Media RSS (MRSS) is an RSS extension used for syndicating multimedia files (audio, video, image) in RSS feeds. It was designed in 2004 by Yahoo! and the Media RSS community, and adds several enhancements to RSS enclosures. One example of enhancements is specification of thumbnails for each media enclosure.

Media RSS is used by content publishers to feed media files into Yahoo! Video Search, which is a feature of Yahoo! Search that allows to search for video files. The format can be used for podcasting, which uses the RSS format as a means of delivering content to media-playing devices. Media RSS allows for a much more detailed description of the content to be delivered to the subscriber than is covered by the RSS standard.

Applications supporting MRSS

• Adobe Media Player [1]
• Akregator
• Cooliris
• Flock
• Miro Internet television application
• Picasa API
• Songbird

• Autodiscovery (6)
• Directories (23)
• FAQs, Help, and Tutorials (16)

• Generators (16)
• Specifications (35)
• Validators (7)

See also:

• Computers: Data Formats: Markup Languages: XML: Applications (142)
• Computers: Software: Internet: Clients: WWW: Feed Readers (180)
• Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: Technical Services: Cataloguing: Metadata: RDF: Applications (16)

• XML Tools: RSSApplet
  webreference.com
  This site contains XML tools for web masters, for instance the RSSViewerApplet for displaying RSS headlines in an HTML page.
• RSS DevCenter
  oreillynet.com
  A collection of essays and guides to RSS, from O'Reilly, the technical book publisher.
• RDF Rich Site Summary (RSS)
  xml.coverpages.org
  News and history of RSS. By Robin Cover, XML Cover Pages, OASIS.