Overview
Feature Highlights
Media Support : Podesk uses QuickTime™. It supports many files formats that are ready to use instantly (MOV, 3GPP, AVI, Macromedia Flash 5, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc...). Using Quicktime™ 7+, you can publish using the H-264 codec and create your own videos that will play instantly in the iTunes directory and on the iPod video !
You can also publish from Muxed MPEG-1 movies, AVI and Divx movies, you will need the free DivX plugin for QuickTime.
DivX-Plugin from DivX.com or the plugin from DivX.labs.
Blog Support : Podesk uses DotClear as web log management, with a strong multi-user level, a complete unicode support, and beautiful themes and layouts in CSS. DotClear is released under the GNU General Public licence.
RSS 2.0 feed - Video Podcast ready : RSS2 is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, news-oriented community sites and personal weblogs. Podesk creates a compatible RSS 2.0 feed for iTunes 6+, Miro, FireAnt and many web-based RSS2 aggregator.
Automatic scene detection based on image analysis : Podesk XML is fully compatible with the MPEG-7 Metadata Standard, media files processed through the application can be integrated into any information systems and processes. You can also turn video files into segmented video using the advanced built-in Scene Detection utility.
MPEG-7, formally named "Multimedia Content Description Interface", is a standard for describing the multimedia content data that supports some degree of interpretation of the information meaning, which can be passed onto, or accessed by, a device or a computer code.
SMIL : Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL, an author can describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. Podesk integration of SMIL adds an overlay on top of each video, thus enabling a direct link to your Video Blog and to the comments !
FFmpeg : FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.
Podesk uses FFmpeg to achieve fast conversion of Quicktime files to the FLV flash format.
Player FLV by neolao. This FLV player is simple, easily customizable and Open Source.
The Coral Content Distribution Network :
Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. A peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, Coral will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.
Creative Commons Licenses :
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. We’re a nonprofit organization. All of our tools are free. Podesk lets users select a license and display license information to other users.
More technology
Podesk Publisher is made using Max/MSP and Jitter, using JAVA for network connections.
Server side Podesk Plugin for Dotclear is made using Dotclear and LAMP technology :
Apache web server
PHP 4.1+
MySQL
It Will work on most of the providers, free or not, offering maximum independence with the provider hosting the Blog.
Optionnal :
QuickTime Streaming Server
