Hello,
thanks for your module!
As successive podcasts can produce immense traffic it is advisible hosting podcasts in the cloud.
At present it produces an error, when rss-feed contains no filefield or a node exists without a file in that field.
I would like using ffpc with having a cck-link-field, linking a node to a different source anywhere.
How do you think about it?
Thanks in advance,
Ralf

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mfer commented
Status: Active » Postponed

It would be great to have files on remote servers (like Amazon S3). But, this is very targeted at filefield which isn't capable of doing the remote data in D6. Using link field won't work either. For this to work GetID3 needs to be able to get at the file which requires it to download and cache locally to get the ID3 info needed.

In Drupal 7 there is the concept of stream wrappers. It would be more likely to work with stream wrappers.

So, this is postponed until the D7 version of the module. If someone wants to write a patch that handles the caching and other stuff needed they are more than welcome. I'm just not going to do it until D7.

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mfer commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev

This would be awesome and may not happen in D6.

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mstrelan commented

There is also a module called Filefield Sources (http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources) which extends a filefield to use a URL instead. I believe the module downloads the file from the URL and serves it up. This might be helpful to know, however doesn't resolve the issue of bandwidth usage from your server.

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mfer commented

@mstrelan That is what filefield_sources does. What needs to be tested is stream wrappers (being used in D7 core).