Flash Video and RSS

[steven]

I have installed the a Flash Video Player on my site. It works very well. But the Flash doesn't show ip in the RSS feed.

How can I enable it?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

RSS supports something called "Enclosures", which adds MP3 files to an enclosure element.

The podcast plugin is suited to do this - remove the body insertion of code, and append such an enclosure, so that RSS readers can use their right players to download/play that file.

Video support was only later added to the plugin, and this behaviour was kept, to remove the visible player in the entry body and attach things as enclosures. However, for video files, that doesn't work.

So actually it'S a missing feature of the podcast player, to keep embedded flash videos in the RSS file. Grischa (blog.brockha.us), the maintainer, is offline for a week, so maybe after that week you can ask him again if he can implement the option to not remove flash video files. I am sure that should not be a hard task. I can't offer to do it myself, because my knowledge of the plugins interna is quite limited after the many changes.

Best regards,
Garvin

[steven]

I thought it was me (usually the case). I will ask again, but for now I can make sure there is a link. Thanks.

[steven]

I am bumping this to see if anyone has a suggestion on providing the video (flash or QT) with the RSS feed.

We can change plug-ins or go brute force if needed, but would like some direction from someone who is doing the same thing. We are getting very near the deadline and need to find a solution or move to a different platform.

Thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did you have a look at the serendipity_event_podcast.php file? There you can change the core code of the plugin, inserting your own code to add flash output or other things.

You might want to ask the user http://board.s9y.org/profile.php?mode=v ... ile&u=5043 for help on this, I believe he does contract work so that you can meet your deadline.

Regards,
Garvin