mini-Tutorial for LeBlanc's Podcast Suite v1.1

Toshi Miyamoto · **Joined:** Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:33 am **Posts:** 1

Hello,

We have a dedicated media server. Right now our media is in,....var/www/main/mp3...
Is it possible to change it to http://www.mysite.com/mp3 for the RSS Feed for podcasting?
I understand that it is possible to do so, for enclosed content to play on the site, but I would to this for my RSS feed, using iTunes.

Thank you very much!

Toshi

roblef · **Joined:** Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12

Awesome tutorial, thank you for posting it. I've got a Joomla 1.5 install. Will this work there? I keep getting a "already installed" error for the component, and the successful installs of the module and the plugin don't show up in my manager. Thoughts?

roblef · **Joined:** Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12

roblef wrote:

Awesome tutorial, thank you for posting it. I've got a Joomla 1.5 install. Will this work there? I keep getting a "already installed" error for the component, and the successful installs of the module and the plugin don't show up in my manager. Thoughts?

Ignore me. I just had to logout and relogin as admin. Oy.

roblef · **Joined:** Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12

roblef wrote:

Awesome tutorial, thank you for posting it. I've got a Joomla 1.5 install. Will this work there? I keep getting a "already installed" error for the component, and the successful installs of the module and the plugin don't show up in my manager. Thoughts?

Ignore me. I just had to logout and relogin as admin. Oy.

Argh. Still having same issue. The module and plugin show up fine, after a login, but not the component. I get

* JInstaller::install: There is already a file called '/Library/WebServer/Documents/ilp/administrator/components/com_podcast/' - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?
* Component Install: Could not copy PHP install file.

when trying to install the .zip file. There is no dir in the administrator/components named com_podcast/

any thoughts? i'm hating being a pita, but can't figure this one out

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:41 pm

roblef wrote:

Awesome tutorial, thank you for posting it. I've got a Joomla 1.5 install. Will this work there? I keep getting a "already installed" error for the component, and the successful installs of the module and the plugin don't show up in my manager. Thoughts?

Ignore me. I just had to logout and relogin as admin. Oy.

Argh. Still having same issue. The module and plugin show up fine, after a login, but not the component. I get

* JInstaller::install: There is already a file called '/Library/WebServer/Documents/ilp/administrator/components/com_podcast/' - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?
* Component Install: Could not copy PHP install file.

when trying to install the .zip file. There is no dir in the administrator/components named com_podcast/

any thoughts? i'm hating being a pita, but can't figure this one out

It looks like you're trying to install it on 1.5; I haven't released a 1.5 version yet.

roblef · **Joined:** Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12

jlleblanc wrote:

roblef wrote:

Awesome tutorial, thank you for posting it. I've got a Joomla 1.5 install. Will this work there? I keep getting a "already installed" error for the component, and the successful installs of the module and the plugin don't show up in my manager. Thoughts?

Ignore me. I just had to logout and relogin as admin. Oy.

Argh. Still having same issue. The module and plugin show up fine, after a login, but not the component. I get

* JInstaller::install: There is already a file called '/Library/WebServer/Documents/ilp/administrator/components/com_podcast/' - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?
* Component Install: Could not copy PHP install file.

when trying to install the .zip file. There is no dir in the administrator/components named com_podcast/

any thoughts? i'm hating being a pita, but can't figure this one out

It looks like you're trying to install it on 1.5; I haven't released a 1.5 version yet.

OK, duh. thanks for the quick response. So, maybe a wrapper and wordpress install? We're running our 'cast on wordpress right now.

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:27 pm

Some people have reported that it actually does work in 1.5 with compatibility mode on, but it looks like you're having issues with installing extensions in general or at least with the package on my site. I know that other components I wrote that were installing correctly in RC1 are now giving problems in RC2, so I will be doing more testing this weekend to see if I can't get to the bottom of it.

roblef · **Joined:** Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12

jlleblanc wrote:

Some people have reported that it actually does work in 1.5 with compatibility mode on, but it looks like you're having issues with installing extensions in general or at least with the package on my site. I know that other components I wrote that were installing correctly in RC1 are now giving problems in RC2, so I will be doing more testing this weekend to see if I can't get to the bottom of it.

