Video podcast feed from EDtalks
I have spent a bit of time trying to get the video podcast feed sorted for our new EDtalks service. Getting the RSS feed for phpmotion modified to include the enclosure element was reasonably straight forward, but finding the best format for the mp4 files has taken a bit of time. We wanted an mp4 format that would be reasonable quality, good file size, be ipod compatible, and would also provide reasonable quality flv files when converted through ffmpeg by phpmotion. In the end the following settings are what we are using to export the files from Final Cut:
And here is the flv version of a video with these settings:
and a downloadable mp4 version.