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Title: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 02:31:40 am

I have a bunch of podcasts that I listen to from the Norwegian PBS NRK, and one of them has developed a problem. The error message is "File too large, probably a media file", but if I try to open it i FeedDemon (random program I found by searching for RSS podcast downloading utilities to check if that worked) I get it without any problems. This is the feed address:

http://podkast.nrk.no/program/ekko_-_et_aktuelt_samfunnsprogram.rss (http://podkast.nrk.no/program/ekko_-_et_aktuelt_samfunnsprogram.rss)

Any idea what this can be? All other feeds from the same podcast site works. They are here:

http://www.nrk.no/podkast/ (http://www.nrk.no/podkast/)

Can it be that this one feed has a slight format error, and MC is more strict about formatting then the FeedStation, or is there another explanation?

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: JimH on January 19, 2016, 02:36:13 am

Quote from: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 02:31:40 am

Can it be that this one feed has a slight format error, and MC is more strict about formatting then the FeedStation ... ?

That is a good guess.

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 02:45:53 am

Thanks for the quick answer, Jim! You must have insomnia! :) So then there's no way to fix it for me in MC, and I have to use the primitive FeedStation for that one?

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: JimH on January 19, 2016, 03:30:55 am

It's not likely we can fix it anytime soon.   You could report it to the source.

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 03:34:40 am

He-he! Did you notice I said "PBS"? ;) On their web page it says that they have an answer time of around 8 weeks, which is a year in red tape time! But I will try.

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 06:48:34 am

I found the reason: MC is interpreting the feed as a media file, not a feed, because it's almost 4 megabyte. Other readers do not have this limitation, it seems. Is this hardcoded, or is it possible to adjust that somewhere?

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: JimH on January 19, 2016, 07:04:40 am

I believe it's the Media Subtype tag that matters.

Title: Re: Problem with podcast feed
Post by: Mastiff on January 19, 2016, 07:07:52 am

Are you sure about that? Because the error MC gives me is "File too large, probably a media file". And smaller, but otherwise identical feeds are no problem. I even tested it in the Feed Validator here:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpodkast.nrk.no%2Fprogram%2Fekko_-_et_aktuelt_samfunnsprogram.rss