lmtw.com―CCIPTV Live Podcaster, the world's first Live Podcaster is released
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26th April 2006, the CCIPTV Live Podcaster was officially released by streaming media development team of CCIPTV. It was the upgraded version of the CCIPTV. The software is totally free and users can download it by signing in the www.CCIPTV.com.

It is the world’s first Live Podcaster software and is a new generation of P2P streaming media distribution and playing system. “Instant Start，Global Broadcast” is the slogan of this software which means build instantly and play anywhere. Meanwhile, this software can realize the function of podcasting by sending the local audio or video files, signals from television card, compression card, collection card, PC camera, microphone over the Internet, which allows users to set up their own Internet TV station only on a common PC.

At the same time, CCIPTV Live Podcaster is a powerful media player. It supports the media file formats such as rm、rmvb、mpeg、mpg、mpeg4、avi、wmv、wma、mp3、DVD and network TV program. It also allows the conversion between the different files.

The vogue concept of Podcaster over the Internet is treated as a symbolic product of web2.0 by those professionals. However, the website which is familiar by the public is in the Click-and-play form, the whole processes including the sound recording and the file uploading, are very complex. The existence of CCIPTV Live Podcaster eliminates the above-mentioned complex processes where the user just needs to have a computer that has internet connection and a microphone in order to become a podcaster.

Background Introduction:

CCIPTV streaming media development team is the earlier team in China that performs the research and development on P2P streaming media. In the year 2005 March, CCIPTV network television was released. However, due to the policies and copyright problems, CCIPTV wasn’t promoted thoroughly. One year later, CCIPTV released another new version which is meaningful. It changes the common style of network television and enters into the field of podcaster, which it came out with an entirely new concept: the world’s first “Live Podcaster”.