Like video SHOUTcast or something

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on May 23, 2006 - 9:26pm.
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Remember when Winamp was counterculture and cool, and Shoutcast made streaming audio possible to anyone?

The Participatory Culture Foundation's Broadcast Machine lets you do that and more with video. Not that I personally have a bunch of videos but I'm considering fooling around with it. What do you think?

Installs easily.

  • Written in PHP, runs on most websites
  • No MySQL setup required, just ftp a folder

Everything you need to broadcast video online.

  • Creates internet TV channels (video RSS feeds)
  • Describe and tag your videos
  • Supports Creative Commons licenses
  • Public and private channels
  • Personal and community channels
  • Innovative one-step Bittorrent publishing (or just direct link to hosted videos)
  • Optional Bittorrent "server seeding"

For your viewers, everything is easy.

  • Browse videos on a web page, by channel or tag
  • Easy BitTorrent downloads for Mac and Windows
  • Users can subscribe to your channels with Democracy and watch videos like a TiVo.