Here comes the age of Pod-casting

In the fall of 2005, just about the same time as I started talking to my colleagues what could be possibly done to implement my idea, we began to see Universities and Museums' experimenting the use of "i-Pod" for providing educational content. Naturally, we too turned into this direction and started exploring the possibilities of using pod-casting technology. But at that time, or even now at this moment, most of these experimenting services are restricted to audio files only and nothing is fancy, with most cases, as it lacks moving images.

After many hours of discussions among ourselves, we reached a conclusion as following. We, a research institute of the Keio University, as an intermediary agent between museums and visitors/general public should develop a web platform where museums can start video-cast of educational content easily and visitors/general public could come, view the materials and download them easily for private viewing on their own MP4 players. So we developed a new platform that we currently call the "VOLUMEONE" (based on FFMPEG technology for the Beta version) that enables various movie files encoded automatically to FLV without much difficulties.