Podcasting & Web Material                                            

Digital Video Media can produce both audio and video files for upload/download on a wide variety of devices

Podcasts and webcasts are an ideal way to keep websites fresh, to launch new products, to announce company results and to personailse your company's image and message to customers and website visitors

Material can be produced for websites, portable music and video players and mobile phones

We currently film, record and produce for several national companies for their Midlands clients and are able to produce podcasts for you both locally and nationally

Prices start from £99

What is a Podcast?

A Podcast consists of high resolution MP3 or other audio files wrapped in a RSS feed, RSS or really simple scripting is widely used on the web as a means to create news feeds or product updates that can be read by browsers and other websites.

RSS 2.0 is used to underpin Podcasting by the use of the enclosures tag, the RSS feed is exactly the same XML code as the one you can get BBC news through except that the enclosure tag is used to point at media files (in this case audio). A Podcasting client such as Ipodder reads the RSS feed which is made available on a website URL and downloads the files highlighted by the enclosure tag in the background, as soon as all the files are ready the new Podcast is shows as available in the client.

Ipodder client - PodcastingYou can then listen to the Podcast at your desktop or you can set iPodder to synchronise  the files and play list with your Ipod or portable audio device. As you can see Podcasting isn't really that complicated, its a different use of a stable and tested technology (RSS) to provide a way to download high resolution files in the background.

You can add multiple Podcast to the client so it will watch all of these URL's for an updated feed, the RSS script contains time and date information making this process very easy and enabling the client to download a new Podcast as soon as it is published. It's also quite secure as the whole Podcast system is subscription based, you search for a Podcast you would like to subscribe to and only those which you have chosen are downloaded to your device.