[webcast-l] podcasting question

Mick Fuzz mickfuzz at rocketmail.com
Tue Jul 18 10:10:23 BST 2006


> We have used Broadcast Machine -
> http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/ - as a
> platform for presenting
> some material from The Showcase (see
> http://getmedia.org.uk) and
> Broadcast Machine does support video RSS feeds.
> 
> The CMA has an excellent guide to making audio
> podcasts on our new
> wiki server -
>
http://wiki.commedia.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Podcasting_in_3_easy_steps

That is a really useful link, the same technique would
work with video podcasting i imagine. The RSS editor
application seems a really good solution for a lot of
people already uploading their video online, with out
them having to change their system

> - and subscribers to this list are invited to add
> their own useful and
> relevant content to the wiki here:
>
http://wiki.commedia.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.
> The wiki will
> shortly be updated to include information about
> video podcasting and
> other technologies.

Bill, I've been working on a new space for
documentation, 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video

This was adopted as a place to put documentation at a
gathering of video on the internet projects called
transmission which met in Rome in June. There is more
information on the website. http://transmission.cc

It would be great if we could help each other out in
creating more complete documentation!

> 
> Has the custom build platform that you are using
> been made available
> for general use at all?  What advantages does it
> have when compared to
> other similar platforms?

ok it is open source and downloadable here
http://ourvideocms.sourceforge.net

There is only one developer, me. And I'm very happy to
work with groups who want to use it, but i would
suggest that they have someone that is proficient at
php to adapt the code if necessary. 

The advantages are mainly that it creates a web page
presentation of your work, and a video podcast, and
it's easy to follow the upload instructions, and you
can upload either throught html forms or via ftp. 

It is also easy to customise the video page of the
partner so that it blends into a partners website.
That is what we are planning to do the with the
Community Arts North West website. So viewers to that
site don't even know they are visiting another
webspace when they are looking at the Video page on
ourvideo. 

Mid term, it makes sense to try to incorporate these
features into another established CMS. My favourite at
the moment is drupal. 

I would be very interested if other groups would be
interested in collaborating on that project. 

In London in October, there is going to be a follow up
event to the Transmission Event in Rome, called
re:transmission. I'll definatly keep people on this
list posted about that.   

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