[Freevo-devel] Re: podcasting

[Martijn V. <mvo...@gm...>]

On 7/22/05, Aleksey Sudakov <za...@ob...> wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> Did anybody give a thought to implementing a plug-in to support
> podcasting and/or video bloging? I am debating if I should try to
> implement OPML browser as a root-level plugin that would launch
> audio/video/image viewer based on what type of enclosure RSS has or has
> separate OPML in either video/audio and pictures.

Hi,
Good idea, i'm thinking about that too.
feedparser (http://feedparser.org/) does a good job parsing feeds.
Needed something new(independent of the current mediadb) to
test/enhance my mediadb.

> On another thought it would be nice to be able to see HTML feeds as
> well. Any pointers to some plugin that display HTML or plain text?

I would use plain text.
There is a multiline(non scrolling) text-widget available.
Eventually you would have to write a scrolling widget .

Martijn.