Scheduled RSS feeds for streaming multimedia to the desktop using RSS enclosures

Purpose – Seeks to demonstrate how, with regard to viewing video on the internet, the delay experienced, whilst the stream is being buffered, can be virtually eradicated.Design/methodology/approach – Documents a scheduled rich site summary (RSS) multimedia prototype which utilizes idle computer time (at night) to subscribe to media RSS channels in order to download audio and video content.Findings – Finds that, a part from involving zero display, the quality of the operation is controlled only by the size of the hard disk not by the capacity of the connection.Originality/value – The system documented here will serve users at either end of the RSS feed chain.