Using an RSS feed
I am trying to use an RSS feed in my website but can't get it to work.
The web page is: http://totaltalkfm.com/rss.html
Please could anyone advise what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
14 Community Answers
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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You need to use mRSS for JW6 – http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/29253/basic-rss-feed
JW Player
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How do I configure mRSS in feedburner?
Thanks
JW Player
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This is the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyobShowBlogTalkRadioFeed
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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These feeds simply don’t work in the player – http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyobShowBlogTalkRadioFeed?format=rss
JW Player
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Thanks for your advice.
What RSS feeds work best?
Regards
JW Player
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It's not the traditional RSS you're probably thinking about. To the best of my limited knowledge, JW Player RSS doesn't rely on a 3rd party RSS server like Feedburner and you don't need an aggregator. The way I use RSS playlists for JW Player is much more simpler:
<ol>
<li>As far as I can tell, you must test RSS playlists online. So don't expect any results if you test locally. So make sure that...:</li>
<ul>
<li>...you have all of your files on a server like Amazon S3 or Rackspace.</li>
<li>...you keep things simple, and upload all of your files in the same directory (folder).</li>
</ul>
<li>At the minimum you should have the following files:</li>
<ul>
<li>Webpage: index.html</li>
<ul>
<li>Place a jwplayer embed here.</li>
<li>The setup is slightly different than a normal embed.</li>
</ul>
<li>Media: song1.mp3, song2.mp3, song3.mp3 or clip1.mp4, clip2.mp4, clip3.mp4</li>
<ul>
<li>Just like a normal embed, you can setup your media for browser compatibility and include ogg and webm equivalents.</li>
<li>My setup has mp3 and ogg so Chrome and Firefox users can access and play the media.</li>
</ul>
<li>Playlist: playlist.rss or playlist.xml</li>
<ul>
<li>It doesn't matter what extension you use, .rss and .xml are considered the same in this situation.</li>
<li>Don't use Media or Vanilla RSS, it's better that you use JWPlayer RSS to write playlist.rss(.xml).</li>
</ul>
</ul>
Because of _cross-domain_ issues, keep the playlist on the same domain as you're webpage is on. In fact just to be safe, keep everything on the same sub-domain as well. Don't put the playlist on http://sub.domain.com and webpage on http://www.domain.com. Even though it should be ok, it's best to keep things simple so you can use a playlist right away. After you succeed with the basics, then you can do more advanced things with CORS, iframes, proxies, etc...
If the following example existed, you would have a working JW Player RSS playlist at:
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/index.html
*Webpage: index.html*
bc.. <!-- Webpage: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JW Player Audio RSS Playlist Demo</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://p.jwpcdn.com/6/8/jwplayer.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jwPlayer">If you see this, something is wrong......</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("jwPlayer").setup ({
playlist: "playlist.rss",
width: "330",
height:"30"
})
</script>
</body>
</html>
*Playlist: playlist.rss*
bc.. <rss version="2.0" xmlns:jwplayer="http://rss.jwpcdn.com/">
<channel>
<item>
<title>Song 1</title>
<description>MP3/OGG for Chrome/Firefox </description>
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song1.mp3" />
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song1.ogg" />
</item>
<item>
<title>Song 2</title>
<description>Even though your mp3/ogg files are in the same folder, use an absolute URL</description>
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song2.mp3" />
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song2.ogg" />
</item>
<item>
<title>Song 3</title>
<description>Be consistent with URLs, http://folder.s3.amazonaws.com/folder/song3.mp3 is the same location, but you may get undesirable results</description>
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song3.mp3" />
<jwplayer:source file="http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/folder/folder/song3.ogg" />
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
_*REMEMBER*_
<ul>
<li>index.html</li>
<li>playlist.rss</li>
<li>song1.mp3</li>
<li>song1.ogg</li>
<li>song2.mp3</li>
<li>song2.ogg</li>
<li>song3.mp3</li>
<li>song3.ogg</li>
</ul>
are all in the same folder.
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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We have a sample RSS here – http://www.longtailvideo.com/sites/default/files/jw6-basic_0.rss
JW Player
User
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Thanks Ethan & Matt for your advice.
I have tried my set up using the sample RSS but still no luck.
Any further advice? Thanks
My set up is:
bc.. <head>
<script src="http://jwpsrv.com/library/iuyYTNbPEeKboSIACqoQEQ.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<p><div id="totaltalkfm"></div></p>
<script>
jwplayer("totaltalkfm").setup({
playlist: 'http://www.longtailvideo.com/sites/default/files/jw6-basic_0.rss'
});
</script>
</body>
JW Player
User
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If you have your webpage on longtailvideo.com, this would work. Where are you setting up your page? I don't have access to longtailvideo.com, so I use my server and upload my webpage there. Of course my domain: amazonaws.com is totally different than longtailvideo.com, so I get the following error:
bc.. XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.longtailvideo.com/sites/default/files/jw6-basic_0.rss. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com' is therefore not allowed access.
So I'm only gonna say this one more time, "Start by having all of your files *in one folder, in one domain.* I wish that someone had explained things to me like I did for you when I was asking the same question you're asking. The support documents for JW Player is lame, it's not really written for a beginner, it's useful as a reference for more experienced and knowledgeable ppl at best. What Ethan has given you is an example, not a solution. So my earlier post is just about as much as I could help, good luck.
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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Do you have a link Martin?
JW Player
User
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This is the link:
http://totaltalkfm.com/rss.html
Thanks
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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Can you put the playlist on your own server?
JW Player
User
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Unfortunately my playlists are on a third party server which is not the server the website is on. Is this the problem?
Ethan Feldman
JW Player Support Agent
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It might be for html5. What is primary is set to flash?
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