MediaRSS
by maxan (community developer)popularity rank: 32
description: A RSS app designed to show pictures (it might work for video... I haven't tried it). The RSS must be compliant with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_RSS|Yahoo Media RSS(MRSS)]]. I might have it support other formats. Request it and see where it goes. Current sites support compliant MRSS formats are: Framechannel: http://rss.framechannel.com/user=<user name>/pin=<pin> Google Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/<user name>?kind=photo&imgmax=800&max-results=5&alt=rss Chumby Widgets: http://www.chumby.com/rss/recentwidgets Note: Google Picasa's link got a bit hairy due to their funny crossDomain... good thing they have a workaround. Todo: finger swipe to forward/backward
preview of 'MediaRSS' app
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Comments
maxan
– December 24 2011
I took the sample RSS widget and just changed the resize so it only displays the photo... I might've accidentally added value by enhancing the parsing algorithm and adding a double-buffering scheme, along with some value subtracting defects. This is the link to the original source. http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php/Sample_RSS_Widget These are my enhancements to it. I guess I would prefer it to be copyleft with GPLv3 just so I can see how you guys improve the code. Good luck! https://sites.google.com/site/filletoffiles/home/mediaRss.fla https://sites.google.com/site/filletoffiles/home/mediaRssConfig.fla
maxan
– December 09 2011
I'm surprised people still use this. I'll throw the source code (GPLv3) somewhere and ask you to feed binary & source back for me to upload onto chumby so it doesn't spawn a lot of me-too.
nzimmer911
– December 09 2011
FIrst off, great work! Without this app being available I wouldn't have bought a Chumby. Thanks for the time and effort to make it. As a side note, this also works for DeviantArt's feeds, ie: http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=boost%3Apopular+in%3Adigitalart%2Fphotomanip+max_age%3A168h&type=deviation&offset=0 Is it possible to share the code, or make a tweak to toggle all the text? My second request is for an option for how long to display the image. That would be awesome!
maxan
– June 27 2011
framechannel discontinued their free service. Keep an eye out for FrameAlbum.com. If their service isn't up to par, maybe I'll take a run at writing a replacement for framechannel.com. If you can provide a link to a phanfare rss, then I might be able to take a quick whack at it. Otherwise, I don't really feel like signing up for a free 2 week trial unless they're going to pay me, and try to go through the hassle of how to generate a RSS from their website.. ugh.
stmind
– June 27 2011
Sorry, the HTML parser ate my comment. Phanfare uses a "media:group" element to wrap items, and each item has multiple "media:content" elements to link to small, medium, and large versions.
stmind
– June 27 2011
Hi Maxam, Nice widget. Just a note that it doesn't seem to support Phanfare's RSS. I'm taking a wild guess that it's because Phanfare uses a element to contain multiple sizes of the content, like: (small) (med) (large)
maxan
– June 06 2011
Aye. Add it to the todo list... laf. If GUI gurus out there want the code to it, let me know.
lvince
– June 03 2011
Frame channel works, so I'm glad because now I have it on two devices :-). Can you remove the text though? It's actually quite annoying. If I want time and date, I'll minimize the display.
maxan
– April 13 2011
Hmm. trying to create an algorithm that'll parse the different formats, but seems like everybody has their own little tweaks to stuff. I might have to implement some site/algorithm lookup table, and have a generic best guess fall-back algorithm.
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