New design

New template for RSSHandler. Previous was more complicated to handle and less customizable, also looked different in different browsers, this one should be more stable.

Also links to blog made public, so any interested can now follow site updates.

Short url for video feeds

URL generated by RSS Handler are quite big and ugly, and if you are not using Nokia Bar Codes, or not sending links by SMS or e-mail, it is quite difficult to enter these URLs into mobile.
Now on each page there is link to create short URLs, that are easier to enter or remember, and that are much shorter than handler's links.
To create links is used site URLOF.COM  and it can be used to shorten all kinds of links, but not only links from RSS Handler .

Favorites feed converted from ATOM to RSS

Now it is also possible to subscribe to YouTube favorites in iTunes and other podcast viewers from RSS Handler.
Also few minor bugs fixed.

Minor bug fixes

Empty url gives error and not exception.

Now it should accept various youtube sites like in.youtube.com, etc. Not only www.youtube.com.

Support for Sony PSP

Support for Sony PSP video RSS feeds. Now you can choose FLV, MP4 or PSP format for your feed and subscribe to youtube feed directly from PSP console. Resolution is only 176x144, but PSP does not support 480x360 videos.

YouTube Favorites RSS

Now it is possible to subscribe to your favorites RSS feed. Now you can select YouTube videos you like and construct your own feed and subscribe to this feed in reader. Again in MP4 and FLV.

Videos and channels in MP4

Now it is possible to download and subscribe to feeds and individual videos in high quality MP4 format. There is still option to subscribe to more compact FLV version.

Download page added

Added new page to download videos from YouTube. There are many sites that allow to download YouTube videos, but this also generates Nokia Mobile Code for each download, what makes it a little bit easier to download video to mobile phone.

Downloader supports both: embeddable and not embeddable YouTube videos.

You can find new page here, and it is available from the main menu of the site.

Youtube changed format for downloading flv video files

RSS Handler was updated to support new YouTube video download format. Previous format (Location header of http://www.youtube.com/v/#### with link to get_video.php) stopped to work and was redirecting to SWF player. 

New format is supported transparently, users of RSS Handler don't have to update their feeds and all links will work as is.

RSS Handler launched

RSS Handler is online service that allows to subscribe to YouTube RSS feeds and get feed of FLV videos.
Problems with usual YouTube RSS feed is that it provides content for online RSS clients, where each item is SWF Flash player. This is not very convenient for podcast players, where you can subscribe to feed, download it and watch videos later, while you are not online.
So far, service does nothing more than downloads requested YouTube RSS feed or channel and replaces links to SWF files with links to FLV files.
If you want to know more about FLV, podcast, etc. you may check F.A.Q. section or Google.