Podcasts
Podcasts – Ipod Broadcast – have been a request by Francesco Gennai. What he would like is streamed content: similar to youTube, though his example was more serious in the subjects offered. Live streaming will be a problem on OpenVMS since the IO system doesn’t support it, not the way that is required. But streaming files to a browser should be possible, so “Canned content”. I like Mark’s expression :).
So I set up a small environment, put some files to be retrieved, and created a small, very basic HTML file to access the files. These are indeed retrieved – but not in streaming mode. Not in the ususal set-up of the webserver, anyway.
So I followed a recommendation, by Robert Atkinson, to give podcastgen a try. For security reasons, I started to try it out on the secured site, but that implies a few problems I haven’t solved yet. You can read on the configuration and the problems on the podcast entry on the VMS wiki . and in the WASD mailing list archives – whenever my comments are accepted (it may lead to a problem – the Spam filter did complain for a number of reasons).
but once the problems are solved, there might be streaming video from this site, one day 🙂