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miro package

Changing Auto Download to "New" results in downloading all videos

Bug #580703 reported by brianclements
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: miro

Ubuntu Lucid x86_64 on 2.6.32-21-generic using Miro 3.0.1

This is a bit of a feature request I guess and I'm not sure where to post this but will happily move it where it's appropriate if given instruction.

When I change the Auto Download to "New" after a period of being "Off" and gathering videos in the stream, Miro wants to download the entire list of videos in a behavior similar to Auto Download "All." Now what it's actually doing is downloading videos from the last time I actually viewed a file (or if I never have, download all files from the beginning), but after months of not watching anything in the stream, I just wanted to start downloading files from this point in time forward, not all the ones that I "missed." Should there be a threshold of time in the preferences that allows for that behavior to change from the "Download everything I missed" behavior to "Skip what I missed and download everything new from this point forward" behavior?

Steps to reproduce:
1)Subscribe to feed with Auto Download = Off
2)Loose interest in that feed and don't watch anything in there for a while
3)Wait until you get ~100 entries, regain interest, and want to watch the feed again from this point forward
4)Change Auto Download = New in said feed
5)Play download cancellation whack-a-mole for the entire list of 100 when all you wanted was that first video

Expected behavior:
1-4 Same as above
5)Setting in preferences sees that the number of "unwatched" downloads exceeds users threshold and nothing downloads until a new video pops up on the feed in the future.
6)For that one video the user wants to watch, he/she just clicks to download it

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brianclements (brianclements)
description: updated
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Will Guaraldi Kahn-Greene (willkahngreene) wrote :

Are you able to reproduce this issue? What is the url for the feed you had problems with?

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brianclements (brianclements) wrote :

Any and all my feeds respond this way and yes it is reproducible with all of them. It's not really a bug in that it's unexpected behavior, but more behavior that is correct but should be changed to something else. The core of what I'm talking about is the addition of a setting threshold that: 1) when the number of unwatched videos exceeds it, results in Miro not downloading all "new" videos in the feed but instead only downloads new videos that come up in the feed in the future and 2) when the number of unwatched videos is below the threshold, results in Miro doing what it does now and try to download all videos in the feed that have not been watched/downloaded yet.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Brian - yeah sounds like a reasonable idea, certainly would improve things in that situation. I'd recommend that you go to upstream with this issue though, as we don't get that far into development of miro in Ubuntu. Once you file the bug upstream, if you'd like you can also link to the upstream bug report from here using the 'Also affects project' link, which can help us identify when a fix is available that we can pull down to the distro.

Changed in miro (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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