http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/podcasts/latest.xml

[spambaggs]

Having problems with podtrapper. It doesn't seem to like this "Reasonably mainstream feed".

http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/podcasts/latest.xml

Can anyone help?

[arkolbus]

Having problems with podtrapper. It doesn't seem to like this "Reasonably mainstream feed".

http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/podcasts/latest.xml

Can anyone help?

What do you mean by "doesn't seem to like" the feed? Is PT having trouble connecting to the feed, downloading the videos, or playing the videos?

My hunch is that PT isn't playing the videos, so that's what I'll assume (that, and I wouldn't be able to help with the other problems). PT uses the Blackberry Media Player for all media playback (audio and video). Video support on the BB is lackluster at best. Test to see if BBMP can actually handle the video. There are two ways you can do this:
Under PT->Main Screen->Menu->Settings->Playback Settings, enable "Show files in Media Player". Go to the BB Media Player, browse to the file (in your PT directory). Try playing the file.
-OR-
Get the video on your BB some other way (media card, USB, PT->Menu->Download File, etc), and try playing it in BBMP.

If BBMP doesn't play it, there's your problem.

[spambaggs]

It doesn't even seem to be downloading the media. For some, it will show 24bytes, which obviously isn't correct.

I'm using a bb bold with podtrapper 2.1.0.

[arkolbus]

It doesn't even seem to be downloading the media. For some, it will show 24bytes, which obviously isn't correct.

I think the problem is on apple's end. When you go to the feed in a web browser and try to download the file (right click -> save target as) it downloads an html file. Seems Apple is redirecting requests for the enclosed files to their main trailer page (http://www.apple.com/trailers/). Podtrapper (and anything else trying to download the file) ends up downloading the trailer.html page (~24k).

My hunch is they check the user agent (the software doing the download), and redirect anything that isn't iTunes. It's shady, but that's par for the course with Apple. If you're not using iTunes, the only easy way to watch the trailers from this feed is to view them through your browser. I'm only assuming that they let it work with iTunes, otherwise there's no point in having the podcast feed to begin with.

The user-agent data can usually be spoofed. Maybe Marcus can implement that as a feature if you request it.

You also may want to try downloading the video in iTunes, sending it over USB to your BB, and try playing it in BBMP, just to see if your BB can handle it and if its even worth trying some roundabout solution.

[spambaggs]

Excellent Analysis. This seems spot on. Thanks.

[marwatk]

I put it on the todo list. I *hate* when people serve different content to different user agents. I'll get this in the next beta. Bad Apple.

-Marcus

[marwatk]

Hey guys,

I put in an 'Impersonate iTunes' option in each podcast's settings. I tested it with this feed and it seems to work. Let me know how it goes for you.
http://ota.versatilemonkey.com/beta/

-Marcus

[spambaggs]

Thanks. I just tried it out ,and it works great!

[surfacinglove]

This podcast downloads a very small video, is there one out there that will download trailers for a larger size, say 480x360 for the Storm?

[San Juan]

Try the updated 2.5.0 program.
There are many feeds that don't download. Can't figure out why, must be on the feed end.
Also I get feeds that are PDF's, Obviously these won't play but you have to look at the file name and see the .pdf to see why it won't.

[arkolbus]

Try the updated 2.5.0 program.
There are many feeds that don't download. Can't figure out why, must be on the feed end.
Also I get feeds that are PDF's, Obviously these won't play but you have to look at the file name and see the .pdf to see why it won't.

Which feeds won't download, and which feeds are giving you PDF's? Post the URL's if you can (can be found by opening the podcast settings)