is the easiest way to keep up with XdaTV for me.

I use KeepVid.com to get the files, which generates a download url for me (but I think it generates a session id in order to download the files so I can't link directly unfortunately).

The extra problem is after I get the videos I have to upload them to a file share site which supports direct linking (no captchas) - currently using FileDen, which is ok at the moment, but it does have bandwidth limits.

Then I can add the info into the rss file,

<title>
<description>
<link> - Use the link to xda portal post
<enclosure url>
<pubDate>

I then push it through Google Feedburner, which adds a layer so you can keep a static address for the feed (and it also provides stats and re-links the videos).

Unfortunately, I think YouTube did have the ability to provide podcast feeds automatically at one point (it's documented in the feed api somewhere) but I think it's been removed for a while now (I expect since it by-passes the advert system it was not much use).

____________________________________________________

Now to automate this...

Considering the youtube feed has all the required info in (except the video!):

http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/xdadevelopers/videos.rss

It wouldn't take too much to adjust that feed to create a new podcast feed if the video links were available and in a consistent format from somewhere (either date or the youtube id perhaps "PvXb7B1ihQg.mp4"). That is something I can probably code up without too much trouble (the code I use for the RSSTab is doing similar things).

SO if the videos can be hosted somewhere, I can make a program to generate the rest of the podcast automatically, and perhaps upload it too. Otherwise, I'm going to find it difficult to keep up!

Anyway, XdaTV is so good, I am more than happy to spend the time and effort to get it podcasting and help spread the quality entertainment. No reason at all why the podcast couldn't be added to iTunes etc once it is up and running correctly (will have to find out what is required to do that though).
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
If we were to render in a small format as well as in a large one for YouTube and then send the small one to you when we upload the other, that'd help. Not sure what the space limitations are for the host you're using, but we might be able to convince the admins to host on xda and that'd solve that problem.

What resolution and size are the videos youre hosting now?
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Thanks that would be handy.

I currently use MP4 640x360, simply because that seems to be a good mix between size (usually end up about 20 - 25mb) and quality, and it also plays ok on my Touch HD (which I think is a reasonable baseline).

The host allows up to 1Gb in total (which is plenty, most podcasts don't archive old files), with 5Gb a month bandwidth. At the moment that is fine, since there seem to be only a few users so far.

EDIT: I've just noticed something else! FileDen is blacklisted by my Phone carrier as adult (still trying to get my carrier to remove adult blocking), so probably worth moving from using FileDen anyway.

It may be possible to use dropbox, which has a limit of 10GB per day (apparently), which would probably be plenty. I just avoided using my account for it since I also use it for development work and didn't want to mix the two. In fact might work quite nicely since the public links are predictable "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/[DROPBOX_ID]/[YOUTUBE_ID].mp4".
[XDA Developer TV] Babydollll:
Could I humbly request (at some point in the future) an audio version for podcatchers like MY POD, GOOGLE LISTEN ect? :D Please?
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Okay, send me whatever login info I need and where to put it and I'll render a copy for podcasting. Would you happen to know the bitrate? Once I have a good starting point, I can play around with it and see if we can get that filesize down further. Then archiving is easy, zip together every month or two and post to megaupload, then keep a catalogue of the archives in a thread like this, or a designated webpage if we can get it.

Audio is easy, want me to send that too?
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
I'll send you my Dropbox details and we can work on a shared folder. I can start working on the required app for automating it directly on there, but to start with we should be able to do it manually if we have the files ready.

We can generate an audio version too without too much trouble, once it's automated, will just get the processing in place first.

It looks like the YouTube feed is limited to 25 items (XdaTv has 26 now), in theory the automated update software could preserve the old items as part of the process or we can keep it simple and only host the last 25. In theory, we have space for around 80 videos, so either is fine for the short-term (personally I like to have the option to view them all if I subscribe to a new podcast).
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Then I say we go for all of them. Don't need to immediately, but it's a good near-future goal.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
No problem. I've added your most recent video you uploaded (22nd) - plays perfectly on the HD Touch and I've added all the previous videos from the other podcast.

Just missing the following:

21/04/2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdpwYisfM8

16/04/2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvXb7B1ihQg

15/04/2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFBx5JOOna0

14/04/2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_v1OQ669s

13/04/2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmROId-nGQ

Which I can either process like I used to or they can be uploaded by the others, just let me know.

