Submitting your video to blinkx »

Blinkx needs to know the location of your raw media file, in order to make use of your feed. The location of a 'player' page is not enough. There are two standard ways of adding this information, and we support both:

In each <item> element of your RSS feed you may use an <enclosure> element, with the url attribute set to the location of the media file. The full specification of this element is here link opens in a new window, and proper usage would look like this (but with your own video's URL in place):

...
<item>
  <title>rb_07_apr_27</title>
  <description>...</description>
  <link>http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2007/04/rb_07_apr_27.html</link>
  <guid>http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2007/04/rb_07_apr_27.html</guid>
  <category>daily</category>
  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:56:11 -0500</pubDate>
  

<enclosure url="http://www.rocketboom.net/video/rb_07_apr_27.mov" length="10000" type="video/quicktime"/>


</item>
<item>
  <title>rb_07_apr_26</title>
...

You may use the media:rss standard, which is defined here link opens in a new window - and place the url of your video within a <media:content> element. That looks something like this:

...
<item>
  <title>Five guilty of UK bomb plot</title>
  <description>...</description>
  <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/help/3681938.stm</link>
  <guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>UK</category>
  

<media:content bitrate="56" duration="253" url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/uk/video/91000/nb/91809_16x9_nb.asx" type="video/x-ms-asf" expression="full" />


  <media:thumbnail url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42864000/jpg/_42864389_alqaeda_66pic.jpg" width="66" height="49" />
  <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[Five men have been jailed for life for a UK bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda that could have killed hundreds of people.]]></media:text>
</item>
...

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