---
title: "Ingest MRSS Spec"
slug: "ingest-mrss-spec"
updated: 2020-03-13T11:11:00Z
published: 2020-03-13T11:11:00Z
canonical: "docs.viewlift.com/ingest-mrss-spec"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Ingest MRSS Spec

To ingest content using MRSS, you need to have a fully compliant MRSS feed based on MRSS spec. When you are ingesting the feed you need to choose if content should be ingested and encoded (mind encoding costs) or you like to just ingest already encoded URL's on a CDN.

**Example of a MRSS feed where its just source and can be ingested for encoding**

```
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<item>
<guid>UUID OF YOUR ASSET</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<updated>Mon, 9 Mar 2020 20:18:13 GMT</updated>
<media:content url="URL TO YOUR CONTENT WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED VIA INTERNET" />
<media:hd>HD</media:hd>
<media:episode>0</media:episode>
<media:asset-length>LENGTH OF YOUR ASSET IN SECONDS</media:asset-length>
<media:thumbnail url="URL TO YOUR ASSET IMAGE IN JPG" />
<title>I Hate the Bus</title>
<media:description>DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ASSET</media:description>
<media:keywords>COMMA DELIMINITED KEYWORDS</media:keywords>
<rating>T</rating>
<link>URL to your PLAYER</link>
<category>Misc</category>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
```

Example of a MRSS feed where pre-encoded assets hosted on CDN are in feed

```
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:creativeCommons="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule" version="2.0">
<channel>
<link>URL TO YOUR FEED</link>
<title>ViewLift Feed</title>
<descripition>VOD Content feed for ViewLift  ingest</descripition>
<item>
<item>
<media:group>
<media:content url="URL TO M3U8 CDN PUBLIC ASSET PLAYABLE ON SAFARI" duration="129" type="video/m3u8" format="m3u8" medium="video" bitrate="1290000" width="0" height="540" />
<media:content url="URL TO MP4 CDN PUBLIC ASSET PLAYABLE ON CHROME" duration="129" type="video/mp4" format="mp4-h264bp-aac" medium="video" bitrate="1296000" width="0" height="540" />
<media:content url="URL TO MP4 CDN PUBLIC ASSET PLAYABLE ON CHROME" duration="129" type="video/mp4" format="mp4-h264bp-aac" medium="video" bitrate="1296000" width="0" height="540" />
</media:group>
<media:thumbnail url="URL TO JPG CDN PUBLIC IMAGE VIEWABLE ON CHROME" />
<guid>UUID OF YOUR ASSET</guid>
<description>DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ASSET</description>
<media:keywords>COMMA DELIMINITED KEYWORDS</media:keywords>
<title>TITLE OF YOUR ASSET</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
<media:category>
<category>CATEGORY</category>
</media:category>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
```