Media RSS is a special flavor of RSS 2.0 created (by Yahoo) to distribute rich media assets like images and videos. Most photo sharing sites like Flickr and SmugMug publish multiple RSS feeds using Media RSS. This walkthrough will show you how to load a feed from Flickr.com.
Open your browser and visit Flickr.com. If you have a profile, login to your account, then scroll to the bottom of the page. You should see a square, orange RSS feed graphic followed by the words “Subscribe to [yourprofile]’s photos”. Right click on the “Latest” link next to that, and select “Copy Link” (or whatever is applicable to your browser). The URL is now on your clipboard.
Open Flash, and add an instance of SlideShowPro for Flash to the Stage. Select it, then open the Component Inspector panel. At the top modify DATA/XML File Path and click inside the “images.xml” field. Delete “images.xml,” and paste the URL you copied from Flickr.
Directly underneath DATA/XML File Path is DATA/XML File Type. Change this from “Default” to “Media RSS.”
Publish a new movie, and your Media RSS feed from Flickr should load.
