<boxee:background-image> <media:thumbnail>

[David Hurwich]

Hello,

I'm a media producer and I'm trying to build an boxee app for my show. When building my rss-app I've converter my old I-tunes rss to Boxee-standard rss feed.

I've tried to add the <boxee:background-image> and <media:thumbnail> tag as listed in the developers section, however, when I've tested them I have not been able to get them to work.

Has anyone been able to get them to work properly? If you so could you post some rss sample code, perhaps I've have not set them up properly.

thanks

[xmcnuggetx]

for media:thumbnail make sure you are specifying it correctly. the tag should look something like:


<media:thumbnail url="http://url/to/image/here.png" />


also make sure you are including the namespaces. look at:
http://developer.boxee.tv/rss-specification/

section labeled namespaces

[dc2447]

Has anyone gotten <boxee:background-image> to work? Can you show an example?

[jendabom]

Take a look here http://www.fuzzthed.com/rsstutorial.php

[dc2447]

Take a look here http://www.fuzzthed.com/rsstutorial.php where does that show examples of <boxee:background-image> ?

[jendabom]

Sorry thought he covered it in there.

http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=63724&postcount=7

this has an example. Something I wrote up for someone else needing clarification.

[dc2447]

Sorry thought he covered it in there.

http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=63724&postcount=7

this has an example. Something I wrote up for someone else needing clarification.
Interesting but you are using a relative path

<boxee:background-image>animagename.png</boxee:background-image>

where does boxee expect animagename.png to be? Is it possible to have fully qualified urls?

This is what I have, and it doesn't work

<boxee:background-image>http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1134165/30118-fyre-gimp.jpg</boxee:background-image>

[jendabom]

It is designed to use as a url I was just typing in that as an example. Yours should work.

[jendabom]

Could you pm me the rss link if you do not want to post it here I can take a look.

Instead of
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">

Make sure you are using this to start your feed
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
xmlns:boxee="as http://boxee.tv/spec/rss/"> So it will know what you mean when you call
<boxee:background-image>

[dc2447]

It is designed to use as a url I was just typing in that as an example. Yours should work.

Thanks for the response but no matter what image I try nothing loads :(

[jendabom]

did you see my update above?

[dc2447]

did you see my update above? did, message sent

[jendabom]

Try to make your bg image a png. And make it 1280 x 720 while you are at it ;)

[Fuzzgtp]

<app>
<id>com.jendabom.fancast</id>
<name>Fancast</name>
<version>1.0</version>
<description>Fancast | Watch Full TV Shows and Movies | Free Online Streaming</description>
<thumb>http://app.jendabom.com/fancast.jpg</thumb>
<media>video</media>
<copyright>jendabom</copyright>
<email>jen.blom@gmail.com</email>
<type>rss</type>
<platform>all</platform>
<minversion>0.9.7</minversion>
<url>rss://app.jendabom.com/Fancast_Boxee_video-index.xml</url>
<backgroundImageUrl>http://www.comcast.com/MediaLibrary/1/1/About/PressRoom/Images/LogoAndMediaLibrary/Logos/InteractiveMedia/FANCAST_LOGO_TM.jpg</backgroundImageUrl>
</app>


here is an example of what Jenn uses on the fancast app.

[dc2447]

<app>
<id>com.jendabom.fancast</id>
<name>Fancast</name>
<version>1.0</version>
<description>Fancast | Watch Full TV Shows and Movies | Free Online Streaming</description>
<thumb>http://app.jendabom.com/fancast.jpg</thumb>
<media>video</media>
<copyright>jendabom</copyright>
<email>jen.blom@gmail.com</email>
<type>rss</type>
<platform>all</platform>
<minversion>0.9.7</minversion>
<url>rss://app.jendabom.com/Fancast_Boxee_video-index.xml</url>
<backgroundImageUrl>http://www.comcast.com/MediaLibrary/1/1/About/PressRoom/Images/LogoAndMediaLibrary/Logos/InteractiveMedia/FANCAST_LOGO_TM.jpg</backgroundImageUrl>
</app>


here is an example of what Jenn uses on the fancast app.

Yeah - we got there in the end by converting to PNG, resizing and changing where it was hosted :(

[darcilicious]

Was there some other magic step involved with <boxee:background-image> ?

My image is a png, 720x1280 and hosted on a public website (not dropbox but the URL totally reachable by anyone) but I can't get it to show up in rss app.