Throughout news8austin.com you'll see a camera icon associated to stories which have video elements. To watch one particular story, click on the camera and a pop up window will show the story.
You'll find a play button within stories as well. Clicking on it will also play that one story.
Add stories to your video cart
Clicking on the shopping cart icon allows you to accumulate multiple stories in your video cart for free viewing. Within stories the add to cart button does as well.
The news8cast video cart listing your selected stories will appear in the right column. Add two or more stories to your cart and the button will appear.
When you're ready to create your own newscast just click the build button and you'll be taken to the news8cast engine.
How to build your own newscast
The build your own news8cast feature allows you to view your selected stories in whatever order you want.
Your selected stories will appear on the left side of the box. Simply add them to the right side of the news8cast tool with directional arrows in any order you desire.
When you're ready to watch, just click on the button to watch your customized news8cast.
Detailed instructions for building your own news8cast are listed below the build tool on that page.
Technical Tidbits
News 8 Video is geared toward broadband users, providing a bit rate of at least 300K using Windows Media* format. To download a copy of the latest version of Microsoft Windows Media Player click on the link below.
If you've recently installed Windows Media Player and our video clips have stopped playing, go into the menu item Tools --> Options --> Network, and uncheck UDP.
Firefox and Opera users should not have any difficulty with Microsoft Windows Media Player. Check the websites www.mozilla.com and www.opera.com for regular updates regarding Windows Media Player compatibility.
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associated to stories which have video elements. To watch one particular story, click on the camera and a pop up window will show the story.
within stories as well. Clicking on it will also play that one story.
allows you to accumulate multiple stories in your video cart for free viewing. Within stories the add to cart button 
does as well.
The news8cast video cart listing your selected stories will appear in the right column. Add two or more stories to your cart and the 
button will appear.
Your selected stories will appear on the left side of the box. Simply add them to the right side of the news8cast tool with directional arrows in any order you desire.
button to watch your customized news8cast.