Will have a go at some point in writing the program to do the podcast automatically. We can either create a joint dropbox account (I didn't realise you can't share write access to the public folder) or in theory I can get it to look in each publishers dropbox public account for the specific file (as long as the youtube id is used as the filename).

I'll change the name and logo for the feed (DONE), get the missing videos and then we can release the feed.
[XDA Developer TV] samcaplat:
FTP

I'd happily upload to my FTP, or any, for you in a set size and format, to save you the time. Would that be easier for you?
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
That would be great, thanks for your support. I've just watched your 1st three using the podcast feed, great stuff!

Will see how this app I have in mind works out, but ideally we want it to allow any of the xdatv publishers to be able to update it, should just be a case of putting the video in the right place, and running the app (which will grab the youtube feed, take the details and then look for a matching video in the host locations). Anyway, will have a look into it when I get some time to do so.

I'll probably make it an windows mobile app/windows app, since that is what the code is in for the RSStab, but hopefully might be able to make it run on both windows/windows mobile, just depends on how .net copes.
[XDA Developer TV] TheDeadCPU:
Moved this to the XDA TV section, hope you guys don't mind ;)
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
It's all shiny and new here! :)
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
I've added them to the public folder now, so they can be added to the podcast. Hopefully I'll try to get the app to add them, if I can!

That will bring us up to date, with the latest:

azrienoch Weekly Recap – 22 April – XDA TV
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
I need to get on my desktop and check which episodes those are that are missing. Mostly reminding myself with this post.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Oh. Scratch that mental note, I guess.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
No worries.

The app is almost there now, will just need some new videos to try it out with!

UPDATE:

Chad has posted a video, and the app picks it up nicely and also detects that the link (i.e. video) is not there yet!

Think the podcast is ready to go live now.

Let me know what you would like to do, we can either create a shared dropbox account (share the login info) and each upload the vids/podcast file when there is an update to the public folder or you guys can put your vids on to your own public folders and I can get the app to check for and link to each one.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Very nice! Svetius?
[XDA Developer TV] mike2nl:
meltwater :D:D:D

when you will publish the first beta sense tab cab file??
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
I think the next sense tab will be one with azrienoch just staring at you...perhaps muttering "why?" now and again.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
OH LET'S DO THAT!!
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Someone must think of the children, think of the mental scarring.

The podcast was missing a description for the overall podcast, so I've borrowed svetius' fine text and added that. I'll update when I've been able to download Chad's video or if you can get him to put it on the dropbox.

When I get some time I'll sit down and grab all the audio files from the old videos and allow the app to process that too. The main issue is just getting the videos available, the rest is now done.
[XDA Developer TV] ChadHughes:
My contributions are as follows, and subject to change:

I will be providing dropbox links for any videos I do. Although as of late I have been short on content (ROM rundowns got tired after a little while) I have a few videos recorded.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Excellent, once you've PM'd me the 1st link, if you name the files to the YouTube id's [i.e. sO9NSfbi9MI.mp4], I can get the Podcast app to just look for any new files automatically in the same folder as and when you have them.

That is probably the easiest way. Once that is running smoothly, we can probably move the podcast file to a common area and then any of us can update it using the app.

Anyway, will look forward to your new videos too!
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Ok, the podcast is 5 videos behind, so I shall aim to grab the videos off youtube tonight and update.

Might start look into enabling the audio podcast too.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Ok, all the latest videos uploaded last night.

That was until Chad posted his!!!! #@~###

Anyway, once I had all the videos in place, update took about 30 seconds...
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
I'm away until the end of May so updates will return when I get back.
[XDA Developer TV] mike2nl:
meltwater, so far i can help with my poor lua and m9 skill :p, i will help out. Don't be shy to ask me.

BTW:

sense util is nearly fixed.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Back from holiday and I've updated the podcast with all the recent videos, enjoy and thanks for supporting the podcast.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
XdaTV Podcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/XdaTv

XdaTV Audio Podcast - http://feeds.feedburner.com/XdaTvAudio

We now have an audio version of the podcast!

The audio podcast has mp3 links for all the videos from 1st May on-wards, I shall gradually add the missing ones as and when I get time to do so.

Alternatively if you are willing to do this, then let me know and I'll send you the info to do it - 29 files are needed, so should take an hour to do.

