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Media RSS (MRSS)

Posted on 02. Sep, 2008 by Sajith M.R in webworld

You all are familiar with RSS feeds, and you know it’s importance in the current web world.

It has a structure like

<rss version=”2.0″ >

<channel>
<title>Your Title</title>
<link>http://www.yourdomain.com/</link>
<description>Your website details</description>
<item>

<title>First Item</title>
<link>http://www.url.com</link>
<description>Detaisl of that item</description>
<pubDate>Thursday 1st of January 1970 06:03:28 AM</pubDate>
</item>

</channel>

</rss>

But yahoo introduced new rss which includes media content and its details including video, audio, medium, bitrate, channel, duration, frame, adult, rating, keywords, category, thumbnails, url , width, height, credit , role etc

Its format sample is:

<media:content duration="180" medium="video" isDefault="true"><media:title>Art of Survival</media:title>

<media:description>Very interesting funny video</media:description>

<media:player url="http://www.amvizone.com/e/121980757950516" />

<media:thumbnail url="http://dolphinthumb.s3.amazonaws.com/121980757950516.jpg"

height="240" width="320"/>

</media:content>

We can insert this tag inside the item tag.

Using media rss you can insert embedded videos , audios, images inside an rss feed.

In normal rss we used  RSS enclosure for inserting media content. But it has a lot of limitations.  It is not sufficient for these much of informations.

<enclosure url="http://example.com/media.mp3" 

length="123456789" type="audio/mpeg" />

For more about media rss visit: http://search.yahoo.com/mrss

I implemented this media rss in http://amvizone.com/feed

Tags: content, enclosure, feed, media, mrss, rss, xml