Video Playback Support

[foxxtrot]

Right now, if you point Podax as a video-file, it plays it exactly like an audio file. This is something I'm likely going to be adding, but am filing this issue to create a place for discussion for this feature (and make sure that my vision for this feature is in-line with thasmin). I will be basing my work on the newui branch.

Features that I want to see:

• If playing video, stop playing when leaving the App (this should be optional if you don't care about watching the video, but still want the audio)
• Full-screen playback
• Filtering Queue by Video or Audio (I'm not even sure a 'mixed' queue would be useful for the way I'd consume the content).

[thasmin]

The feature is OK with me in that I think it's a good feature for Podax. Podax plays podcasts and there are video podcasts. The only problem is that I use Podax to listen to podcasts in the car and so I've never subscribed to a video podcast. Because I work on Podax in spare time, a lot of my testing is done through usage and so I may not notice if something breaks video podcasts. On the positive side, I'll be a good tester to see if the design works. :)

Yes, definitely use the newui branch. I'm going to merge this into master and release Podax 4.0 once my vacation is finished and I fix the outstanding bugs.

I agree that a mixed video / audio queue doesn't make sense. I try to get Podax to work for specific use cases at the expense of flexibility. For example, a great feature for the future would be nice if it could detect that I'm connected to my car through Bluetooth, which does not have a video output, and uses the audio queue.

[thasmin]

I've refactored a bunch of code. Feel free to email me if you have trouble merging / rebasing.

[felipesanches]

Is there anybody working on it? My girlfriend is looking for a podcatcher for android and we've tryied Podax because it is free as in freedom. As a free software activist I am not willing to support her in using a proprietary tool. Are you aware of any free as in freedom podcast client for android that is able to play video files?

I'm a developer too, so I would put my hands in code if nobody else is already working on it. In this case, what would be the first step to do it? Is there documentation anywhere regarding the API of the media player module used by Podax ?

happy hacking! Felipe Sanches

[thasmin]

I am not planning on adding this feature. If you want to, I'll support you however I can.

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[foxxtrot]

@felipesanches, I haven't been working on this, though I still would like to. If you want to run with the feature, please do.

[jldugger]

"The only problem is that I use Podax to listen to podcasts in the car and so I've never subscribed to a video podcast. "

I my video podcasts, but not while driving =). Perhaps the queue can be configurable to include video or not.