Re: Re: Are enclosures downloaded or linked?

The problem would be that there is no way within rss to give
people multiple media choices within one feed

One just makes a different feed.

Like, in my case, 1) 'podcast' is the the heavy footprint push, while 2) 'update' is the light 
footprint pull. 

In the latter the enclosure being a metafile.

I use realmedia because one can use a metafile that still utilizes http to deliver the file.
A quicktime 'reference movie' would require a quicktime server.

But most people subscribe to the podcast.  

Recently I have been shooting more jazz, a lot of which is longform as agaonst
the 5 minute songs that comprise most of my material. I've not been including them in the podcast
because I don't want to dump an unexpected  couple of 100MB on the unsuspecting subscribers -
that would be a n example. Obviously discrimination based on size could be built into a reader, but
another solution would be if publishers could classify enclosures, e.g. essential, non-essential, short form, long-form,
opt-in etc, even via their own mini-schemas, that would control what actually gets grabbed by readers.

joly


At 11:05 2008-05-24, you wrote:
>Joly,
>I don't understand the problem. Can somebody write blog entry that 
>describes the problem with sample RSS showing the problem and the 
>solution?
>Thanks,
>
>Randy
>http://www.therssweblog.com
>
>Related: Does anybody have an update on MRSS namespace issue? Is 
>Yahoo! ignoring the problem?
>
>--- In [email protected], WWWhatsup <joly@...> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is not a bad idea.
>> 
>> I'm a video podcaster. Currently I run two seperate feeds 
>> 1) podcast: m4v for ipod
>> 2) update: text + .ram (realvideo metafile)
>> 
>> precisely to work around this problem
>> 
>> I tried using the MRSS alternative feed syntax in the early days 
>but it didn't seem to work well
>> or have much adoption so I dropped it.
>> 
>> Joly MacFie
>> http://punkcast.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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