Media RSS (MRSS) is an
RSS
RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many di ...
extension that adds several enhancements to
RSS enclosures, and is used for
syndicating multimedia files (
audio,
video,
image
An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
) in RSS feeds. It was originally designed by
Yahoo! and the Media RSS community in 2004, but in 2009 its development has been moved to the
RSS Advisory Board.
One example of enhancements is specification of
thumbnails for each media enclosure, and the possibility to enclose multiple versions of the same content (e.g. different file formats).
The format can be used for
podcasting, which uses the RSS format as a means of delivering content to media-playing devices, as well as
Smart TVs. Media RSS allows for a much more detailed description of the content to be delivered to the subscriber than the RSS standard. The standard is also used by content publishers to feed media files into Yahoo! Video Search, which is a feature of
Yahoo! Search that allows users to search for video files.
Applications supporting MRSS
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Adobe Media Player
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Amazon Fire TV
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Cooliris
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Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a French video-sharing technology platform owned by Vivendi. North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg and Hearst Digital Media. It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD (720p) resolution video. ...
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Dokuwiki
DokuWiki is a wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language. It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more ...
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QuiteRSS
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Roku
Services supporting MRSS
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Cooliris
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The Filter
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Phanfare
Phanfare was an online subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing service. It was introduced in November 2004 by Phanfare, Inc, a company founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.
Overview
Phanfare was targeted at prosumers and seriou ...
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DeviantArt
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JW Player
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PeerTube
References
External links
Media RSS SpecificationRSS Media Discussion of metadata extensions to RSS for describing media enclosures,
FEED Validator Media RSS validation
RSS
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