<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Pierre Ynard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linkfanel@yahoo.fr">linkfanel@yahoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>How does the Podcast SD work, and what are those add/remove entry<br>
points?</blockquote></div><br>Podcasts are RSS feeds of video/audio. So we have a Podcast SD module, which first reads podcast feed URLs saved in the the "podcast-url" config variable (these are what I called "entry points"), and lists via SD interface input items with those URLs plus the input item option "demux=podcast".<br>
Then it automatically runs each of the listed input items, which in turn get demuxed by the Podcast demuxer module, which obtains singular audio/video URLs through RSS protocol from the RSS feed URL, and adds input items with those new URLs as sub items of feed items.<br>
<br>As much as I gathered, the principle of (all?) SD modules is to output items which a corresponding demux/playlist/XXX module will demux to get further subitems. In my opinion, those two functionalities should be merged into one coherent ABI, so services discovery browsing should be separate from input item paradigm.<br>