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Webcasting
Formats
for
Multiple Uses & Multiple Purposes
There
are a multitude of webcasting formats and which format is used depends
on
the purpose and uses of the webcast.
Formatting for
a webcast is contained in
three categories: audio, video, and media.
These formats are used to
compress, decompress, and encode audio, video, and media for uploading
and downloading information from a web server or streaming web server.
The
typical
webcasting formats
include:
- MP3 – Motion Picture Experts
Group Audio Layer 3
- MPEG4 – Motion Picture Experts
Group audio and video
- OGG – video and audio
- WMA
–
Windows Media Audio
- Real Audio
– audio files
- Real Video –
video files
- HE AAC – High
Efficiency lousy data compression
- ASF – Advanced
Streaming Format
- SWF – Shock Wave Flash
- FLV
–
Flash Video
- VoIP – Voice over
Internet Protocol
- Real Media –
multimedia files
- Quick Time –
video, audio, multimedia files
- DivX – compresses
lengthy video segments
- WMV – Windows Media Video
- 3GP
– mobile phones
- AVI – Audio
Video Interleaved
- WAV –
Windows Audio Video
- Shoutcast – Streaming MP3
Webcast
formats are used by many online businesses to support their services to
customers and some of these include:
- Radio
stations – streaming their music online for listeners
all over the world
- Television
stations – streaming all of portions of their programs for viewers
- YouTube
– online video sharing
service
- MySpace – online video and music sharing
service
- MyDeo
– online video sharing service that is family oriented
- iTunes – online music sharing
service
- iRecord – online media sharing service
- Webcast
service
companies – provide software and resources for business
that want to stream media to employees or customers
- Webinars
– one way streaming
media programs
- Juice
– Urban Entertainment
- Podget
– broadcast aggregator
- Amarok – online music used
with Linux
- Media Monkey – free online music
Typical
webcasting
formats used for
business include:
- Presentation
of information to employees or customers.
- Webinars:
one-way online
seminars or workshops that are presented from
a central location.
- Online
Training provided by specialized companies of use in-house
training departments to provide educational services to employees.
- Workshops
presented to participants on how to complete whatever the
topic of the workshop may be.
- Distance
Learning presented to participants that is typically a lecture
based college course that requires no input from participants.
- Seminars
on how to conduct research given by a guest speaker who is in
another location than the participants.
Additional
webcasting
formats uses include:
- Product
launches – informing employees of new products
- Software
demonstrations – training for employees or clients
- Focus
groups – for employees or others brought in to provide reaction
to a new product
- Brainstorming
sessions - employees
- Staff
meetings – for staff members that need to be informed about the what
transpired during the meeting
- New
employee orientation – when scattered in several locations
- New
product training – for employees or the sales department
- Training
sessions – for employees or clients
- Distance
learning – for clients and employees
- Sales
presentations – to clients
- Annual
shareholder meetings
For
additional video
webcasting
issues, such as the webcasting
formats section here, please check out the
related topics; live
webcasting, webcast
services, streaming
media webcast,
webcast company
and webcasting software.
If
you are looking for a little more
hands-on
type information, take a peek at the online video sharing,
video
streaming
information, media
streaming, video
teleconference and how
to stream video.
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