What is a vodcast?: Difference between revisions

The video chat service from Google, Google+ Hangouts, offers a unique suite of features and apps that help facilitate and enhance the vodcast experience, especially when in a group. The service allows the operator of the Hangout to select individual video feeds, livestream the Hangout via Hangouts On Air, open a Q&A that allows watchers to submit questions that the operator can choose to have the group answer or not, and immediate upload of the Hangout to YouTube after the broadcast has ended.<ref>http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html</ref> Hangouts also offer features to the individual users of the Hangout, like the Lower Third bar that acts as a nameplate to help easily identify the participants.<ref>http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/index.html</ref>

===Software===

Software is needed for the capturing, editing, transcoding or converting, and playback of the video and audio.  The five primary operating systems, Windows; OSX; Linux; Android; and iOS, each have a number of open-source and proprietary softwares for each of these operations.