Can a podcast include Google videos?
August 8, 2006 3:15 PM Subscribe
I'd like to offer videos on my site, as well as via a video podcast. I'd like to use Google video to host and share the file -- am I right in thinking that I will still have to have a version on my own server for the podcast?
Ideally the file would be hosted in my environment and I'd be good to go, but we took a big bandwidth hit last time one of our videos went online, and we're going to do more and more. Google will save us money on the bandwidth, will make them easier to share and it means I don't need to build a flash movie player.
The kink comes with the podcast -- I'm pretty sure I can't link to the file on Google's servers directly for use in the podcast XML, so I need to have the file on my server anyway, which means I'm maintaining two files for each movie.
Does anyone have any thoughts to make this more tenable?
Ideally the file would be hosted in my environment and I'd be good to go, but we took a big bandwidth hit last time one of our videos went online, and we're going to do more and more. Google will save us money on the bandwidth, will make them easier to share and it means I don't need to build a flash movie player.
The kink comes with the podcast -- I'm pretty sure I can't link to the file on Google's servers directly for use in the podcast XML, so I need to have the file on my server anyway, which means I'm maintaining two files for each movie.
Does anyone have any thoughts to make this more tenable?
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Google Video seems to munge the video url of the file, I don't know if you could place a link in the RSS file.
posted by zabuni at 3:33 PM on August 8, 2006