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SDRNews Media Feed
by Andrew McCaskey
Concerning video from CES
A few of you are aware of the SDRNews special Media feed. Let’s talk about that and why you might want to learn more.
Since SDRNews has been an audio podcast for five years, there’s been little reason to address the idea of monster file sizes.
For a number of years, the podcast was distribtued at 128k encoding with file sizes of about 15 MB. That was a function of the encoder quality and software at thattime – the famous LAME encoder.
For about two years, the podcast has generally been produced with PRotools and a license Franhoffer Institute encoder, which provides a little better sound at 64k – longer encoding time but a file size of around 5-6MB.
Now that I am starting to provide some video content, it’s a different ballgame. Files that are 50, 75, 150MB in size. A lot of HD product interviews from CES that are 20 or 30 MB in size.
Probably unfair to dump them into your regular feed without warning. That’s why I’ve set up the special event feed.
The Special media feed is designed for video. And over the next few weeks I am beginning to send out each of the interviews, programs, and backchannel segments from CES2010.
With the best of intentions I set it up last year, but with other distractions I have been remiss in filling it with content. That is about to change.
So with that in mind, simple go to sdrnews.com, click on the RSS Feeds tab, and you will find the Special Media Feed.
The benefit is that you can accumulate the content and view at your convenience, without getting surprised – eventually you will be able to browse through and most importantly fast forward through to the good parts..
. And they are available on your mobile device or locally on your itunes for uninterrupted play.
First up, the Daily wrap-up shows, then followed with the NBC-Universal programs that will start to go up over the weekend. There is a lot of content to push through the pipe, so it will be coming fast and furious.
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