Changing Auto Download to "New" results in downloading all videos
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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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Are you able to reproduce this issue? What is the url for the feed you had problems with?