Alden Gannon
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| 01/03/2009 11:43 AM |
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The release notes say UVG has RSS feeds for video lists. My application has a few videos, but it is 95% audio, and we would like to create podcasts for the audio streams that can be used in itunes as well as other podcast clients.
Can your RSS feed feature be used as a podcast for audios by adding the mp3 as an RSS enclosure? Can this be made compatible with itunes?
Also, is DNN5 supported?
Thanks!
AldenG
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/03/2009 8:22 PM |
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| DNN 5 is supported, I'm not sure if ti's itunes compatible, but you can enable rss subscription in UVG_VideoList module then you can get a rss link and check to see if it's ok for itunes. |
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Pengtsen R
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/03/2009 11:33 PM |
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| Great! Does the RSS feed include the source media (mp3 or downloadable video file) in an enclosure? If so, then I can convert it to whatever podcast client I need with feedburner. |
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/04/2009 7:03 AM |
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the rss feed have a link field, which point to the url to watch this video on your DNN website, not the actual media path.
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Pengtsen R
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/14/2009 1:49 PM |
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If you make a simple change to the RSS feed, it will enable me to use it as a podcast. Just put the link to the medial in an tag like this:
is an optional sub-element of - .
It has three required attributes. url says where the enclosure is located, length says how big it is in bytes, and type says what its type is, a standard MIME type.
The url must be an http url.
With this change, I can reformat the XML to any postcasting software, including iTunes.
Or I can do this if I have access to the XML file and tokens for the link and length. |
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/14/2009 1:57 PM |
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This forum is stripping out my tags. Take a look at this link to see how to format an enclosure: http://www.msgilligan.com/rss-enclosure-bp.html
Is this possible to do? |
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/14/2009 8:36 PM |
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Alden, the format you expected, is it a custom format which is accepted by your software, or an industry standard?
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Pengtsen R
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/15/2009 6:17 PM |
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This is an industry standard for including media in an RSS feed. It is supported by numerous feed readers and podcasting applications that strip out RSS enclosures and deliver the media. For example, iTunes supports this format, and if your RSS feeds have this, the audio and videos exposed through them will appear in the iTunes store, free of charge to the user.
All you need to do is get the source media URL formatted into that enclosure tag. |
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/15/2009 9:10 PM |
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UVG is a video module, the media rss exposed by UVG is in flv format, I don't support it is accepted by Itunes since this is a audio website.
can you give me a url which have more detailed description about the rss format? |
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Pengtsen R
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/15/2009 9:26 PM |
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Maybe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure
Or here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#ltenclosuregtSubelementOfLtitemgt
It's really quite simple and a small change to the RSS feed. For an audio, you have an MP3 source file. Use the link to that source file, not the flv.
For a video file, I realize you convert to flv, but use the link to the source file, again. Flv is a great web video format, but not for downloads.
And iTunes also has video podcasts. It accepts audio and video. The video may or may not play for you based on what codecs you have installed, though. But RSS enclosures is simply a way of distributing media files. It's up to the consumer of those files to figure out how to play them.
You need these source files for a download link, anyway, right? And you already support a download link? |
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/17/2009 12:30 AM |
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| ok, this feature will be supported in UVG 3. |
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Pengtsen R
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Alden Gannon
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| 01/17/2009 11:34 AM |
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Hooray, thank you! I will be happy to test this for you. Just contact me when ready. I would also be happy to test your module for you in return for the favor.
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Pengtsen R
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| 01/17/2009 7:24 PM |
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| ok. thanks |
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Pengtsen R
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Patrick Coleman
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| 02/24/2010 11:45 AM |
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Hey Pengtsen,
Did this feature for audio podcasting RSS get included in UVG 3?
I hope so because this was exactly what I was looking for.
Is there anything specific we need to do to utilize this?
Is the RSS per user or is it per portal?
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Pengtsen R
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| 02/25/2010 10:52 PM |
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yes. then enclosure tag is not supported.
to use it, open Feed.aspx in UVG folder, change
LoadRss(False)
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LoadRss(True) |
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Pengtsen R
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