dropin

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Author

Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>

Date

2025-02-10 03:01

README: add podcasts

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@@ -28,3 +28,23 @@ only Dropout-specific code is the authentication.
   28    28 pip install -r requirements.txt
   29    29 DROPOUT_EMAIL='me@example.com' DROPOUT_PASSWORD='abc123' python3 dropin.py
   30    30 ```
   -1    31 
   -1    32 ## Podcasts
   -1    33 
   -1    34 I personally would love to get some shows as podcasts. To some degree I managed
   -1    35 to do that by providing RSS feeds. The feeds do not link directly to Vimeo
   -1    36 (because the Vimeo links expire quickly), but instead link to dropin which
   -1    37 redirects to a currently valid source. However, I was not yet able to provide
   -1    38 links to audio files:
   -1    39 
   -1    40 -   For some shows, separate "audio only" versions exist. These are still video
   -1    41     files with a freeze frame, which saves a lot of bandwidth. However, these
   -1    42     are only available for few shows and many podcast clients cannot play video
   -1    43     files.
   -1    44 -   The HLS and MPEG-DASH sources contain audio streams. However, these
   -1    45     consists of many small segments that would need to be stitched together. I
   -1    46     do not know of any podcast clients that support this.
   -1    47 -   It would be possible to do some processing on the server (either download a
   -1    48     video and extract the audio, or stitch together an audio stream from HLS or
   -1    49     MPEG-DASH). But that would require a lot of ressources on the server, which
   -1    50     I would like to avoid.