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February 13, 2005
Happy is he who knows the reason why
(Vergilius, Georgica, II, 490). - “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”.
I ran mt-check.cgi on the two servers I have access to. UTS has perl 5.005_3, and iiNet have perl 5.6.1. Neither have a priority to change that.
Brandon Fuller states clearly in his documentation that MTEnclosures requires perl 5.8.1 to work.
If my system doesn’t meet the requirements, then I can’t expect the software to work.
Time to turn my aging PC into a server, as soon as I can find a way to replace the noisy cpu fan from the PII without breaking it.
Enclosures not happening
I’ve been playing with MTEnclosures some more on this server. I tried setting up the new MT on a different server, and I still can’t get it to create XML with enclosures for MP3 files. It will pick up the images if I don’t exclude them, but not any sound files. No error messages, just no MP3 or asf enclosure tags. I’m guessing the Pod people aren’t happy with Microsoft ASF audio files, even though they are much smaller? Much of my original material are captured asf webcasts and the transcoding to MP3 will bloat their size and lower thier quality. But you have to broadcast what people can hear.
I’ve searched for a tool to create the RSS file outside of MoveableType, and so far the only options are PHP4 which doesn’t work on either server, or Mac software, which I don’t have a platform for. Or commercial nonsense for Windows. All of the websites about Podcasting for windows actually have the sequence:
step1 record your audio files (entire screens worth of stuff)
step2 “somehow get an enclosure into your RSS feed”
This is less than acceptable. The Unix tutorials are just as vague, plenty on creating the audio, nothing on creating the XML files.
I need a non-Macintosh, non-commercial, non-PHP application for creating the XML files!
December 23, 2003
Photogallery automation
This looks useful, but I’m too tired to play with it just yet:
MTPhotoGallery