The Media Publishing System (MPS) offered by thePlatform, a provider of digital audio and video publishing solutions, announced that it has added support for RSS, the XML-based Web content syndication format. MPS is a digital media publishing solution that enables content owners, aggregators and enterprises to manage and deliver digital media content to PCs, mobile devices and TVs.
MPS enables content owners and aggregators to manage and publish their media in a variety of digital audio and video codecs and formats, including Windows Media, Flash, MP3, MPEG-4, 3GPP and others, for playback on PCs, as well as a variety of portable media players and cell phones. With the integrated content management features in MPS, users can easily manage and organize their media, using unlimited content categories. Integrated RSS publishing support in MPS enables content owners to make their video publishing portals discoverable. Content owners can also publish categorized feeds, enabling more personalized, device-specific consumer experiences.
Using built-in MPS features for end-user authentication, digital media content can be secured and accessed via proper authentication or it can be made freely available. Through advanced commerce and digital rights management support, content can be published with recurring subscription, pay-per-view or advertising business models. Content owners or aggregators can deploy MPS as a carrier-grade hosted (ASP) solution, or as a self-hosted or hybrid application.
Content owners use MPS to easily aggregate, manage and publish their digital media for delivery over broadband and mobile networks.
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