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Download plugin with rss/xml playlists

Following the suggestions made in this thread: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/questions/6062666-download-plugin

I want to use the download plugin with an xml playlist. The plugin is downloading the .smil manifest files instead of the video files: http://www.librarymedia.net/Dynamic/Council.html

I want to provide the specific links to each individual video in the playlist, so the questions is, how is the <downloadlink> invoked in the rss file? This is what I have:

<item>
<title>Borough Meeting</title>
<description>Test Recording</description>
<media:content url="Manifests/Council-Meeting-Sample-02202015.smil" />
<media:content url="Manifests/Council-Meeting-Sample-02202015.m3u8" />
<media:thumbnail url="Splash/Council-Meeting-logo.png" />
<downloadlink>http://63.116.232.8/vod/Council-Meeting-Sample-02202015_2000kbps.mov</downloadlink>
</item>

Thanks



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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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An rtmp file cannot be downloaded directly from the client. I recommend adding a custom download button that points to a backup mp4 file. Here is how that can be done: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1436999-example-adding-a-download-button
-Cooper

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cgarcia

User  
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Not trying to get it to download an rtmp stream directly.

My question is how to include a direct link when using an rss playlist. Although the playlist points to both a .smil (rtmp) and an .m3u8 (for iOS) manifest file I want to know how to also include a direct link in the playlist (the <downloadlink>http://63.116.232.8/vod/Council-Meeting-Sample-02202015_2000kbps.mov</downloadlink> in the rss code that I provided). The original thread that I linked to discuss how to do this but did not specify exactly how this was done in their xml playlist.

Look at this thread if you need a better idea of what I'm trying to do: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/questions/6062666-download-plugin

Thanks for the help Cooper.

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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Did you see my response regarding the addButton? You cannot create a download for a playlist. Downloading will only work with an mp4.
Cooper

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cgarcia

User  
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> Did you see my response regarding the addButton? You >cannot create a download for a playlist.

Yes, but the thread that I referenced states otherwise and the person seems to have a working page doing this. He mentioned that he added the <downloadlink> parameter to his .rss playlist and Ethan mentioned that this would have to be done for each entry in the playlist.

According to that thread this can be done: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/questions/6062666-download-plugin

Thanks again.

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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That conversation pertains to JW5. We no longer support JW5 or any of it’s plugins.
Cooper

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cgarcia

User  
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> That conversation pertains to JW5.

Right. Just noticed that his page uses JW5.

So there's absolutely no way to make this work with JW6? Otherwise, it seems like the download functionality is useless (at least for those using JW to stream multiple items in a playlist).

Any chance this could be implemented again in JW6 at some point?

Thanks

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