News from Easthampton Community Access Television Channel 5

Online Video On-Demand

We've begun archiving our video productions on the internet and hosted on google.video at ecatv5.blogspot.com. The videos that are posted then become 'syndicated' via an rss feed, also called podcasting. What this means is that people can access the videos either via the website or by subscribing to our 'podcast' or 'vlog' video log. This is quickly becoming the internet standard for syndication, now offered by the major newspapers and most bloggers...it's that little orange icon called a podcast or feed chiclet, sometimes labeled xml or rss. To subscribe, users will just click the orange "chiclet" on the website. We produce a video, city council mtg, basketball game, etc. A high quality mpeg 2 file of it goes to the broadcast server for eventual broadcast. A compressed mpeg4 file gets uploaded to google video.

From there, you click a button to post it as an rss feed via a vlog:
http://ecatv5.blogspot.com/

This sends the info about the video to feedburner, which is the actual
syndicator of our 'podcast'...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EasthamptonCommunityAccessTvArchive?format=xml

So when a visitor comes to our main website, they can either enter the video archive and watch what they want on demand, or subscribe to upcoming video content by clicking the little orange chiclet button. The whole thing runs free and the only time commitment is uploading the mpegs to google. It gives us global distribution and syndication.

There are different pages for different content, with everything also posting to the main page to be sent out via the RSS feed. This allows people to find what they want without having to dig through all our videos:

Please e-mail us with your ideas and letters of support or call the station at 413-203-1360.