Cool, thanks!

stanman1 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:06 pm **Posts:** 56

jlleblanc wrote:

Scrape up the HTML that the allvideos player is throwing out and place it in the Custom HTML option in the settings panel for the podcast component.

I'm trying to do just that but I'm confused about how to go about it, exactly... If I click "view source" the HTML that's generated will include info specific to one file. How do I get the HTML but have it be generic enough for general use w/ the PodcastSuite component?

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:59 pm

stanman1 wrote:

jlleblanc wrote:

Scrape up the HTML that the allvideos player is throwing out and place it in the Custom HTML option in the settings panel for the podcast component.

I'm trying to do just that but I'm confused about how to go about it, exactly... If I click "view source" the HTML that's generated will include info specific to one file. How do I get the HTML but have it be generic enough for general use w/ the PodcastSuite component?

Replace the specific information with the {filename} tag to add a relative reference.

justinblack · **Joined:** Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:43 pm **Posts:** 17

ksorbo wrote:

justinblack wrote:

....
Dont know if anyone is having same problem as me, if you open my audio page
http://www.bethanybaptist.co.uk/audio
it opens fine in firefox but takes ages and ages if it even opens in internet explorer.

Justin,

I opened it in IE and it doesn't seem to take that much longer than in FF

Keith

I have been doing some research into flash embedding in joomla and i think that the problem with dewplayer on internet explorer is that the modified podcast.php containing the dewplayer is not embeded as an object for ie purposes but just uses an embed command which is fine on firefox. i am not a php programmer by any means and could be wrong but if anyone can help me out i would be grateful.

i have displayed the dewplayer modified podcast.php file below for reference purposes.

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );

$_MAMBOTS->registerFunction( 'onPrepareContent', 'botPodcast' );

function botPodcast( $published, &$row, &$params, $page=0 ) {

global $database, $mosConfig_live_site;

$query = "SELECT a.id"
. "\n FROM #__components AS a"
. "\n WHERE a.option = 'com_podcast'"
;
$database->setQuery( $query );
$id = $database->loadResult();

// load syndication parameters
$component = new mosComponent( $database );
$component->load( $id );
$pParams =& new mosParameters( $component->params );

$regex = "#{enclose (.*?)}#s";
$row->text = replaceText($row->text, &$pParams, $regex);
$regex = "#{player (.*?)}#s";
$row->text = replaceText($row->text, &$pParams, $regex);

return true;
}

function replaceText($text, &$pParams, $regex)
{
global $mosConfig_live_site;

preg_match_all($regex, $text, $parameters);

$types = array (
'asf' => 'video/asf',
'asx' => 'video/asf',
'avi' => 'video/avi',
'm4a' => 'audio/x-m4a',
'm4v' => 'video/x-m4v',
'mov' => 'video/quicktime',
'mp3' => 'audio/mpeg',
'mpe' => 'video/mpeg',
'mpeg' => 'video/mpeg',
'mpg' => 'video/mpeg',
'ogg' => 'audio/ogg',
'qt' => 'video/quicktime',
'ra' => 'audio/x-realaudio',
'ram' => 'audio/x-realaudio',
'wav' => 'audio/wav',
'wax' => 'video/asf',
'wma' => 'audio/wma',
'wmv' => 'video/wmv',
'wmx' => 'video/asf',
);

foreach($parameters[1] as $par)
{
// get details from parameters
$paramarray = explode(" ", $par);

// if not an external link, add the current path

if(!eregi('http://', $paramarray[0]) && !eregi('https://', $paramarray[0]))
{
$paramarray[0] = $mosConfig_live_site . "/" . $pParams->def( 'mediapath', 'images/stories' ) . "/" . $paramarray[0];
}

$linkhandling = $pParams->def( 'linkhandling', 'links');
$linktitle = $pParams->def( 'linktitle', 'Listen Now!');
$linkcode = $pParams->def( 'linkcode', '');

// ***The original code below is commented out - the radio selector buttons for the player type in the
// ***settings file WILL NOT WORK with this mambot!

