itunes, Flash video & I hate to say it - vodcasts November 29, 2005 5 comments
Itunes enables you to subscribe to various podcasts, of course. A podcast is really just an RSS feed - get a feed w/ some video in it - and you’ve got yourself a dynamic, self updating, video resource. To hunt down new skateboarding videos for example, simpy add http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+skateboarding as a podcast.
The only problem is - there’s not that many videos tagged with skateboarding. At least not on delicious. There’s a few, & as delicious gains users, it’s worth it to add it as a podcast, but YouTube’s similiar feed (http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/skateboarding.rss) is looking much better. Twenty new skate videos in the last 12 days, over 2,000 total. The problem here is, naturally, itunes doesn’t support .FLV’s; which happen to be the up & coming format for video on the web.
With all those ipods & itunes users out there - you’d hope apple will try & support as many formats as possible. They of course, don’t have a record for this sort of thing - so keep your eyes open for third party software, or keep your FLV’s in your browser.
mac #
wish i had a video ipod
Bill #
This is all just within itunes - no video ipods here, buh!
fred #
I don’t use iTunes. Does that make me gay?
cpawl #
Your not gay Fred… the new cool is not liking iTunes and ipods. Your ultra hip bro, now go skin some Winamp.
Bill #
Heck yes, cpawl’s got it right! It’s so hip to be anti mac right now. Your finger’s on the pulse Fred!