Hi Ed,
So....
A) I didn't even know it would do video yet
I planned to look into it later, but the blackberry doesn't support the most popular ipod video format (h.264), so only some (few?) video podcasts will do video on blackberry. (With the storm being a possible exception)
B) Since apparently it does work for some already, I'll just pretend it was intentional, take all the credit, and now make the screen stay lit while they're playing
In regards to the crashing thing, I run into that all the time with mine and the normal BB media player (which I use to watch TV episodes from my Tivo). Blackberry + video seems, at least to me, to be extremely flaky at the moment. There are a few formats it'll play very well, some it will play sometimes then crash, and others it just refuses to play. I suspect the crashing has to do with the video consuming so much of the CPU that it starves RIM's watchdog timers and they force a reset of the device. (This is total conjecture on my part, I'm not sure exactly what does it, and I'm not sure I could find out).
PodTrapper itself has no internal limit on file size (that's not to say there isn't one, just that I didn't put one in
). Internally it uses the blackberry media player to actually play stuff, so I'm limited to what it's capable of doing (which, sadly, isn't much).
Most podcasts I tried when researching whether to do video (originally I wanted it in the first version) wouldn't play at all on blackberry since they were H.264 encoded, which no blackberry is capable of playing (again, storm excluded). The ipod supports it, and it's currently one of the most file size efficient ways to encode video, so a lot of video podcasts use it since it saves them the most on bandwidth (I assume). With these the blackberry will only play the sound of the podcast, and display black for the videos.
What video podcast were you able to watch? I'd be interested to try it out myself.
For the download thing, I can look at adding a generic download manager, but you should be able to accomplish the same thing via the wifi browser, (I think), or one of the other browsers (Internet browser, t-zones or equivalent, etc). There's an internet browser for all of the download types that Podtrapper uses, so whichever method you're currently using with Podtrapper should also work in that BB browser.
-Marcus
-Marcus