RSS media source
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Template:XBMC faq toc Inline RSS Feed sources allow you to add and list and view/listen to online video/audio/picture streams directly from XBMC GUI.
- Note: Don't confuse RSS Feeds with RSS feed Control which is a scrolling RSS feed on your XBMC Home page.
What are RSS Feeds?
RSS (which stands for "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, image, audio, video—in a standardized format. An RSS document is commonly called a "RSS feed", "RSS channel", or "Web feed", includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by such RSS feeds. Video podcasts are sometimes referred to as "vidcasts" or "vodcasts".
RSS Feeds in XBMC
XBMC features a built-in RSS Feed Reader Client for such audio and video sources. This type of media source will connect to the RSS feed you enter and list the audio, video or image files available to stream with thumbnails and metadata if available.
The RSSFeeds.xml file within the XBMC UserData folder contains the RSS feeds which are displayed by XBMC.
rss:// network protocol
The rss:// protocol is available in XBMC Media Center 8.10 and later.
To connect to a specific RSS feed, under the music, videos, or pictures section of XBMC, add a new source. In the Sources.xml file, the source should have a URL that looks like:
<source> <name>RSS Feed</name> <path>rss://</path> </source>
In the GUI it should look something like this:
RSS Client for reading text feeds
XBMC does not have the built-in capability to read RSS feeds, however there is an installable script that allows you to navigate through RSS feeds and read them, it is able of displaying attached media: single images, multiple images and videos. Unfortunately this script is not actively mantained, but it works on XBMC 10.1. You can read the forum thread where the project started.
Installation and configuration
You must add the pieh Add-on Repository downloading the zip file and selecting System, Add-ons, Install from zip file. After that, you can install the script via System, Add-ons, Download Add-ons.
The script gets RSS feed from the ones configured into the userdata/RssFeeds.xml configuration file. You can also use the RSS Editor add-on to edit that file.