in Collaboration with JINR and “Dubna” University Proposal of a City Scientific and Educational Center of the Multimedia Technologies A.V. Chepigin, V.A. Butyaev, E.N Cheremisina, V.V. Korenkov, Y.A. Kryukov, E.G. Nikonov NEC-2003, Varna 18 september, 2003

Prerequisite of the project Research and development, technical support, expert analysis and application of multimedia and telecommunication solutions in different industries Realizable project of the town’s educational communication network Necessarily of the application of the latest and modern multimedia technology to research and education sphere Topicality of the creation of photo and video structured archives of Dubna University and JINR with powerful components of retrieval and access Requirement in reduction of priceson telephony and multimedia at the expense of integrating this services into local and global networks “Media Center ©”

1: Development of the systems which assists in collecting, indexing, storing, retrieval, access on demand toward the media materials 2: Creation and processing of media materials 3: Videoconferencing and Internet – broadcasting 4: Development of the technical projects connected with the multimedia sphere 5: Research and education activity Main directions Primary intent is a supporting research activity by way out to a new level of visual representation of scientific, research and experimental data at JINR and large scientific collaborations. “Media Center ©”

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Short hardware specification: Intel Pentium Mhz, RAM 512 Mb, Total AV-Array 400GByte DVD recorder Pioneer A05 (DVD-R/DVD-RW technology) System for nonlinear Real-Time DV video editing – Pinnacle PRO-ONE RTDV Soft: Adobe Premier 6.5, Hollywood FX 5.5 and similar The studio, located in LIT JINR, gives a wide opportunity for a full process of video edition. Based for the present on two high-performance workstations using for Real Time DV editing, DVD authoring and premastering hardware and SVHS professional VCR, digital video cameras to produce scientific, eduactional and demo video content DV Lab Studio Routine practice of multi-video cameras working process Multi-layer and multi-cameras non-linear video editing Full process of DVD video creation:  Video editing  Content authoring  Premastering of a fully compatible DVD product

Technical solutions in implementation stage A videoconferencing system between Physical Dep. of Moscow State University (Moscow) and a branch of SINP MSU in Dubna has been developed in the context of supporting education process by using multimedia technologies, distant education and savings on costs This will allow one to organize a lecture with students and post-graduates in the branch by Moscow lecturers. And of course, these lectures will be taken by remote auditorium at the same time, as if they being in Moscow. Network environment – Internet and Virtual Room Videoconferencing System (VRVS). IP achievement has been chosen, because it is cheap and easy realizable

Technical specifications High performance workstation 2 LCD Projectors 1 PTZ Sony EVI-D100 video camera 2 panoramic video cameras Panasonic 1 document camera Wolf Vision VZ-5 Active sound system DB Tech. M160 Set of switching equipment for all kind of video and audio standards Hardware realization for videoconferencing system of such manufacturers as Polycom, Tandberg or Sony, was not chosen, because they do not provide flexible utilization for every component depending on different situations Network requirement is: Internet connection with 1 Mbps minimal speed Wide functional capabilities enable to realize presentations and cinemas demonstrations with stereo sound Lecture hall in Dubna

Real Networks: Real Video&Audio player Microsoft: Windows Media Player Apple: QuickTime Player Internet Broadcasting Videoconferencing is not very convenient, because the user should install any special applications or even devices for receiving audio and video data. In this case the internet broadcasting in different formats is more preferrable. The routine practice allows one to make its good use in next situations: 1.Scientific forums and conferences 2.Distribution educational media content 3.Telecast any actions for unlimited audience all over the world Available formats: Real Audio&Video, Windows Media and QuickTime Operational experience allows one to configurate the broadcast server as required. And user should have only a software application, in most cases integrated in the operating system installed on PC, or available as a free downloadable software, like:

IP Telephony and related services One of the line of investigations is IP telephony services. This direction has been developed in frames of the JINR networking infrastructure and the city educational local area network. This will provide using a way for wide range of services, which are very simplify and reduce the price of the communications between scientists and other people. Advantages: Integration of voice, video and data traffic in one communication link Integrated abilities of audio conferencing and video conferencing, using specialized IP phone devices Centralized direction, tuning, statistics gathering and monitoring Large quantity for users to select only necessary services and benefits Wide potentials for evolution and integrating of advanced services and technologies Additional functions Access control via IP devices, connected to the network, including video keeping look-out

Distant education via videoconferencing Interactive education process Instantaneous feed-back with trainees Reduction of prices and availability for trainee  Multimedia courseware  Audio and video representations of lectures  Laboratorial distant training  Demo and training aids for lightening the education process Multimedia and videoconferencing in education Sets of specifications for media content and educational process have been worked out. The main purposes:

Structured scientific and educational Web-portal, being in a stage of development, will be represented with numerous services, such as: Video on demand and relatives services System of storing, retrieval and access for video archive of University “Dubna” realized as a part of SQL based library’s information system MARK has been tested All the media content describing in compliance with bibliographical regulations with event-trigger and time data binding. Files do not download on the user’s PC – only data stream transferred. ÆVideo on demand Æ Video and photo library Æ News services Æ Scientific and education media materials Æ Hyper text information

Demonstration Every foundation plant of JINR ought to has such demo video in sight Example of the clip, made for LIT’s Linux claster “Media Center ©”