HOW TO VIEW AND PLAY VODCASTS/PODCASTS

HOW TO VIEW AND PLAY VODCASTS/PODCASTS

Watch VODcasts on your Computer

You have two options for watching the material on your computer:

1. To watch the VODcasts online, make sure you have Flash Player 8.0 or higher installed. Click on the "Click to view the Vodcast now!" link on the main page. This will launch a window with the video. If a window does not open, please make sure if you have a pop-up blocker installed, disable it temporarily.

2. To watch the VODcasts offline, please download the VODcast file and uncompress the .ZIP file (right click and choose Extract...). You will now have a .M4V file. You will need Quicktime 6.0 or higher installed to play this file. Click here to download Quicktime now. Once installed, open the VODcast with Quicktime, and view as you would a normal video.

Subscribing to Podcasts/Vodcasts:

1. Download and install iTunes 4.9 or higher

2 . Select and copy the Podcast Feed (RSS) URL offered by the publisher. Open iTunes, go to the Advanced menu, choose Subscribe to Podcast..., paste the Podcast Feed URL, and click on OK.

3. Select a title, click on GET if it's not loaded yet. Loading takes just one second.

4 . Pause, Skip, Enjoy. You're in control. New titles will show up automatically from now on.

5. Your Podcasts should be automatically synched with your iPod. If they are not, please check your podcast settings in iTunes.

Watch VODcasts on your iPod

Make sure you have the iPod with video support and iTunes 6 or higher installed. Subscribe to VODcast feed (as described above). This will automatically download all the VODcasts as they are released. By default, iTunes automatically syncs all episodes to your iPod. If you would like to load only a specific VODcast to your iPod, click on the "Download the Vodcast for your Video iPod®" link. Once downloaded, extract the VODcast from the .zip file, and open with iTunes. This will load the VODcast to the "Movies" section of iTunes. By default iTunes will copy the video over to your iPod. If it does not, please make sure that iTunes is set to synchronize videos with your iPod.
Enjoy! The screen is very crisp, and don't forget to buy the TV-cable so you can show all videos on a TV-screen.

If you do not have a video iPod or iTunes:

There are numerous video/mp3 players on the market. Please see the manufacturers instructions on how to load a video/mp3 on to your player.

Tips and Troubleshooting:

If you hear audio, but don't see video, go to the Edit menu and select Show Artwork. The Artwork browser appears in the left bottom of the main window.

Still no video? The video might be encoded with the latest codec, called H.264. This codec offers very high quality video. You need QuickTime 7 to watch these videos..

If you click on the video, a seperate video player window opens. Our personal experience is that this is the ideal way to view the videos. Click in the video to pause, double-click to resume. Control-click (right-click) allows you to scale the video and play it full-screen. You can edit the default playback behaviour in the iTunes preferences. Random click in the time-bar or drag the playhead to instantly skip to other parts in the movie. If you stop or close the movie and reopen, iTunes will start playing where you stopped.

System Requirements: Quicktime+iTunes 6.0 or above, Flash Player 8 or above