Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom

Name

mod_streaming

Synopsis

mod_streaming was designed by me (happily enough) to take care of the additional needs of anyone who wants to create a feed that points to streaming-media presentations. You will notice elements for the live events—start times, end times, and so forth. These can also split a single stream into chunks and provide associated metadata with each section.

Namespace

mod_streaming takes str: as its prefix, and http://hacks.benhammersley.com/rss/streaming/ is its identifying URI. So, its root element looks like this:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
         xmlns:str="http://hacks.benhammersley.com/rss/streaming/"
>

Elements

All the elements within mod_streaming are subelements of item except str:type, which can be a subelement of channel as well. All elements are optional.

str:type

This can take audio, video, or both as its value, and it can be a subelement of either item or channel. video implies a video, regardless of the presence of a soundtrack. both implies a mixture of video and audio items, and hence is used only within a channel description.

str:associatedApplication

The name of any special application required to play back the stream.

str:associatedApplication.version

The version number of the associated application, if applicable.

str:associatedApplication.downloadUri

The URI for downloading the associated application.

str:codec

The name of the codec in which the stream is encoded.

str:codec.version ...