News & Updates
October 1, 2009
Posted DirCastM3U as a Add-On for DirCaster users, see it on the Downloads page!
February 10, 2009
Posted PHPstream as an Add-On for DirCaster users, see it on the Downloads page!
February 09, 2009
Added logic to increase or decrease web server time by 1 hour. Can be used in case of bad web server times due to annual time shifts.
February 14, 2008
A new release for Valentine's Day! Enjoy! Fixed a problem displaying comments properly.
January 30, 2008
We have "re-opened" the Discussion Forum... here's hoping that we don't have as much problem with spam as before!
January 22, 2008
Don't forget to set up a .htaccess file on Apache for your DirCaster directory! We have added this info in the ReadMe.1st file:
...be sure to set up an .htaccess file in the directory (that is a
file that controls Apache, you can infomation on it by Googling
"htaccess")
The contents of the .htaccess should be:
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DirectoryIndex dircaster.php
php_value memory_limit 16M
php_flag register_globals 1
AddType audio/x-m4a m4a M4A
AddType video/mp4 mp4 MP4
AddType video/x-m4v m4v M4V
AddType audio/mpeg mp3 MP3
AddType audio/playlist m3u M3U
AddType audio/x-scpls pls PLS
AddType application/x-ogg ogg OGG
AddType audio/wav wav WAV
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(Without the dashed lines) Alternatively, you can add these Mime
types to your web servers mime.types file.
November 13, 2007
ChangeLog from this release:
. Jared Benedict - Item duration code modified to handle media
files with duration over 60 minutes. Henry made code more modular.
Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release.
August 20, 2007
ChangeLog from this release:
. added feature to allow setting enclosurePrefix variable to allow
Stats processing for external providers like TechPodcasts and Blubrry
from Raw Voice Media.
Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release.
April 9, 2007
ChangeLog from this release:
. added in a guid change to allow for multiple files that had the
same file date in the feed, and identifies them as "false" for
permalinks
Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release.
April 4, 2007ChangeLog from this release:
. added a test so that the ?ft=[filetype] would display ONLY files
that are listed in the "sftypes" list
Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release.
March 29, 2007
Here's the ChangeLog from this release:
. Revised item GUID tag to be more unique (user forum request)
. Added channel keyword tag (user forum request)
. Aligned XML tag indent. Looks better when reviewing raw XML
. Added parameter to allow the selection of a single file type
dircaster.php?ft=[filetype]
Example:
1. The default is no change webroot.../dircaster.php
uses software define file types "(.mp3 .m4a .m4b .asf .wma .avi .mov
.mp4)"
2. Select all occurrences of a single file type in the directory
overrides file types in 1 above webroot...dircaster.php?ft=mp4
or
webroot.../dircaster.php?ft=mp3
(no periods in front of file type)
Any one of the file types in 1 above can be used.
This allows the feed to store multiple types in one directory, and
allows the subscriber to select only one type
Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release.
January 11, 2007
Here's the ChangeLog from this release:
ChangeLog for DirCaster Version 0.8a
Added logic to obtain <item> overrides from a text file. (See
the override.1st file for details.)
2007-01-09 Henry L. Ratliff
Here's the ReadMe.1st from
this release.
January 3, 2007
Here's the ChangeLog from this release:
ChangeLog for DirCaster Version 0.7b
Fixed the same problem as "pubDate" for "LastBuildDate" in iTunes
Feed
2007-01-03 Dr. Bill Bailey
Here's the ReadMe.1st from
this release.
December 25, 2006
ChangeLog for Version 0.7a
December 25, 2006 - H. L. Ratliff
. Fixed several PHP Notice errors issued when error level set to ALL
. Patched occasion where single digit day in pubdate sometimes
displayed for example ' 1' instead of ' 01'. new function fixDat()
. Substituted RSS title tag value with file name when id3 title
value
is empty. stripType() drops the file extension
. Corrected raw '&' in RSS title tag (use '&' instead)
. Fixed variable name error which caused, the logic to produce only
a set number of feeds, not to work. Controlled by $maxFeeds.
Great work Henry! Here's the ReadMe.1st from this release. Everyone have fun with this great new version!
December 21, 2006
Since I use the DirCaster Software to podcast all three of my current podcasts, and I know that there are a lot of folks interested in podcasting, and since I run my own web hosting company: Dr. Bill Bailey.NET, I thought I would "take up" the challenge of maintaining the software, and championing it's further development. I have asked Ryan King via his web site if this is OK, and if he gets back to me with a problem with this endeavor, I will gladly take it down.
I am EXTREMELY grateful to Ryan for initially developing this project and I know it is hard to "juggle" all the things that come up in life to continue to support the effort of maintaining an Open Source project. This is my first attempt, and I ask you to be kind and withhold judgment on my efforts until I can get the "bugs" out. Check out the "ReadMe.1st" file contained in the V0.6a Zip archive, or available HERE, for more information on the V0.6a release.
Contact Dr. Bill at: Dr. Bill [AT] DirCaster.org
(Please replace the "[AT]" with an "@" sign. This helps prevent spam to our e-mail address... thanks!)