Backend: Media-RSS support

[azmeuk]

Alongside with its own namespace, Youtube uses the Media-RSS specification to provide metadata about the videos, like the thumbnail, the description, the number of views etc. Peertube also use Media-RSS for their feeds.

Youtube feeds are well displayed, but Peertube ones are not:

How a Youtube feed is displayed:

How a Peertube feed is displayed:

It would be amazing if peertube feeds were displayed as nicely as youtube ones are!

Éloi

[samuelclay]

I'd like to implement this but do you have an example of an RSS feed url that I can test with? Also, what exactly am I looking for in the feed to signal that it should be treated like the YouTube feed.

[azmeuk]

Here is a youtube feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Here is a Peertube feed: https://framatube.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=3

Youtube articles contain a <media:group> tag with a lot of information:

  <media:group>
   <media:title>Can You Observe a Typical Universe?</media:title>
   <media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/v/q-6oU3jXAho?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390"/>
   <media:thumbnail url="https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/q-6oU3jXAho/hqdefault.jpg" width="480" height="360"/>
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...</media:description>
   <media:community>
    <media:starRating count="7709" average="4.92" min="1" max="5"/>
    <media:statistics views="176224"/>
   </media:community>http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss
  </media:group>

Peertube articles contain some <media:content> and <media:thumbnail> tags.

<media:group>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-1080.torrent" isDefault="true">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-720.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-480.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-360.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:content type="application/x-bittorrent" url="https://framatube.org/static/torrents/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0-240.torrent">
                </media:content>
                <media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
            </media:group>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://framatube.org/static/thumbnails/ed5c048d-01f3-4ceb-97db-6e278de512b0.jpg" height="122" width="223">
            </media:thumbnail>

Tags provided by Youtube and Peertube are a bit different, even if they both use the Media-RSS extension. So I don't know if Peertube feeds should be "treated like youtube ones". But at list displaying the thumbnail, and the description if provided would be amazing!

Éloi

[Chuhtra]

Hi Sam, I hope the end of the year finds you well.

Is there any recent update/plan to work on this issue? I also faced this today, mainly affected by the thumbnail missing in Peertube feeds.

Thanks