Please spread the Podcast links far and wide! The louder the voice Xda has, the more notice manufacturers will take of the development community.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Got a PM after the last show begging for captions for viewers who can't hear the video for one reason or another. Any way that I can send you transcripts that post with the video?
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Humm, I've not done anything with subtitles before, I guess they have to be time coded to sync them.

Also not sure what files, (idx/sub perhaps), work with the mp4 files. Also I don't know if the podcast format will support downloading of a subtitle file along with the subtitle file...

I guess if they just want a transcript, I can easily put a link for them to download/open up from the item details at least. Would that be any use?

I can get the podcast updater app to check for the file and add it just like the video/audio. If you want to save sending them I can get the app to check in a specified dropbox public folder of your choosing and then add the link to the notes if present.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Oh no, the person was asking for subtitles. That's a lot of work. No, I just mean posting the transcript with the video in the rss feed. I have the transcripts on google documents and I can share them with you.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
OH WAIT. Just discovered something FRIGGIN' COOL on YouTube. Apparently you can upload a transcript to youtube in either English or Japanese and it'll do what it can to sync the words. Gotta get svetius to try this.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
OK no problem, let me know if I need to do anything to support it, quite happy to add anything to the podcast as long as I can automate it (otherwise I know I'll not update often enough).

Shall look forward to seeing!
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Made a new thread about it in XDATV, Closed Captions.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Problem for the podcast.... appears it is a victim of it's own success...

Drop box have informed me that the bandwidth usage is too high and have suspended the account temporarily.

Therefore we need a better hosting solution...

Stats are:

16,838 views of 66 items

Chances are without a new hosting solution I'll have to shut it down. :(
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
If we can't host on xda we'll figure something out. Anyone have ideas just in case?
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Right!

The latest stats from feedburner sheds some light on why the bandwidth was so high!

46,818 views of 66 items

Ideas welcome for hosting, and I'm sure that the host details can be added to the podcast details as a reward. Wondering if getting in with Revision3 could be possible.

Something makes me think it's been noticed somewhere.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Have you seen nathanpc's unofficial xda tv app? I think it pulls from the dropbox. Actually makes a good complement, if you ask me. If that's true, you could ask him to stop, but he'd be faced with the same dilemma. It's up to you, but I think it is much better to work with him for solutions.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
OH is that where he's been getting it from? IF that's the case then some kind of asking before hand would have been welcome. I'll look into it in any case.

I'd not been following the thread, but yes after totalling the bandwidth I believe he's moved it to his own space on Rackspace. Should mean the podcast will be unaffected now.
[XDA Developer TV] azrienoch:
Awesome, I love it when things work out by themselves.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Yep NathanPC is happy to work with me to keep the podcast running. In return I'll see what I can do to help him with his app... Hopefully win-win.

The podcast should now keep pace with the XdaTv app and therefore better with the youtube releases (rather than me finding time in the evenings to do the download/uploading etc). Will see if we can bring the audio one up to date and perhaps expand the XdaTv app features (this would be a good place to make use of the CC option if it works).
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Ok, falling behind on updates (8 behind on the videos and the audio version is well behind).

For video, this is because I switched over to using Nathanpc's server to provide videos (with permission) and it appears that they are not being updated now.

For audio, this is because Nathanpc was not doing audio versions at the time I switched, but by linking to his videos my updates could be done in about 10seconds, so I didn't get around to doing mp3 conversions.

What to do?

I have two issues which need help if we want the podcast:

1. Someone needs to grab the videos/audio (I don't have access to youtube at the times when I would normally be able to do this). Although it sounds time consuming, I do have some tools available which will automate this process, so it'll be a case of pressing a few buttons and it will get the new files each time, and update the podcast feeds. Aside from uploading/downloading times, the user action required is minimal. No doubt with a little more work it could be streamlined further.

2. Hosting.... The files have to sit somewhere where they can be downloaded, clearly you will need to have a few Gb of space (only really need to bother with the new videos as the links to the existing ones can stay while they work, typical video is about 40Mb). Also will need to have direct links (i.e. not like megaupload or rapidshare where captcha are needed or box.net where links are not predictable - dropbox public space works and the numbers of downloads are low enough not to be an issue).