// if($linkhandling == 'links')
// {
// $link = '' . $linktitle . '';
// }
// else if($linkhandling == 'html')
// {
// $link = preg_replace('/\{filename\}/', $paramarray[0], $linkcode);
// }
// else if($linkhandling == 'player')
// {
// $width = $pParams->def( 'playerwidth', 150);
// $height = $pParams->def( 'playerheight', 50);
// $link .= '

';
// $link .= '' . "\n";
// $link . '' . "\n";

//*** Determine the file extension - this version of the bot ONLY checks for "mp3" and "mov" (lowercase)

$ext = substr($paramarray[0], strlen($paramarray[0]) - 3);

//*** If the extension is for an mp3 file, use the Dewplayer flash audio player

if($ext == 'mp3')
{

$link .= '

';
$link .='';
$link . '' . "\n";

}

//*** If the extension is "mov" for a QuickTime video, use the QuickTime player

else if($ext == 'mov')
{
// $ext = substr($paramarray[0], strlen($paramarray[0]) - 3);

$width = $pParams->def( 'playerwidth', 320);
$height = $pParams->def( 'playerheight', 240);

$link = '

';

}

// replace link
$text = preg_replace( "#{enclose ". preg_quote($par) ."}#s", $link, $text );
}

return $text;

}

?>

Regards in advance
Justin

stanman1 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:06 pm **Posts:** 56

jlleblanc wrote:

stanman1 wrote:

jlleblanc wrote:

Scrape up the HTML that the allvideos player is throwing out and place it in the Custom HTML option in the settings panel for the podcast component.

I'm trying to do just that but I'm confused about how to go about it, exactly... If I click "view source" the HTML that's generated will include info specific to one file. How do I get the HTML but have it be generic enough for general use w/ the PodcastSuite component?

Replace the specific information with the {filename} tag to add a relative reference.

OK; I don't mean to be dense, but I'm still not clear on exactly how I'd do that...

Here's the pasted code from another page on which I have embedded an .flv file using the AllVideos plugin:

Is THAT the HTML I would use in the Enclosure Code field of the Settings screen? And if so, how would I need to tweak it so it would work properly? I've GOT to get this podcasting to work (audio AND video) and I just can't get over this hump w/out more help.

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:26 pm

stanman1 wrote:

jlleblanc wrote:

stanman1 wrote:

jlleblanc wrote:

Scrape up the HTML that the allvideos player is throwing out and place it in the Custom HTML option in the settings panel for the podcast component.

I'm trying to do just that but I'm confused about how to go about it, exactly... If I click "view source" the HTML that's generated will include info specific to one file. How do I get the HTML but have it be generic enough for general use w/ the PodcastSuite component?

Replace the specific information with the {filename} tag to add a relative reference.

OK; I don't mean to be dense, but I'm still not clear on exactly how I'd do that...

Here's the pasted code from another page on which I have embedded an .flv file using the AllVideos plugin:

Is THAT the HTML I would use in the Enclosure Code field of the Settings screen? And if so, how would I need to tweak it so it would work properly? I've GOT to get this podcasting to work (audio AND video) and I just can't get over this hump w/out more help.

Yes, that's the HTML. Replace http://sandbox.webtest.meridianschools. ... g_2007.flv with {filename}. That should do it.

J. R. Miller · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:09 pm

I am using Garage Band in Max OS X 10.4. There seems to be a problem because the Podcast Suite will not recognize mp3 or m4a formats. The podcast will not display the falsh player nor will iTunes recognize that a new podcast has been uploaded. Does anyone know of any fixes?

Please note the latest entries here vs. the earlier ones at the bottom
http://www.ortingreunion.com/content/bl ... ory/39/60/

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:30 pm

J. R. Miller wrote:

I am using Garage Band in Max OS X 10.4. There seems to be a problem because the Podcast Suite will not recognize mp3 or m4a formats. The podcast will not display the falsh player nor will iTunes recognize that a new podcast has been uploaded. Does anyone know of any fixes?

