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Videocatcher is an Internet television application powered by KDE. Videocatcher makes it easy to subscribe to video channels (RSS/atom feeds etc.) and download new videos. It works as a podcast client as well.
It is similar to Miro but is lightweight and powered by KDE.
Videocatcher now has a website: http://videocatcher.zanoi.net
Videocatcher requires KDE 4.4 for notification area (system tray) support. Thus there is no notification area (system tray) support in distributions which have KDE 4.3 or below.
10 years ago
0.1.8 Now with dynamic play menu!
- Create dynamic play menu based on mime type of downloaded file
- Icon now located in Internet category of Application menus
- Under the hood improvements
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0.1.7 Now with episode information panel!
- Added episode information panel (thanks to Omar Plummer for the patch)
- Handbook now available
- Major code cleanup
- Bugfixes
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0.1.6 Now with automatic refreshes!
- Automatic channel refresh
- Channel list context menu
- Removed "Refresh Channel" button from toolbar
- Better (but still not perfect) recognition of already downloaded and deleted files
- Bugfixes
10 years ago
0.1.8 Now with dynamic play menu!
- Create dynamic play menu based on mime type of downloaded file
- Icon now located in Internet category of Application menus
- Under the hood improvements
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0.1.7 Now with episode information panel!
- Added episode information panel (thanks to Omar Plummer for the patch)
- Handbook now available
- Major code cleanup
- Bugfixes
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0.1.6 Now with automatic refreshes!
- Automatic channel refresh
- Channel list context menu
- Removed "Refresh Channel" button from toolbar
- Better (but still not perfect) recognition of already downloaded and deleted files
- Bugfixes
avlas
10 years ago
Thanks for making videocatcher, I really like it. A couple of feature requests: (1) it would be great if videocatcher could download and show the channel icon, and (2) be able to edit the channel's properties.
Thanks
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zanoi
10 years ago
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avlas
10 years ago
Yeah! that was the settings I was thinking about, to be possible to modify the channel name to some one shorter or that you would like more, or recognize better... and to give the possibility to update the url when necessary, e.g. if podcasts moves their location
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zanoi
10 years ago
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avlas
10 years ago
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gcala
10 years ago
I want to thank you for your work, the program is nice; it is the first time that I use a similar program. For the moment I have only one request: add a 'Stream Episode' button beside 'Download' in toolbar.
Thanks
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zanoi
10 years ago
There should be a "Stream Episode" button to the far right of the toolbar. I also think it should be next to the download button, but unfortunately whether streaming works or not really depends on which program you are using for playback. With Dragon Player (the default) streaming often doesn't work, with VLC it's great. I don't want people to click the stream button and then think my program doesn't work :)
So the stream button is there, but the download button is much more visible and currently that's the best solution I think.
If you have any better ideas feel free to tell me :)
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gcala
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
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gcala
10 years ago
More requests:
* change order in "Channels List"
* context menu in "Channels List" for easy access to related operations: move, delete, add, rename, etc.
Regards
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zanoi
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
I've been planning a context menu in the channels list for a long time but never got around to doing. I will add one in the next version as well.
I agree that channel list sorting would be nice. I just implemented channel sorting to test it. Unfortunately it puts an extra bar on top of the channel list and the only new functionality one gets it to be able to have the channel list in reverse alphabetical order. So I can't quite decide whether I should add it or not.
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late answer, I've been without Internet for a while!
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zanoi
10 years ago
Regarding channel list sorting, I figured out you probably mean more than the sorting that is already supported in the episode list. You want to be able to create a custom order for the channels. I will have a look at how hard it is to support that.
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DonVla
10 years ago
One feature request:
1) Could you please add some support for miro or itunes links. I don't know whether this is much work.
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zanoi
10 years ago
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saLOUtions
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
Back when Miro forced me to use it's built in media player I had lots of critical problems with the player, which made it almost impossible to use Miro.
Now that I have the external playback I'm thinking about maybe adding Phonon support as an option, but currently have other things that have higher priority...
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drmarco31
10 years ago
I like very much videocatcher. I would like to contribute to report a small bug :
When using for example this channel : http://www.arte.tv/podcast/rss/Court-circuit-off_f.xml
the status of all the episodes is marked as "not available". The link provided by "copy link location" is blank.
However, at first sight, the corresponding file seems pretty OK and the links provided therrein seems to work.
Thanks for videocatcher, and hopefully for your help in sorting out the issue!
Best,
M.
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zanoi
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
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ctown
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
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zanoi
10 years ago
Interesting that you're using it as a podcast client. I'm using it as a podcast client as well but I mainly had video feeds in mind while developing it. Maybe I should change that.
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bigbrovar
11 years ago
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zanoi
11 years ago
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