Media week

Spent most of the week migrating our multimedia (about 343 projects) from a home made Flash player we got via Zach Wise over to Castfire.com.

Still a fair amount of work to do – the process involved downloading all of the media assets, renaming them, pulling all the metadata from a separate RSS feed, combining it all on a spreadsheet and then reuploading. Fun.

The best thing about Castfire is the API and the ability to slice-and-dice feeds. Castfire can feed out video and audio in RSS, ASX and XSPF. Below is the share-this-video embed version of the player: