Emerging Tech Talk podcast feed coming soon…
November 24th, 2008 by Dan YorkIn case you are wondering, I am working on how to make this Emerging Tech Talk show available as a video “podcast” that you can subscribe to and download into a media player like iTunes or a device like an iPod or iPhone. The challenge is that I also want the videos to be searchable and findable in YouTube. It’s also insanely simple to upload videos to YouTube from within iMovie ‘08 – and I’m trying to do this show with as little overhead and process as possible.
I looked into seeing if I could simply subscribe to the YouTube “channel” via iTunes, but that doesn’t work for a couple of reasons. First, the YouTube ‘voxeovideos’ channel feed isn’t in a form that iTunes seems t be able to recognize. Second – and more importantly – the videos on YouTube are all in Flash video format, whereas iTunes/iPod/iPhone all need the m4v format.
So it would seem that I need to host the videos elsewhere in the appropriate iTunes/iPod/iPhone format and then also upload them to YouTube. I can obviously host them on our site – and I may do that – but we’re not really set up as a video streaming/download site. Yes, I can find a WordPress plugin, and that is an option. I’ve also looked at blip.tv in the past and it seems a range of similar services have emerged over the past couple of years. The question really is for any of those sites what their intellectual property license is like (a.k.a. Terms of Service) and whether or not they allow companies to upload videos. There is also admittedly a cost factor, i.e. do they charge and if so how much?
So that’s the scoop… probably next week after US Thanksgiving I’ll dig into it a bit more… if any of you reading this have any ideas that you care to leave in the comments, they are certainly appreciated.
Fun, fun, fun…
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January 12th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hi, did you try vimeo to get it done? I’m not entirely sure whether the integration with other sites like youtube or itunes would be an issue, but I’m running a cast through vimeo. Hope you were able to get it done.