Can't see the screencasts?

I can foresee already I’m going to get a few emails as to why people cannot see my screencasts. I capture the video first in lossless AVI video format—each min is about a GB worth of space—not very user friendly. I could compress it in any number of formats but nothing can touch the TRUE mp4 compression of the H.264 codec. I go from a GB/minute to a MB/minute with no loss in video quality. This is nearly unheard of until now.

The H.264 is used by Apple to show off their High Definition movie trailers. And since now iTunes 5, which is the premier platform people use to subscribe to podcasts, ships with the final release of Quicktime 7 it’s a perfect match which I and 90% of the others using video on iTunes take advantage of.

So you will need, at the very least, the latest version of Quicktime to run these videos. But if you don’t have iTunes I suggest you download it instead as not only will it install Quicktime for you but it will make your podcast subscriptions so much easier. Now you’ll never have to go to their site and manually download the podcasts again. iTunes will update and download the latest podcast for you.

But even if you choose not to download and subscribe through iTunes I have enabled an easy direct download link on each podcast. You will however, need Quicktime 7 for any video.