Peder Borg Borup

Currently I’m working on a podcast-system.

The idea is, that the system grabs an WMV-Windows Media File, chops it into pieces, transfer it using FTP to a transcoder (ANYSTREAM), which transcodes each show, and FTPs them back to the podcast-system. The podcast-system then edit the names, updates the database, and puts the files on a public web-server so that users are able to download the files.

And of course, a RSS-file is created. What’s “quite” unique is, that each show is tagged with categories (interests and geographically) – and as an end-user, you’re able to select which categories you wan’t to subscribe to.

The whole idea behind the system is to use existing meta-information about the shows and media-file, and then have the “system” do all the hard work, thereby “saving” ressources (it’s not that much saving – it’s more like having the same number of people produce more output).