(from
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/01/how_can_we_best.html)
We're just a few weeks into 2006 and already it's clear to most that one
of this year's hot topics will be the maturation of services that
deliver video over IP. Google's recent announcement at CES about their
Google Video service is surely just the first of many important
announcements for this year.
2006 is of course also the year the BBC will be launching the
MyBBCPlayer.
Meanwhile, in the backstage broom-cupboard, we've been thinking about
how we can best serve you XML feeds of BBC video content (well, feeds
that link to and describe BBC video content, to be pedantic).
BBC News already offers a set of RSS feeds for their BBC New Player
video service. However, these feeds contain links to pages that contain
an embedded player, rather than links to the media assets themselves.
Whilst this makes sense as a consumer-orientated service, clearly this
does not help backstage developers who want to develop new propositions
directly around these video items.
So we'd like to know how we can serve you developer-friendly XML feeds
about our video. We're going to create some developer feeds which
contain links directly to the media, but there are a number of format
options floating about and we want to find out which option would work
best for the backstage community.
Are you a big fan of the Yahoo! sponsored Media RSS? Or maybe you would
just prefer simple enclosure tags? Are there any other options we have
missed?
At the moment, I'm personally persuaded by MediaRSS. In most instances,
for each of our videos we need to reflect:
* Multiple encoding formats
* Multiple encoding bit-rates
* Whether they are available to all or just UK-based IP's
MediaRSS allows you to do all of that. But what I'd like to know is how
easy it is for you to handle? Is there a MediaRSS parser available for
your favourite language?
What if we offered enclosures instead? How would you like to see the
above information represented within enclosure tagged RSS2.0 feeds?
So, please let me know what your thoughts are on the above - either by
leaving your comment below or posting an email to the
backstage.bbc.co.uk mailing list (do subscribe if you havn't already)!
Many thanks
Ben
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