Custom feeds - video - specs

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Hi, 

I’d like to know what are the specs that a custom rss video feed must comply with to be read by the wd tv play.

I found this short info on the knowledge base :  http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8540/ but it doesn’t help a lot. 

I try with several video feeds that can be read with feedly or google reader but, when I try to read them on the tv play, it only shows the thumbnails of the item, not the video itself. 

Are custom feeds Media RSS compliant ? 

This feature of custom RSS is key in my usage. 

Thanks for the answer,

Kr,

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Hello,

If you are using an HTML tag or directly into a website, it may not be properly detected by the RSS reader.

So make sure that you are not using a HTML-embedded content on RSS feeds.

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Hi, 

I’m still struggling with this issue. I find your answer is a bit short. I suppose that WD has specs documented like it is in this article for itunes podcasts : http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. No ? 

I guess that the tool developed by time2innov8 ( http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-SMP-Discussions/Add-rss-feeds-with-custom-video-content-working-on-WDTV-SMP/m-p/408900/highlight/true#M8876) could help me but it’s unclear how to use it.

I’d like to create my own personnal tv channel. I mean : 

  1. Grabbing interesting videos i see when crawling the web (on any platform : youtube, dailymotion,…) with the short link (like http://www.youtube.com/embed/e1tRxAv98xg))
  2. Creating a post on a wordpress blog that contains the link (the videos are not hosted on the blog) 
  3. Use the WordPress rss feed as a custom feed, readable with my WD TV Play.

That’s my try, which has html embed :  http://myverytvchannel.wordpress.com/feed/. 

It differs from the feed proposed by time2innov8 : http://rss.time2innov8.co.uk/feeds/twitvideo.xml.

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Thanks for support !