RSS Pod Casting and a Flash alternative

The Coast Guard was looking for ways to offer Video Pod casts to students as well as an online Video directory. Because the CG computers will not allow iTunes we needed an additional delivery for online video that read RSS. To achieve this we added an extra line to the Pod cast XML that specified an alternate FLV file and I created a flash player to read the RSS and play the video.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>IST Cast</title>
<flashFile>videofile.flv</flashFile>