Tutorials as a podcast
I’d like to thank darrelplant for a comment he made recently on the post about our tutorial video format. He explains how to get iTunes to automagically download the tutorial video as its released as a podcast. I didn’t even know you could do that and I think its really cool.
With MOV you can just subscribe to the RSS feed with iTunes and let it download the tutorials automatically. Just enter “http://feeds2.feedburner.com/71squared†into the “Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast†and let it rip. I don’t think that’d work with FLV.
So thanks for that really useful info darrel
Mike
3 Comments
John on May 7th, 2009
Very cool, nice find Darrel :)
darrelplant on May 8th, 2009
I only knew that because a few years ago I was asked to speak at a conference about (then Macromedia, now Adobe) Director. The podcast thing was just getting underway, and I undertook writing a podcast reader in Director as an example for the talk. Spent several weeks researching RSS and related topics and writing my engine.
I think four people showed up in a room that held several hundred.
darrelplant on May 7th, 2009
Happy to be of service.
It works because the RSS generator for your site automatically creates a media enclosure tag, and a podcast feed is essentially an XML list of articles with media enclosure tags. If the podcast reader (iTunes or whatever) can find the tags and identify the file type, then they can download them.