Failed to retrieve feed item... It might not play

[jhb50]

OK..thanks again..that makes the situation much clearer..and provides more info for a wiki... Since these rtmp rss feeds will be mostly user created its no problem using enclosure or using a generic groovy, like my LiveFeeds to change media:content into enclosure and add type.

There is actually a way to tell that an RSS item is live http://www.rssboard.org/media-rss.

  Code:

<media:content expression="nonstop">

Btw., zip, what's the point transcoding non live items to file?

[zip]

1) because of protocols (e.g. rtmp)
2) because not all web servers support byte range requests
3) to save bandwidth in a case there are more clients watching the same file

The same is true for RAM transcoding that you do for live streams, well, except for when multiple clients are watching the same non live file.
And no problems with running out of HDD space.