The FilmApart SyndicatorThe FilmApart Syndicator (FS) is a video blogging tool designed to serve serialized video programs to clients via web browsers and video content aggregators.
FS provides an infrastructure for a text and video blog for a single program with multiple episodes. The FS does not host the content within it's own system, but provides the RSS feeds and embedded blog web pages that allow clients to access the program's files hosted on public storage facilities like The Internet Archive, YouTube, and torrent swarms (the only use case scenario where the file is served from the FS system).
Video formats served by FS are transcoded from a single upload to The Internet Archive. The Archive identifier of this file is entered into the FS's database. The file is downloaded to the system, transcoded into all formats, torrents are generated of each individual file, and the files are upoaded to the Archive. A version of the file suitable for upload to YouTube will be generated and transferred to the YouTube system to provide for embedded playback in a browser page.
The blogging engine has a node structure so that blog entries may be either plain text or embedded media formats.
