rss feed not working for blogger feedbased slideshow

mikkelbreum

Hi, I would like to know how to point the feed based slideshow-widget of my blogger/blogspot blog to my zenphoto feed and actually have it show the pictures.

If I point it to my flickr feed it works, but my zenphoto feed does not.

Here are the feeds as run through feedvalidator:
the working flickr feed:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=13943416@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

the non-working zenphoto feed:
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://ziggylundgren.net/fotoalbum/rss.php?albumnr=9&albumname=zuhause

For some reson the last feed: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://ziggylundgren.net/fotoalbum/rss.php?albumnr=9&albumname=zuhause does not carry image data in a way that works for the glogspot widget..

can anyone suggest a solution?

acrylian

You need a special RSS variant called "media rss", the zenphoto rss is a standard RSS feed. There is a 3rd party solution here: http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/01/hacks/#mediarss
Note: This has been done for an older zp version.

n0n1ck4me

Why would you need a 'special RSS variant' to be a 'standard RSS feed' - shouldn't the RSS be 'standard' out-of-the-box, or am I missing something here?

Edit:
That might have sounded a bit harsh (sorry) - the reason I'm asking is that I have a ZP feed read by a standards complient RSS aggregator. It all works fine, except that the feed entries in the aggregator refreshes every time it parses the fee - I wonder if this has something to do with the particular timestamps on the feed items? I.e. 'pubDate' and 'lastBuildDate' change with every refresh of the feed - not of the gallery itself, causing some issues. Seems like most other frameworks don't update their RSS timestamp unless there has been a change in the content (i.e. creating a new album/uploading a new photo) - any ideas?

PS - great work on ZP, it definitely beats other OS gallery frameworks out there. Don't let that 'feature creep' get you though

acrylian

Don't ask me and before another user asked half a year or so ago I never heard of it, too. The media rss feed is a creation by Yahoo and others and is an extension of the "normal" feed.
Because it is easy here the Wikipedia entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)