Please note the latest entries here vs. the earlier ones at the bottom
http://www.ortingreunion.com/content/bl ... ory/39/60/

It recognizes MP3 files on my end. As far as M4A goes, there is no Flash player that I know of that plays them, but Quicktime should.

J. R. Miller · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:22 am

Hi Joseph, if you look at my link, it recognizes all my older mp3 files, but my newest file which was created on my Mac using Garageband is not getting recognized. Notice how the last two entires do not have a FlashPlayer as do the other ones? My podcast feed through itunes will also not recognize that a new item has been added. Any ideas?

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:58 am

J. R. Miller wrote:

Hi Joseph, if you look at my link, it recognizes all my older mp3 files, but my newest file which was created on my Mac using Garageband is not getting recognized. Notice how the last two entires do not have a FlashPlayer as do the other ones? My podcast feed through itunes will also not recognize that a new item has been added. Any ideas?

Are the {enclose ... } tags in these articles?

J. R. Miller · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:11 am

yes, they are there just the same as in the previous dozen or so items I published.

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:19 am

J. R. Miller wrote:

yes, they are there just the same as in the previous dozen or so items I published.

I don't know what's happening then.

J. R. Miller · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:29 am

okay, I got it... your last question made me think about the enclosure tag. I misnamed the files and they had spaces in them. I renamed them with no spaces and now they podcast correctly. I also see that the m43 format used by Mac is not compatable with your mod. It still goes to the pod-cast, but it will not show up with the option to listen on my site.

Thanks for your help.

ljk · **Posted:** Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:10 pm

Hello,

I just installed Podcast Suite 1.1, component, module and mambot on a Joomla 1.0.11 site.
Published the mambot.
Made sure that the cache permissions were set to 777.
Uploaded a mp3 file.
Went into Podcast > Manage Clips and clicked on the mp3 file and saved it.
No podrss20.xml file was created in the cache folder, so I created a blank one, uploaded it and changed its permissions to 777.
I then tried editing the mp3 content item and saving it, tried unpublishing the content item, tried editing the clip file for it and saving it. But still the podrss.xml file is empty.

The content item has in the intro section: {enclose mpthreetest.mp3} and nothing else.

I don't know what else to try to get the .xml file setup. Does anyone have any ideas?

Site is: http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php/con ... 9/137/255/
Pod Audio 2 is the one that has been setup using PodSuite (http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php/con ... w/169/255/)

Thanks for any help.

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:47 pm

ljk wrote:

Hello,

I just installed Podcast Suite 1.1, component, module and mambot on a Joomla 1.0.11 site.
Published the mambot.
Made sure that the cache permissions were set to 777.
Uploaded a mp3 file.
Went into Podcast > Manage Clips and clicked on the mp3 file and saved it.
No podrss20.xml file was created in the cache folder, so I created a blank one, uploaded it and changed its permissions to 777.
I then tried editing the mp3 content item and saving it, tried unpublishing the content item, tried editing the clip file for it and saving it. But still the podrss.xml file is empty.

The content item has in the intro section: {enclose mpthreetest.mp3} and nothing else.

I don't know what else to try to get the .xml file setup. Does anyone have any ideas?

Site is: http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php/con ... 9/137/255/
Pod Audio 2 is the one that has been setup using PodSuite (http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php/con ... w/169/255/)

Thanks for any help.

This is what I'm seeing at http://cottage.keashly.ca/cache/podrss20.xml:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">
    <channel>
        <title>Site Podcast</title>
        <link>http://cottage.keashly.ca</link>
        <description>The regular podcast</description>
        <lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:40 +0100</lastBuildDate>
        <generator>FeedCreator 1.7.2</generator>

        <copyright>(c) 2007</copyright>
        <itunes:image href="http://cottage.keashly.ca/media/" />        <image>
                <link>http://cottage.keashly.ca</link>
                <url>http://cottage.keashly.ca/media/</url>
                <title>Site Podcast</title>
                <description>

The regular podcast
</description>
        </image>
        <item>
            <enclosure url="http://cottage.keashly.ca/media/video.flv" length="282797" type="audio/mpeg" />
            <title>Video Test-2</title>
            <link>http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=253</link>

