... Your summary of the reasons for why we allow such a thing are correct. Let me mull this over for a bit, but I tend to agree with what you are saying about...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 12, 2006 9:17 pm
... Good catch. I'll correct that. Are there any other "pervasive" mispellings that you've encountered other than that? ... We didn't specify that "now" would...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 12, 2006 7:00 pm
Reverse engineering the hash example, it appears that the digest is to be encoded in hex, as opposed to the other popular alternative, base64: ...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 12, 2006 3:20 pm
Kudos on the elements with a type attribute. Question on elements like copyright and category, and attributes like label: html or plain text? While this may...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 12, 2006 1:57 pm
First, there is a pervasive mispelling in the spec: Normal Play Time is consistenly abbreviated as NTP instead of NPT. Amusingly I was able to find an...
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 12, 2006 2:28 am
... One place where I can see Sam's comment coming from is in "Best Practices" "Expirations Using Dublin Core To the best of your ability, media that is...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 12, 2006 1:57 am
... That matches my experience. People tend to look first at examples, and then use the rest of the spec as a reference, and only when absolutely required....
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 12, 2006 1:39 am
... Good, because that is how I implemented it. Completely override it. ... It makes the specification simple. The implementation is also straight forward if...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 12, 2006 1:29 am
... Clear rules are good. The rule you are describing matches Atom's rule for elements like author (see rfc 4287 section 4.2.1). There are clear use cases for...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 12, 2006 1:02 am
... Awesome! ... We tried to reduce the level of confusion with the examples. We didn't want to make it seem like <enclosure> was required. I believe our first...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 12, 2006 12:45 am
Thanks James for answering most of Sam's questions. I'll try to answer the remaining ones in another post. ... This could get a little confusing because in my...
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 11, 2006 11:01 pm
... Sam I asked that same basic question about a month ago, I will post copy it below The <media:thumbnail> and <media:text> explicitly state that many of ...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 11, 2006 9:24 pm
I've roughed in and deployed support for media RSS 1.1.1 in the Feed Validator. At the moment, that roughly equates to merely validating that all the various...
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Robert Sayre
robertsayre2000
Mar 10, 2006 10:45 pm
... In other words, publishers should deal with it in the same manner as <content:encoded> and <description> in the same item. The standard RSS element may not...
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 10, 2006 10:13 pm
... As the author of FeedForAll Mac these feeds are good to see. Since the 2.0 version adds support for MediaRSS it was good to verify I have implemented it...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 10, 2006 10:10 pm
... Noting it in the specification is an important first step. You need to set expectations: not just for producers, but also for consumers. Given the...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 10, 2006 9:29 pm
... Robert, was this a serious suggestion or were you just trying to make a point? If trying to point out a deficiency with Media RSS, how might we improve...
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Michael Sullivan
sulleleven
Mar 10, 2006 9:04 pm
And certainly the preferred way. ... -- Sull http://vlogdir.com http://SpreadTheMedia.org...
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Joshua Kinberg
joshkinberg
Mar 10, 2006 9:01 pm
Typically MediaRSS is used in combination with enclosure elements for backward compatibility. So an <item> may contain both an <enclosure> (typically only one)...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 10, 2006 8:52 pm
... Consistency is for foolish hobgoblins. But Robert does have a point. Given the environment in which RSS extensions have traditionally been developed, one...
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Robert Sayre
robertsayre2000
Mar 10, 2006 8:05 pm
... I think, to be consistent, the validator should print a warning when Media RSS is used. "The item contains a media:content element. Be advised that clients...
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Prabhanjan G
prabhe
Mar 10, 2006 7:55 pm
Sam, Here are some of my observations that could be included in the warnings, 1. I have seen feeds in Media RSS format that do not have all the <media:content>...
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Sam Ruby
sa3ruby
Mar 10, 2006 6:52 pm
... One of my gripes (not directed specifically at Media-RSS, but more generally at all the specs in this space) is that this type of information can only be...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 10, 2006 6:17 pm
... Great!! I'm very pleased to hear this. ... First of all, this was an excellent example of how to create a Media RSS feed. I think it captures the spirit of...
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Prabhanjan G
prabhe
Mar 10, 2006 5:56 pm
Hi, I see that the <media:content> url attributes have secure links that force the download of the media files (with a download dialog box). The files once ...
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Niall Kennedy
niall18
Mar 10, 2006 3:02 pm
I see two media:content items for what appears to be the same object type: """ <media:content url="[link]" type="video/mp4" medium="video" expression="full"...
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googlerssmedia
Mar 10, 2006 12:40 pm
Google is pleased to announce an alpha release of RSS feeds on Google Video. This is our first release of RSS feeds on Google Video and we're contacting this...
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David Hall
daviddhall
Mar 7, 2006 5:48 am
Hi Folks - Sorry about the various spam related messages that have been coming through. I've modified the group settings so that New Members will be moderated...
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James Housley
jehousley
Mar 1, 2006 9:11 pm
... The Beta of FeedForAll Mac 2.0 supports the Yahoo Media RSS extension. It is a generator and not a reader, but I would be interested in looking at your...
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thinkinfella
Mar 1, 2006 8:25 pm
Hi, I'm a developer who's looking to use media rss to syndicate a potentially *large* number of videos produced by the non-profit company I work for. I...