So if there is interest, then let me know, otherwise I'm not sure if the podcast will continue or not, at least in it's current form.
[XDA Developer TV] juniwalk:
Hi there,

I've started to watch your video podcast two days ago. I could not notice that it's outdated so I've came back here to chceck whats going on.

Well, I'm not a developer for Android or Windows but I'm Web developer so I decided to take my part here.

I've started to work on a script which will get Youtube video RSS and turn it into Video Podcast (I will use your XML pattern for compatibility).

Ah and for the 'hosting thing' - I'll try to point to youtube. Why copy videos to another hosting when we can grab them from youtube? :)

See you when I'm done.
[XDA Developer TV] meltwater:
Thanks to Nathanpc we now have new videos.

You are right, if we can grab them directly from YouTube then it would be fine and would solve a lot of problems. I think the RSS YouTube feed is limited to the last 20 only videos, but that's not a huge problem (can provide an archive version of the feed if needed).

I've also worked on a similar script, but the device I wanted it for didn't run python correctly so didn't have chance to finish it. Currently looking for an alternative way to run python on the device or different grabbing script.

As far as I know, there are no podcast apps which support directly downloading from YouTube, it's something which I hope my favourite android podcast app will do one day.

Anyway, let me know how you get on, with a bit of work could have a good solution, particularly if it can be made to select formats/audio only and allow you to select different YouTube users.

I will have another look in the Android market too, it may well present a pre-built solution - the wheel does not always need reinventing (ok looks like some are available, will test and see, i.e. TubeMate).
[XDA Developer TV] huahaonam:
yes, it's me like
[XDA Developer TV] mtbsoft.:
Just saw this. I would seriously appreciate having transcripts of the xdatv videos made available with each video. Video just doesn't do it for me - I speed read so can usually gather far more information from the transcript of a show or whatever in much less time than it takes to watch the video. If I then need to see something in the video, I can seek to that part - it's so much more efficient for me.

In addition, when I'm on the train I'm regularly in areas where the coverage is lousy and video simply isn't an option, having a link to the transcript in the RSS feed (rather than on youtube) would be awesome. Cheers.
[XDA Developer TV] karabasan61:
eenBay answer

woow thank bro !
[XDA Developer TV] wtherrell:
I'm the same. The videos are pretty useless for me. I think that the information is valuable but I need it in readable form.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SpiritWolf:
I have been attempting to get WP7 working on my hd2, but have given up as I just can't get the thing to activate. So I have been trying to put android back on, but nothing I try installing now comes out bootable. I've even tried putting it back to an official rom before installing (or trying to) android. whereas that rom works, the android install still fails to boot.

Anyone got any suggestions?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Richy99:
which rom are you trying to install? cwm or daf install?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SpiritWolf:
cwm install, imilka's vision sense.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] borda01:
Hi,

I have HD2 with 3.03.0000 SPL, 2.15.50.14 radio, ROM 3.14.479.2 (04666) WWE.

I tried to boot SuperRAM_FroYo_V1.5.

Everything is ok, but when green HTC logo appears, phone is restarting to Windows... Can someone tell me what I need to do to boot Android ? I tried to search, but I dont find answer.

Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SpiritWolf:
Looking into it farther, it's looking like when i try to install from clockworkmod recovery (3.0.0.5) that I have booting off my sd-card, the install goes far too wuick. it doesn't even create partitions or anything. Could it be the wp7 rom caused some areas of the phone to be 'locked' or something similar?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] borda01:
Same is happening with 1.42.000 & 2.15.14 radio.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
You have reformatted your SD Card to original size after using WP7, have you? If not, download Panaspnic SD Formatter and format your SD card using that.

Are you guys making sure you have right CWR system layout size for the ROM you're trying to flash? That's usually the problem if it won't get past the first Android bootscreen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chrisgto4:
Task 29

Flash radio

Reformat sdcard

Flash magdlr1.13

Flash cwm recovery with correct partition size.150, 200mb etc.

Flash rom

Tbe task 29 and sdcard reformat should revers any possibilities of something still hanging around from wp7

2.15 radio

2.2miui stock via cwm
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Skellyyy:
Only use this if just flashing the correct CWR partition won't work. There's also no need to reflash the radio. Task 29 only formats the NAND area.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SpiritWolf:
Yeah, I did a full set of partitions on my sd card. not sure it was needed as wp7 didn't recognise the card.