Subscribe to Video Podcasts

This details how to subscribe to a Video Channel from an RSS feed you've got from a video sharing site or video blog.

To do this we first need to use a browser and open a site that has a video podcast available. We then need to find out the web address ('URL') of the video podcast / channel. Technically, this is channel called an RSS feed. You find RSS feeds on Video Blogs or news sites. They are normally identified by a graphic which links to a text file. Some sites might refer to it as a 'vodcast'.

The image associated with the channel could be anything. There has been an attempt to standardise the icons related to 'RSS feeds' and it has been somewhat succesful. For example if you see an image like this it indicates an RSS Feed:

However there are no rules and any link or image might be used.

Once you have found the link we need to Right Click ( Ctrl + Click on Mac) on it and choose 'Copy Link Location' or 'Copy Shortcut'. This will copy the URL into the computer's memory or 'clipboard'.

Now we have the URL of the Channel 'in memory' we can return to Miro and copy this information to Miro. To do this Select Channels > Add Channel from the Miro menu as shown below :

   

When the Add Channel box appears, you may see the URL of the channel already in it.

This is because Miro knows that if there is something in the memory of your computer.  When you open this box Miro guesses that what is in memory is probably the URL of a channel. If it doesn't appear then try pressing (Alt + v) or (Apple + v on a Mac) to 'paste' the address of the channel into the box.

Click Ok when you have done this.

Miro will then add the channel to the menu on the left :

 

Miro then will automatically start updating the list of videos available through this channel. This may take some time depending on how much content is available on the new channel and how fast/slow your internet connection is.