Playlist over RSS Created Feb 25, 2009

RSS playlist support will be in 3.1.0 (late March). It's already implemented.

YouTube RSS however probably does not include direct links to the video files. It's against their usage terms to use 3rd party players to view their videos.

hi Anssi
thanks for the fast reply! really great support

indeed, there is no direct link unfortunatelly..
but anyway, the RSS feed I want to use is created by myself, so the youtube was just an example...
since i create the RSS feed, there will be a direct link

i'm looking forward to the 3.1.0 version

regards andre

PS: what kind of RSS format is going to be supported? Yahoo Media RSS? Apple podcast? any others?

Yahoo Media is there now.

Sounds great.

Will it be possible to grab a stream of photos (ie an RSS stream from Flickr) and display in Flowplayer?

If you want to show just photos Flowplayer is probably not the best solution for you. On the other hand it might just work... but haven't tested it.

when is the 3.1.0 going to be released?
I need the rss feature! :-)

hi Anssi

> RSS playlist support will be in 3.1.0 (late March). It's already implemented.

is there a way to get the 3.1.0 version for testing purposes? I need the feature with the RSS playlist
may be a svn readonly access?
i don't mind to get a BETA or even ALPHA version

Here is the current development version:
http://flowplayer.org/releases/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.0-dev.zip

The RSS playlist is configured like so:

playlist: 'myvideofeed.rss'

A sample RSS file looks like this:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
	<channel>
		<title>Example media RSS playlist</title>
		<link>http://www.eyewonder.com</link>
		<item>
			<title>new RTMP-fallschirm</title>
			<description>test</description>
			<media:credit role="author">...</media:credit>
			<media:content url="honda_accord.flv" type="application/x-fcs" />
		</item>
		<item>
			<title>new RTMP-boot</title>
            <link>http://flowplayer.org</link>
			<description>test</description>
			<media:credit role="author">...</media:credit>
			<media:content url="Extremists.flv" type="application/x-fcs" />
		</item>
		<item>
			<title lang="en">new RTMP-cliff</title>
            <link>http://flowplayer.org</link>
			<description>test</description>
			<media:credit role="author">...</media:credit>
			<media:content url="rtmp://flashmedia.mdn.newmedia.nacamar.net/tagyourplace/" type="application/x-fcs" duration="100" />
		</item>

	</channel>
</rss>

Hi Ansii

I just can not get the rss playlist work with the javascript plugin for the playlist :-(
here es my tryhttp://walotje.homelinux.org:8080/~andre/fp/test.html
it does not look like one expects ;-)

strange thing is, that an rss item like this:
<item>
<title>MP4 test marc webber</title>
<description>marc webber bla bla</description>
<media:credit role="author">ein author</media:credit>
<media:content url="/~andre/test.mp4" type="video/mp4" duration="233"/>
</item>
does not show the video, the sound ist fine, but the player does not show anything
if i change the rss item to use only local names without namespace:

<item>
<title>MP4 test marc webber</title>
<description>marc webber bla bla</description>
<credit role="author">ein author</credit>
<content url="/~andre/test.mp4" type="video/mp4" duration="233"/>
</item>

it works fine

do you have an example for the integration?

i was studying the source code of the javascript playlist plugin, and i guess it won't work this way with the RSS playlist.

i would try to modify the plugin, to work with the RSS list, but I don't see a way to access the values of the RSS items over the javascript API, needed is at least the url, but title and other fields would be great

calling the java script method "getPlaylist()" on the flowplayer returns the array of characters from the RSS URL, so not really helpfull...
is there a way to access the items of RSS however?

except for the playlist, the functionality of RSS is fine, so the list can be played, and the "next" and "previous" buttons work fine. but actually a user have to see the whole list, scroll and jump to every item directly

best regards

andre

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BTW:
my test page is either
http://walotje.homelinux.org:8080/~andre/fp/test.html
or
http://andiger.homelinux.org:8080/~andre/fp/test.html

depends on my actual location :-)

sorry guys
what is necessary, to get an answer?

however, the stable release is scheduled to 15.april
can i assume, that the javascript playlist plugin will also be available and supports RSS list?

regards

hi
now the version 3.1 is out, the rss list seams to work, but what is about the javascript plugin for the playlist?
is it going to however support the rss playlist

regards

We did not officially release the RSS support yet. It was certainly planned to be in scope but unfortunately there was not enough time to finish the JavaScript playlist integration and compatibility with all the other HTML/Js tools we have in the offering.

We did not want to delay the 3.1 release because of this. RSS will be in our next release :-) sorry

The support for configuring a rss feed to the playlist variable is there. But you will run into troubles when using that together with the html/js based playlist.

Anssi

hi,

so when is the RSS support going to be released officially?

regards
andre

right now!

http://flowplayer.org/documentation/configuration/playlists.html#rss

Perfect!!!

Very nice!

I was looking over the RSS playlist and was wondering and can't seem to figure out how to add the pre, mid and post rolls...

in the example i can see the "duration" but that i am assuming is for the parent video.

can someone show me an example on how to add a midroll ?

also can the content plugin be used in conjunction with this? can it be added via the rss?