How easy is it to make a video podcast with Wordpress?

It’s easy. This is how Viddler embeds in Wordpress.

If you’ve got a webcam, you can sign up to Viddler and record your video podcasts directly to their system. That’s one way it differs from YouTube.

Like YouTube, you can then easily embed them in your website / blog pages - but unlike YouTube, Viddler allows you to tag and comment on various parts of your video. (Oh no!)

The result is comments embedded in your video which (and I haven’t played with this yet) presumably make your content more ‘findable’ by search engines.

Let’s click publish and see.

That’s pretty simple - you just need to remember to paste the player code into the HTML editor window when you’re making a post (not the VISUAL editor window).

There are basically two kinds of video streaming: ‘http streaming’ (what’s happening here) and ‘proper, real, serious streaming’ (what costs).

The upside of http streaming is that in 5 minutes, anyone can be doing it. The video and sound quality can be as high or low as you like (depending on your equipment). The downside is that for people with less-than average broadband (like us) the buffering lag (the time you wait for the thing to start playing) is pretty long.

Simple choice, though. Get it free or pay for it.

A quick comparison (more later) shows that YouTube has a faster streaming time than Viddler.

June 28, 2008 | Filed Under blogging technique, how to 

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One Response to “How easy is it to make a video podcast with Wordpress?”

  1. admin on June 28th, 2008 10:30 am

    Don’t forget to post your code in the HTML editor window NOT the visual window. Lols. You can also add video responses (see link below)

    Not overly impressed with the audio visual synch (or lack of). Also a long buffering time (which won’t be helped by my 500kbs download speed. Thanks BT)

    Http streaming at its best? Not sure. I’ll get me a YouTube video for comparison.

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