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derekctv
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Playlists

Just trying to get my head around playlists. I am moving away from a popular platform where the playlist information dynamically updated Roku and moving to Amazon to host metadata and video files. I am building playlists in my own CMS where each playlist has a URN and each URN owns one or more videos who in turn have a unique URN. Playlists change regularly with new videos being inserted or removed. I want to import the latest playlist information into Amazon and then update my Roku channel, can you recomend a specific method that Roku prefers, perhaps its an XML update or some other clever mechanism.
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SkipFire
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Re: Playlists

XML is the easiest format to send to the Roku. I store mine in a DB and then write it to several format depending on the device (Roku, Android, Windows, etc).
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derekctv
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Re: Playlists

Thanks Skipfire. Just got to that point after some extensive SDK reading and doing just that. My confusion arose from the announcemnt that JSON was an option, but I prefer XML. Happy New Year.
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