Re: Re: Are enclosures downloaded or linked?

By the way, this goes to the general issue of what the point of the
enclosure element is.  It's convenient for pre-fetching for offline
use in a portable device.  But in an online context HTML is a lot more
sensible.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Lucas Gonze <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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