online video subcategory defined in feed?

[brainbone]

I was looking at adding some custom online feeds to v7, but have a question:

Is it possible to have sagetv pull categories / sub categories from an XML feed rather than having to manually specify them in the CustomOnlineVideoLinks.properties and CustomOnlineVideoUIText.properties files?

[evilpenguin]

Yep!

In v7, sage added the ability to specify subcatagories inside podcast feeds. In the simpliest terms you can think of it as a podcast feed of podcast feeds...

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
  <channel> 
    <title><![CDATA[Feed of Feeds]]></title> 
    <description><![CDATA[Feed of Feeds]]></description> 
    <language>en-us</language> 
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Feed of Feeds]]></itunes:summary> 
    <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Feed of Feeds]]></itunes:subtitle> 
    <item> 
      <title><![CDATA[Feed #1]]></title> 
      <description><![CDATA[Feed #1]]></description> 
      <pubDate></pubDate> 
      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Feed #1]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration></itunes:duration>
      <enclosure url="http://feed_1_URL.xml" length="" type="sagetv/subcategory" /> 
      <media:content duration="" medium="video" fileSize="" url="http://feed_1_URL.xml" type="sagetv/subcategory"> 
       <media:title><![CDATA[Feed #1]]></media:title> 
        <media:description><![CDATA[Feed #1]]></media:description> 
        <media:thumbnail url=""/> 
      </media:content> 
    </item>
    <item> 
      <title><![CDATA[Feed #2]]></title> 
      <description><![CDATA[Feed #2]]></description> 
      <pubDate></pubDate> 
      <itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Feed #2]]></itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration></itunes:duration>
      <enclosure url="http://feed_2_URL.xml" length="" type="sagetv/subcategory" /> 
      <media:content duration="" medium="video" fileSize="" url="http://feed_2_URL.xml" type="sagetv/subcategory"> 
       <media:title><![CDATA[Feed #2]]></media:title> 
        <media:description><![CDATA[Feed #2]]></media:description> 
        <media:thumbnail url=""/> 
      </media:content> 
    </item>
  </channel> 
</rss>

Then all you'd need to do is make one .properties file that loads this base feed, and then you can do whatever you want inside nested subcategory feeds.

If you give some more specific details about what you're trying to do I can help some more.

[brainbone]

Perfect! I'll give that a shot!

Do you know if SageTV caches these results, or can they be updated on every "visit"? I seem to remember that feeds seemed to be cached by sagetv for some time in v6 making it difficult to pull from lists that update often -- wondering if that holds true in v7.

[evilpenguin]

Sage doesn't cache dynamic subcatagories so you should be good.

[brainbone]

I created an example feed simply using a copy and paste of the above XML, then then tried various method of trying to get that list to show in the online menu of SageTV, but only ended in getting my test "Test Feeds" menu item to show in "More Online Services" menu, but no sub categories from the feed ever appear -- only a "back" button.

So, I think I may need a little help/clarification with the "Then all you'd need to do is make one .properties file that loads this base feed" portion of your instructions.