Re: [Hampshire] Video Podcasts

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Video Podcasts
On Saturday 02 August 2008 21:34:41 Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Saturday 02 August 2008 21:28:06 Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:14:28PM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> > > I'll try the old version, but a command line utility would still
> > > be nice, otherwise I'll probably write my own.
> >
> > I use hpodder for audio podcasts and miro for video podcasts.
> >
> > Not sure where you get the idea that they're not linux friendly. If I go
> > to their site http://getmiro.com/ and click the green download button it
> > lists all the Linux options before the Windows one.
>
> Lists? If I click the big green download button, it asks me where I
> want to save a Windows .exe - I don't even get the choice of
> Linux downloads. The latter are only listed from the download menu
> at the top (not hard to get to, but the big green Download button
> is the obvious first choice).


Some investigation seems to show that it's doing some dodgy
browser identification. From Konqueror, it assumes I'm running
MS Windows and only gives me the Windows option. If I tell
Konqueror to pretend to be Firefox, then it takes me to the
list of Linux downloads.


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