At 16:05 08/02/2007, Brian Suda wrote: >On 2/8/07, Chris Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Colleagues, >> >>I would like to propose a microformat to describe media files and media >>streams. In particular, groups of files or streams which represent the same >>content but with different encoding formats. >> >>A suitable starting point for this could be Media RSS >>(http://search.yahoo.com/mrss). > >Firstly, we have a new mailing list for new formats: >http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new/
Apologies. I've also found there is a "Media Info" microformat proposal that encompasses this requirement but has greater overall scope. It looks like it could be a major task. >secondly, i have looked at mrss in the past. (To me) It is just RSS >with a few additional elements. I would suggest that you look into >hAtom and use the built in semantics of HTML and use the >rel="alternative" for the different formats, and then the <a> >element's TYPE attribute to describe the media type. This is done >already in XOXO->OPML with a TYPE attribute of "application/rss" Thanks - this is all useful. However TYPE can't convey all the information needed such as bit-rate. Chris _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
