[Solved] Media RSS feeds - video file types

[ramram]

After spending all day on this before my post above, I found a way to make it work just a few hours later!

I have an old Dropbox account which features a public folder (apparently new users don't get this for free) so I have uploaded an mp4 to Dropbox.

I also created an xml file with the rss and associated image code and that is stored in the public folder too.

I set the movie source in XBMC to the address of the xml file in Dropbox, changing http to rss at the start of the link as per usual, and hey presto it works fine.

If I view the xml page location in a browser it shows there are mp4 videos in the RSS feed.

The best reference I found for this process online was for a digital signage company here: http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/20610996-What-kinds-of-Media-RSS-feeds-can-I-use-in-BrightAuthor-

Not a great solution if you need to keep your content private, but that is not the point of RSS so is a moot point in my book.