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About this episode

Video podcast is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set-top box, media center or mobile multimedia device.From a web server, a video podcast can be distributed as a file or as a stream. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Downloading complete video podcasts in advance gives the user the ability to play the video podcasts offline on, for example, a portable media player. Streaming allows seeking (skipping portions of the file) without downloading the full video podcast, better statistics and lower bandwidth costs for the servers; however, users may have to face pauses in playback caused by slow transfer speeds.Prosumers are using this technology as well, but for completely different purposes: mainly targeting desktop and offline (iPod/Zune) use, and call their efforts video blogs, vlogs, vlogging and vcasts, which are easily mistaken for but are not the same as Video podcasts.

• Category

  How To

• Release Date

  Dec 2, 2006

• Runtime

  02:33