What is a Video Podcast?
A video podcast
is also known as a vodcast or a vidcast in
short. A video podcast refers to a media file
that can be viewed by downloading from podcast
sites through RSS or Atom feeds. The consumers
today can easily subscribe to video podcast
sites from where they can receive and view
the files of their choice. The RSS proves
to be a non linear TV viewing channel that
viewer can subscribe to and view on their
PC, TV, set top box or any other multimedia
device capable of playing videos.
The web server can distribute the video podcast
in the form of a file or a stream. The file
and the stream methods have advantages as
well as disadvantages. For example, by using
the file method you can download the whole
video podcast on your computer and can view
it again and again. On the other hand streaming
allows you to see portions of a file without
you having to download the full video podcast.
This also leads to lower bandwidth costs for
the users as well as the servers hosting the
video podcasts.
Creating a video podcast is not a difficult
task at all. Even if you are a novice you
can create your own video podcasts within
an hour and then upload them to podcast sites.
There are podcast creation softwares available
through which you can create podcasts in a
few easy steps. Or why not install video podcast
software for viewing videos? Software like
KatchTV is extremely popular as it can be
operated from the desktop and used to find
and locate TV channels. You can just click
on the channel’s feed button on websites
such as VODStock and then subscribe to the
channels that you want to watch. You can simply
watch the programs or the episodes online
and even download them on your computer to
be viewed later.
The experience of watching video podcasts
is as good as you are watching TV or a satellite
channel. The picture quality and sound is
great and you won’t even feel like you
are watching a video podcast. Best of all,
most of the video podcasts are totally free
for distribution and viewing on the internet.
However there maybe some video podcasts that
can be viewed only by a select group of people.
You have to be an authorized member of the
site in case you want to watch these private
video podcasts.
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