Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Lynch
If they don't end in .mp3, they won't work in IE, because IE ignores Content-type in favor of a heuristic "guess" as the content-type based on the data, which is just asking for disaster... And why you'd wrap an .mp3 into a Flash movie to get a podcast out of it is WAY beyond my comprehension, but

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, December 27, 2006 4:46 pm, Skip Evans wrote: > I'm doing some maintenance work on a site that > features podcasts and some of them work and some > of them don't. > > I've never worked with podcasts before, and while > I'm figuring out how they work I was wondering if > anyone knew of any go

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-28 Thread Skip Evans
I think what is going on is that somehow when the code goes to the podcast feeds to get the URLs it's getting the wrong things because they're not even media files, some times they just look like incomplete URLs. When you go to the site itself the streams work fine and result in proper media

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-27 Thread Stut
Skip Evans wrote: The URLs are all supposed to come from the live feeds so I am a bit baffled why some work and some don't. Are you sure that all the URLs in the feeds are still working? Remember that links go bad. Beyond that it's difficult to help with this specific problem without seeing

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-27 Thread Skip Evans
Yes, Brian, this is all very helpful! Thanks very much! Skip Brian Dunning wrote: Hi Skip - Best is the iTunes Podcast docs: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html Use RSS Validator to figure out exactly what's wrong with the ones you have that aren't working: http://feed

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-27 Thread Skip Evans
The site plays the podcasts with a code snippet like this: classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"; width="410" height="100" id="movie" align=""> value="audioqueue-mini.swf?urls=?>&title

Re: [PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-27 Thread Stut
Skip Evans wrote: I'm doing some maintenance work on a site that features podcasts and some of them work and some of them don't. I've never worked with podcasts before, and while I'm figuring out how they work I was wondering if anyone knew of any good tutorial sites on them and perhaps even

[PHP] PHP & podcasts

2006-12-27 Thread Skip Evans
Hey all, I'm doing some maintenance work on a site that features podcasts and some of them work and some of them don't. I've never worked with podcasts before, and while I'm figuring out how they work I was wondering if anyone knew of any good tutorial sites on them and perhaps even progra