Re: Re: Are enclosures downloaded or linked?

You could use SMIL in Quicktime to do the metafile.  That's probably
worthwhile because the Real installed base is so low now.  But then
again, you could also have a Flash embed in the description and it
would work out the same way.



On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:29 AM, WWWhatsup <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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