Windows7 & Vista: Big Screen Headlines: How to see the content of an RSS item?

[Dierk]

Hi,

RSS items usually consist of a headline and some linked content. I do see the RSS items and could get to the headlines. However, how would I follow the link which actually would bring me to a HTML page holding the full content for that RSS item. Would taht HTML content be rendered in Big Screen headlines?

Thanks in advance

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Dierk

Hi,

RSS items usually consist of a headline and some linked content. I do see the RSS items and could get to the headlines. However, how would I follow the link which actually would bring me to a HTML page holding the full content for that RSS item. Would taht HTML content be rendered in Big Screen headlines?

Thanks in advance

Hi -
Headlines v2 will only show you content that is included in the RSS Feed itself (and will render HTML content if it exists in the 'description' field) - or media that is linked to the feed items.

It's not that suitable for use with feeds that only contain brief information (such as headlines only) and then links to a HTML web site. In most cases - these destination links cannot be rendered properly in Media Center Presentation Layer - and if a IE browser session was shown instead - it's unlikely they could be controlled by the MC Remote control only. (so would be unsuitable for most people to use on their Media Center setup - and would be unworkable on an extender device where no mouse/kb was present).

However - there's currently a lot of good feeds (for all topics) that have decent amount of actual content in them - so try to stick with those for the best experience.

Niall

[Dierk]

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately most good German (that's where I live) RSS feeds have the real, valuable content in a separate link.

On the IE rendering issue: could you please elaborate on that a bit more. As I recall there e.g. is a product our there (mceBrowser) which claims to present web/HTML content no problems. What particular issues did you encounter?

Also: I'm not looking for full browser feature on the content page, just rendering the content would be fine. I guess there even would not be a need to actually follow the links in that content ... just a "back" functionality to get back to the RSS headline view.

Thanks for listening

[Astrotoy7]

Hi Niall. I have a similar query... I am playing with the demo versions, is there any way to get youtube RSS to work. Based on your answer to the above, I am think not, as all you get is a link to the page it is on and a thumbail of the vid rather than the actual vid

Any other similar sites you could recommend that have RSS feeds with directly accessible flash vids, not HD vids with massive downloads I dont have the bandwidth for... ??

Astro