The Technology Underlying Podcasts

Author

Patterson, Laurie J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Wilmington, NC

Volume

39

Issue

10

fYear

2006

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

105

Abstract

Podcasting is a combination of "iPod," Apple\´s well-known portable media device, and "broadcast." Podcast has two meanings. First, podcasting is the transmission of multimedia files over the Internet. Rather than being received and opened with different plug-ins, podcast files are ready for viewing on either a PC or other devices, such as an iPod. On the PC, users can treat podcast files like any other computer files, viewing them immediately or saving them for viewing at a later date. Second, in addition to the delivery of files, podcast also refers to their content. Frequently, podcasts are files that are sent at regular intervals. Once viewers determine which podcasts they want, they sign up for them and have them delivered automatically whenever their receiving device is connected to the Internet

Keywords

Internet; audio equipment; broadcasting; multimedia systems; video equipment; Internet; broadcasting; iPod; multimedia file transmission; podcasting; portable media device; Audio recording; Digital audio broadcasting; Digital audio players; Feeds; File servers; HTML; Testing; Uniform resource locators; Web pages; Web server; file sharing; podcasts;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2006.361

Filename

1707648