August 2005
Beginner
464 pages
12h 36m
English
Content preview from Podcasting HacksBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Start a Videocast
Use your camcorder and some inexpensive editing and compression tools to build movies to add to your blog.
Creating a videocast is very similar to creating a podcast. The same mechanism—the enclosure [Hack #37] —is used to distribute the videocast as in the podcast. So, once you create a video file for syndication, you upload and publish it in the same way as you publish a podcast. The attributes in the enclosure element are the same as well. Easy? Not so fast! While the format for audio files in a podcast is fairly standardized, the video in a videocast is not. A wide variety of video formats and encoding parameters are available. The major components to choosing a format are the video compression codec, video bit rate, video frame rate, audio compression codec, audio sample rate, and audio bit rate. In some cases, it is useful to calculate the total bit rate (audio plus video) as well.
The Source Format
Your source format will depend on the equipment you have or can obtain. Probably the highest convenient quality for most people is a video camera with FireWire—also called iLink (Sony), or IEEE-1394. Since many computers are coming with FireWire jacks in them, with the right software this can be a very convenient method to get your video into your computer (some cameras come with Universal Serial Bus [USB] as well, or you can get a FireWire add-on adapter). Once the video is in your computer, you can edit it if necessary and convert it to a format suitable to your ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.