This is an informal overview by the author(s), and not the product of a review by any formal W3C group. Comments are welcome to karl@w3.org (strongly encouraged: cc'ing www-archive@w3.org if you'd like them publically archived).
Or How to deal with Multimedia in RSS 2.0.
Recently, both Yahoo! (and collaborators) and Apple have proposed formats to deal with RSS Enclosures.
| Company | Yahoo | Apple |
|---|---|---|
| namespace | yes (often media) | yes (often itunes) |
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| category | category takes two attributes scheme and label. The scheme helps to specify the URI of the schema | Only the category of iTunes can be used. You can't use another schema. No attributes. |
| adult | adult with true or false | explicit with yes or no |
| title | title | subtitle |
| description | summary | text |
| attribution | credit. It has an attribute role very similar to XHTML 2 | author |
| length | an attribute of the content element | duration |
| keywords | keywords | |
| owner | name and email of the owner of the podcast (could be FOAF) | |
| artwork | thumbnail | image |
| protection | block | |
| copyright | they seem to encourage the use of CreativeCommons | copyright |
| Website | link | |
| Grouping | group | |
| content | content. it helps to define the physical nature of content and give parameters to control it. (video, mp3, etc.) | Apple doesn't propose anything, because it's only for MP3? |
| hash | hash. the hash of the media file | |