I've been experimenting with the best way to provide higher quality videos via the Internet and I took my old college's end of the semester show (called SMASH) and made it as a video blog, RSS feed. The files are large, but the point of the RSS feed is so you can download it in the background.

If you use iTunes as your aggregator, all you have to do is CLICK HERE. If you use another video-ready aggregator such as FireAnt, you'll need to create a new feed/channel and copy/paste the url: http://www.getsmashed.com/getsmashed_itunes.xml.

Although QT 7 is required, everything is 100% free and should work across the platforms (if it doesn't let me know). I have over 20 hours of video shows and will be adding more shortly.

You should try out streaming with Flash. That's what i use. Also it's what Google Video uses.

Flash isn't "higher quality video."

This is an excellent idea.

You can get perfect quality with flash. It all depends on how you import your footage into the program. It ends up being a fraction of the size as well.

I didn't want to stream it. Then people that can't sustain the 90 KB/S wouldn't be able to see it. I'd haven't yet seen a flash online video that could do 30 FPS 640x480 video @ 90 KB/s and look halfway decent. If you've got an example, show me and I'll consider it for the web interface.

... and thanks for the feedback, BTW. I really think technologically and cost-factor-wise we are right around the corner from getting good SD and high def video programming from the Internet. For me, that's really exciting.

Another requirement I want for the video is that it can easily be presented fullscreen so the viewer can move back from the computer an relax. I want it to feel as if they're watching a DVD on their computer (albeit highly compressed). Is that possible with the Flash video player? I'm not so good with Flash.

Flash is getting to that point. But it isnt quite there yet unless you download the files themselves which will be huge. Google is working on that. I think the deciding factor is when internet speeds gets faster. Apple, however, has achieved the full screen viewing already for their trailers. I have a MacBook Pro and it has a feature in "Front Row" where it accesses something similar to an RSS feed of all the trailers on apple.com and I am instantly able to view them from a gallery on my desktop full screen, full sound. And I think they are in HD as well. They deffenately use the quicktime codec. I am not sure how they do it though.