Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. Video on demand ( VOD) or Audio video on demand ( AVOD) systems allow users to select and watch/listen This page is about the visual medium for the Thai film see Video Clip (2007 film. The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for Web feeds while the Atom Publishing RSS enclosures are a way of attaching Multimedia content to RSS feeds by providing the URL of a file associated with an entry such as an 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. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized A set-top box (STB or set-top unit (STU is a device that connects to a Television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into

Contents 1 Technology and history 2 Timeline 3 See also 3.1 Video podcast software 4 References 5 External links

Technology and history

From a web server, a video podcast can be distributed as a file or as a stream. The term web server can mean one of two things A Computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web clients which are A computer file is a block of Arbitrary Information, or resource for storing information which is available to a Computer program and is usually Streaming multimedia is Multimedia that is constantly received by and normally presented to an end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider (the 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. A portable multimedia player ( PMP) sometimes referred to as a portable video player ( PVP) is a Consumer electronics device that is capable A downloaded version can be watched many times with only one download, reducing bandwidth costs in this case. 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.

A podcast client may work with a separate, or integrated player. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download One such example of the latter is iTunes, which is an unusual case of a web feed aggregator being added to a media player rather than vice versa. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content

Timeline

• On 31 October 2003^[1] Canadian film collective Rocket Ace Moving Pictures launches the serialized web-based video zombie comedy project Dead End Days at DeadEndDays.com while referred to by its creators as a "web-serial" throughout 2003 and 2004, it is adopted by the podcast community as a progenitor. zombie is a reanimated human corpse Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled Dead End Days was a Zombie comedy internet webserial released by Rocket Ace Moving Pictures between 2003 and 2004 ^[2] The creators retroactively add RSS features to the site.

• On 1 January 2004 Steve Garfield launches his video blog and declares that 2004 would be the year of the video blog. Steve Garfield is a Videographer and Video blogger based in Boston, Massachusetts. ^[3][4]

• On October 1 2005 Terra: The Nature of Our World launched making it the first Natural History video podcast. Terra The Nature of Our World, launched in October 2005 and was one of the first Video podcasts TERRA is a highly successful Weekly video show about It is produced in conjunction with the MFA program in Science & Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University, Filmmakers for Conservation, and PBS. Montana State University - Bozeman (MSU is a Public university located in Bozeman Montana, U The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the ^[5]

• On June 8 2006, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, launched her video podcast via the Chancellor's website, making her the first head of government to issue a regular video podcast. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Head of government of Germany is called Chancellor (Kanzler (ˈaŋɡela doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛɐ̯kəl (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany) is the Chancellor of Germany. This article focuses on the cases where the Head of Government is a separate office from the Head of State ^[6]

• On December 16, 2006, Time magazine named its Person of the Year as "You", referring to independent content creators on the web and video podcasters in particular. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States Newsmagazine Time that features and profiles Crash Test Kitchen, a video podcast begun in April 2005 by home cooks Waz and Lenny, was featured in the magazine as an example of this phenomenon. Crash Test Kitchen (CTK is the original video cooking Podcast and Video blog (vlog as featured in Time Magazine. The magazine itself was a distinctive issue that featured a flexible mirror on the cover.

• On April 13, 2007, the British panel game Have I Got News for You started to broadcast a vodcast called Have I Got News for You: The Inevitable Internet Spin-off. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A panel game is a Game show, particularly popular in the United Kingdom, in which a panel of celebrities compete — either in teams or individually Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. The first HIGNFY vodcast was presented by Jeremy Clarkson. Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960 is an English broadcaster

• Another British panel game, QI, also announced that it would create a vodcast, starting in Series E. In traditional Chinese culture, qi (zh [[wikt氣 氣]] Pinyin qì, Wade-Giles ch'i Jyutping However, this was changed into a set of "Quickies", not downloadable and only viewable from the BBC website. ^[7]

• On November 25, 2007, Neil Fairbrother was featured in the Sunday Observer's Courvoisier Future 500 for creating pod3. tv, a web TV channel that creates and distributes TV shows as video podcasts.

See also

• Podcast
• Phonecast
• Screencast
• Web jockey

Video podcast software

• KatchTV
• Miro Media Player

References

External links

Lists of video podcast directories: (not individual directories)

• vodcasts.tv - your vodcast directory

Lists of video podcast resources/Training:

• VidPodcaster.com- Blog and Podcast about video podcasting
• Producing Video Podcasts – Book on Video Podcasting

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