A vidéoblog , or videoblogist ( Video blog , vlog in English), is a type of Blog used primarily to diffuse vidéos being able to be commented or not by its visitors. The expressions Baladodiffusion video , video balado, video podcast, Videocast and Vodcast are also used.

Utility

The vidéoblogs for the majority created and are maintained by some amateurs and professionals of the video treatment for the Web who document their daily life through vidéos commented on. They are more often the fact of individuals (personal) that companies. Some are maintained by only one author, whereas others are animated by several amateurs liking to carry out small films.

Certain vidéoblogueurs publish one or more vidéos per week. The technical formats of the vidéos published are very few: it is a question above all of drawing up an astute relationship between the actual weight of the vidéos, the standards of compression, the possibilities offered by the navigators to read a video, the preoccupations with loading or a preloading of the elements, the choice of the reader of video contents, and the capacity for the Net surfer of correctly reading the contents according to its connection Internet.

Vidéos and Technologies

There exist various formats at present technically making it possible to diffuse video for the Web through a videoblogist. Two methods of diffusion are offered to the vidéoblogueurs: the diffusion of video uninterrupted (Streaming) or basic diffusion in differed flow (by baladodiffusion).

Some technologies are recommended for the diffusion of contents for videoblogist:

  • MPEG-4 (and its derivatives H.264, XviD and DivX)
  • 3gp for cellphones
  • Macromedia Flash (.flv, for the diffusion uninterrupted (Streaming) because of its capacities of compression and of the very strong diffusion of the Plugiciel Flash with navigators Internet)

The Baladodiffusion is also a factor contributing to the popularization of the videoblogists. The format RSS and the sites and software which exploits it (as well as the progressive increase in the flows of connection to Internet) make gradually increase the number of videoblogists on the Fabric.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the Council for the conversion of the vidéos bound for a videoblog

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