I've been looking around for an article just on this topic! Robin Good's Web-Based Delivery of Audio and Video Materials provides a great feature-by-feature comparison. of the most popular video sharing tools.
He also tells us what users need to know before taking advantages of these services.
The requirements to start benefiting from these new services and opportunities include:
- some familiarity with the basic audio and video file formats existing out there.
- some understanding of what encodign is and what codecs are
- understanding of screen size and resolution issues
- basic familiarity with Windows Movie Maker (Windows) or iMovie (Mac)
- both softwares come bundled free with every computer - nothing to buy
There's a few hosts there that were on my radar, to-do list, including Click.TV (Carla, I haven't forgotten)
I really want to play with FlashMeeting but need at least two or three people with webcams. Anyone game? I want to compare it to skype with video.
I'm game. I just visited the site and definitely would be interested in using it myself.
Posted by: Ashley Cecil | November 19, 2006 at 05:22 AM
Hi Beth.. I'm up for it. Thanks!
Posted by: Beverly Trayner | November 20, 2006 at 12:03 AM