Use Mediasite to share your on-demand presentations as podcasts, audio-only presentations in MP3 format, with your audience. Users can download podcasts from the Management Portal, My Mediasite, and catalogs to view them at any time on mobile devices and desktop computers. Your audience can also subscribe to podcast feeds.
Overview
Step 1: Enable podcast on folder, presentation, template, or schedule. You will enable podcasts at the folder level or on a presentation, template, or schedule as part of the delivery settings.
Disabling the podcast
feature (clearing the Podcast check box) AFTER content
has already been generated will cause theMP3 file associated with the
presentation as a podcast to be deleted. The podcast can be re-generated by
enabling the feature again.
Step 2: Add an RSS feed: You will add a new feed on a folder and as presentations are added and converted to podcasts, they will be added to the feed.
Step 3: Share podcasts: When podcast is enabled on a folder, you can send e-mail invitations with links that your audience can use to subscribe to the feed. You can download a podcast from Management Portal on a presentation’s summary page and share it with your audience. When publishing an on-demand presentation to a video collection (catalog, showcase, channel), you can allow users to download from it.
Overview of Setting up Podcasts
Disabling the podcast
feature (clearing the Podcast check box) AFTER content
has already been generated will cause the associated MP3 files to be deleted
from Mediasite. However, you can re-generate the deleted content by enabling the
feature again.
When you enable podcast content on a folder, you are enabling the podcast feature on presentations, schedules, and presentations in the folder. Likewise, removing content is disabling the feature. When new presentations are added to the folder, podcasts (MP3 files) will be created.
To enable podcast for a folder:
1. Right-click the folder to which you want to add the content, click Manage Content > Add Delivery.
2. Select the Podcast check box and select the MP3 quality (encoding rate) from the drop-down list. The higher the rate at which the MP3 files are encoded the higher the quality during playback. However, this also increases the size of the files.
3. Click Save.
Enable podcast content on folder
When you enable podcast on a presentation, once it is recorded and published, an MP3 file will be generated. If the podcast job does not complete successfully, you can resubmit it.
To enable podcast content on a presentation:
1. Navigate to the presentation you want. On the presentation’s summary page, click Edit > Delivery tab.
2. Select the Podcast check box and select the MP3 quality (encoding rate) from the drop-down list. The higher the rate at which the MP3 files are encoded the higher the quality during playback. However, this also increases the size of the files.
3. Click Save.
Enable podcast generation on presentation’s summary page
You will follow similar steps to enable
podcasting on a template or schedule. For more information, see Adding presentation
templates in the Mediasite Configuration Guide and Add
schedule.
You will add RSS feeds on folders. Presentations within the specified folder will show up in the feed once the MP3 file has been encoded. Once the feed is available, you can send an email invitation for it to your users. Users can then subscribe to the RSS feed.
To create a new feed:
1. Click Publishing > Feeds > Add New and specify the podcast’s details:
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Settings |
Details |
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Feed Type |
•Select Audio Podcast from the drop-down list. |
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Replace the existing podcast/vodcast delivery on feed presentations |
Select to overwrite the podcast delivery settings for presentations that will be included in the podcast RSS feed. • |
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Feed Folder |
•Click Select a folder and choose the folder containing the presentations that will be converted to MP3 files. |
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Include subfolders |
•Click to include all presentations located in the top folder and in subfolders in the feed.
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Add podcast delivery to presentations that are added to this feed |
Select this check box to ensure presentations added to feed have podcast delivery enabled. This feature is enabled by default. • |
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Name |
Enter a name for the feed that will help you and other users identify it easily. |
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Owner Name/Owner Email |
•These values will be pre-filled with the username you logged in with and the email address associated with your profile. However, you can update these values as needed. |
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Description |
Enter a description that will help your audience easily identify your content. |
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Copyright |
•Enter the copyright for the podcast. |
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Language |
•Select the language used in your podcast from the drop-down list. |
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Categories |
•Select up to three categories for your podcast. At least one category is required. |
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Explicit |
•Select from the drop-down list whether this podcast contains explicit content. |
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Artwork |
•Click Select a file and add the image you want to use for the podcast. A square image, at least 1400 x 1400 pixels, is required. The image you upload will be resized to fit the size requirements if needed. Artwork is required. |
2. Click Save. In some cases, a confirmation message will appear. Click OK.
Add new feed for podcast-enabled folder
Send an e-mail invitation for the podcast feed that contains its title, description, and RSS Feed URL. Users will copy the enclosed RSS feed URL into their aggregator or podcasting client software to subscribe to the podcast.
By default, Mediasite sends
emails using the email server and address specified during Mediasite deployment.
However, if you want to use the email client on your machine to send out an
invitation, click Send mail using preferred email
client on the email form. You can also customize the default text
in the e-mail invitation. For more information, see the Mediasite
Configuration Guide.
To send an e-mail invitation for a podcast feed:
1. Click Publishing > Feeds and select the feed you want.
2. On the feed’s summary page, click Send Invite. When the email form appears, update the information as needed.
3. Enter the email addresses in the To and From fields making sure to separate email addresses with a semi-colon.
4. Click Send.
Feed Email Invitation
To download a presentation as a podcast (MP3) file using Management Portal:
1. Navigate to the presentation you want. On the presentation’s Summary page, click Download MP3.
2. Save the file and navigate to the download location.
Presentation summary page, download presentation as MP3 file
To download podcasts, users must have
permission for the “Download Mediasite Content” Portal resource. Also, the
“Allow Presentation Download” feature must be enabled in catalog, channel, or
showcase settings for users to be able download portable presentations from the
application. See the help file for the video collection to learn more about
downloading podcasts.
CAUTION: Once you download a
podcast, it is outside of the Mediasite system. Therefore, the security features
available with live and on-demand presentations are not available with
podcasts.
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