1. ResearchChannel: Delivering Realism
Tutorial: Video on the Net
M. Wellings
L. Ross

2. What is Streaming? Continuous, smooth delivery of media
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3. Software System Suites
Market Leaders
Windows Media
QuickTime
Real Media
Others
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4. Compression Types MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 Real Media Indeo
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5. Compression Types M-JPEG (Motion JPEG) CinePak Sorenson iHDTV DV
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6. Decision Criteria The Intended Audience Bandwidth available Content
Hardware
Network
Bandwidth available
Content
Cost
Results expected
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7. Live Webcast Decisions:
Encode on-site
Encode off-site
Satellite
Microwave
Web
TV Transmitter
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8. Video On Demand Garbage in, Garbage out
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9. STEP ONE: CAPTURE STATION
Build
Buy
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10. STEP TWO: HOSTING YOUR DATA
Disk capacity
Number of concurrent streams
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11. File Size vs Streaming Bandwidth
1 Hour
56Kbps
420KB
4.2MB
25.2MB
100Kbps
750KB
7.5MB
45MB
300Kbps
2.25MB
22.5MB
135MB
1.5Mbps
11.25MB
112.5MB
675MB
6Mbps
450MB
2.7GB
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12. STEP THREE: Design the Web Site
Get out your checkbook
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13. STEP FOUR: Web Statistics
Many tools:
WebTrends ™
Lariat ™
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14. LOW-END CAPTURE
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15. MPEG-2 VOD
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16. MPEG-4 VOD
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17. VOD: The Process/ The Pitfalls
Lab experience: low costs vs high quality
Media management
Handling awkward multigigabit files
Massive disk space requirement
Low cost for large disk capacity
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