Broadcast Machine lets you publish your video online easily
In the midst of a Internet TV movement, I'm happy to report the Participatory Culture group has released their first beta of Broadcast Machine. Broadcast Machine is an integrated upload, download, bittorrent, and gallery web application that is simple to install and run, letting you upload your own video shows and share them with anyone online. The folks behind BM are also working on a desktop video player, dubbed DTV, which I'm guessing will be an auto downloader/cataloger that works like podcasting does (only for video in this case).
I setup a test site on my own server, using Creative Commons video as a source, and it took all of ten minutes to deploy the php package and add an item. The app looks great for a first beta and I didn't have any problems with the process. If you've been video blogging, have a broadband connection, and are looking for ways to distribute video yourself, check out Broadcast Machine. It's a great little package.
I hope they change their name - before it catches on.
BM?
Posted by: Daniel McAndrew | May 23, 2005 at 04:19 PM
But think of the marketing...
BM: Not just a technology, it's a movement!
Posted by: Matt Haughey | May 23, 2005 at 09:55 PM
Let's avoid that problem with the initials by taking a hint from TiVo and adding some vowels...how about BroMach? BroMa? BoMa?
Phil Ken Sebben: "Ha! Ha! ....vowel movement."
Posted by: hmmm.... | May 23, 2005 at 10:07 PM
Yeah, DTV is an RSS reader for new videos, exactly as you guessed. You can download the latest build from sourceforge, it's already very slick. They're looking for progrmamers to help finish the job.
Posted by: David Jacobs | May 25, 2005 at 06:24 AM
has anyone actually used BM to build a site? I d/l'd and installed it but have yet to get it to work. before you can upload video files to 'feed' the system it wants you to install a "helper" app. Everytime I try to install that (on several different machines) i get some sort of 16-bit dos error message.
i would like to see a demonstration site. even the site where you d/l the s/w doesn't have any demo videos to d/l. strange...
Posted by: Lighthouse | May 31, 2005 at 08:12 AM
I tried it too, and it worked somewhat.
The only thing that doesnt work is the rss feed. I cant get it to play my videos in democracy viewer.
Posted by: Chris Morris | March 01, 2006 at 12:26 PM