[uf-discuss] hMedia microformat proposal

[Chris Newell]

At 16:05 08/02/2007, Brian Suda wrote:
>On 2/8/07, Chris Newell <chris.newell at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>>Colleagues,
>>
>>I would like to propose a microformat to describe media files and media streams. In particular, groups of files or streams which represent the same content but with different encoding formats.
>>
>>A suitable starting point for this could be Media RSS (http://search.yahoo.com/mrss).
>
>Firstly, we have a new mailing list for new formats:
>http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new/

Apologies.

I've also found there is a "Media Info" microformat proposal that encompasses this requirement but has greater overall scope. It looks like it could be a major task.

>secondly, i have looked at mrss in the past. (To me) It is just RSS
>with a few additional elements. I would suggest that you look into
>hAtom and use the built in semantics of HTML and use the
>rel="alternative" for the different formats, and then the <a>
>element's TYPE attribute to describe the media type. This is done
>already in XOXO->OPML with a TYPE attribute of "application/rss"

Thanks - this is all useful. However TYPE can't convey all the information needed such as bit-rate.

Chris