            <description>
</description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:09:58 +0100</pubDate>
            <itunes:summary>
</itunes:summary>
        </item>
        <item>
            <enclosure url="http://cottage.keashly.ca/media/mpthreetest.mp3" length="198658" type="audio/mpeg" />
            <title>Pod Audio 2</title>

            <link>http://cottage.keashly.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=253</link>
            <description>
</description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:09:47 +0100</pubDate>
            <itunes:subtitle>Test video-</itunes:subtitle>
            <itunes:summary>

</itunes:summary>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

floatingworld · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:35 am

Thanks for this! For the podcats module that shows the "full feed" link and the "podcast" graphic there are to links:

pcast://devsite.watercheck.biz/index2.p ... &no_html=1
and
http://devsite.watercheck.biz/index2.ph ... &no_html=1

What is the difference? They both seem to create a list of content items that contain podcasts...

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:44 pm

floatingworld wrote:

Thanks for this! For the podcats module that shows the "full feed" link and the "podcast" graphic there are to links:

pcast://devsite.watercheck.biz/index2.p ... &no_html=1
and
http://devsite.watercheck.biz/index2.ph ... &no_html=1

What is the difference? They both seem to create a list of content items that contain podcasts...

pcast:// will automatically pull up the feed in iTunes. Otherwise, people will usually have to cut and paste the http:// link.

muaz · **Joined:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:33 pm **Posts:** 43

Hello everyone,

I just installed podcast and it looks really nice.

However, I do have some problem with the mp3 file. When I play it, it plays faster. An example can be seen on this page: http://fr.hirondellenews.com/content/view/419/446/

I will appreciate if anyone can help me correct this problem.

Regards

jlleblanc · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:49 pm

muaz wrote:

Hello everyone,

I just installed podcast and it looks really nice.

However, I do have some problem with the mp3 file. When I play it, it plays faster. An example can be seen on this page: http://fr.hirondellenews.com/content/view/419/446/

I will appreciate if anyone can help me correct this problem.

Regards

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg915440

jeremywilken · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:37 am

I have been working with 1.5 RC2&3, and can't get it to install. I have successfully installed and tested it with 1.0.13, so I have an idea how its set up. Has anyone gotten it to install with RC2 or RC3? Is there a way to install it and bypass the admin interface which claims I don't enter a package directory?

I'm actually testing on two different servers with two RC3 installs, one says I haven't inputed a valid package directory, the other says J:Folder::create Could not create folder..

muaz · **Joined:** Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:33 pm **Posts:** 43

jlleblanc wrote:

Hello everyone,

I just installed podcast and it looks really nice.

However, I do have some problem with the mp3 file. When I play it, it plays faster. An example can be seen on this page: http://fr.hirondellenews.com/content/view/419/446/

I will appreciate if anyone can help me correct this problem.

Regards

Hello,

Thanks a lot jlleblanc for your reply. I am using cool edit pro. I have been trying for few days now to find out how to deactivate the Variable Bit Rate encoding but I cannot find my way.

Does anyone know how to correct this problem with cool edit pro?

Thanks

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg915440

jeremywilken · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:37 pm

CBR (Constant Bit Ratehttp://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/cbr.cfm) is controlled through the exporting of your video or audio. How you do that or whatever you use isn't necessarily the issue as long as it allows you use a codec that allows you to change the settings for your exported file. For video you have to make sure that the original video (the video before converted to flash) is also a constant rate, and with audio you need to export the file using a codec that has a option to change to CBR. LAME is the name of one such codec that I use with Audacity (both free, Lame is mp3 codec, Audacity is audio editor)

Abishai · **Joined:** Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:45 am **Posts:** 1

Hey Joseph thanks for the great mod.

When you get a chance can you let me know what I can check to see why in IE, when I click on the "Full Feed" link it displays what looks like the raw feed in the browser instead of displaying it nicely like in FireFox. I read an earlier post that was opposite to my situation where IE looked good while FF showed only code.

Otherwise the podcasts are getting to iTunes and seem to be working fine.

Here's the site:
http://calvarychapelwestoahu.org/index.php

Thanks in advance for your help.

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