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UW MediaWeb Project

UW MediaWeb Project Jim DeRoest Director Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel Assistant Director, UW Computing & Communications deroest@cac.washington.edu 206 543-6343 What We’re Up To ResearchChannel Consortium/UWTV - Exploring digital convergence and educational outreach.

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UW MediaWeb Project

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  1. UW MediaWeb Project Jim DeRoest Director Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel Assistant Director, UW Computing & Communications deroest@cac.washington.edu 206 543-6343

  2. What We’re Up To • ResearchChannel Consortium/UWTV - Exploring digital convergence and educational outreach. • National Echostar and CATV to over 5 million homes • International VoD and live streams – I2 Abilene • First cinema quality HD over IP I2 Oct ’99 • First live 5 stream news broadcast NAB Apr ’00 • 200Mb HD Video Conference I2 Oct ‘01 • KEXP – UW and EMP collaboration exploring digital radio. • Uncompressed 1.4Mb live stream. • Real time web playlist generation. • World music format – DJ choice. • Faculty, Staff, Student, Clinical, Affiliate • HD Surgery Pavilion, Catalyst Project, etc

  3. Managing Content • Problem • Large media libraries - multiple sources/formats: • RC/UWTV broadcast assets, KEXP audio library • UW Library, Faculty, Student, Staff, Clinical • Affiliate projects • Asset capture, encoding, metadata generation • Multiple Consumer Interfaces • RC/UWTV post production access • KEXP DJ access via Audiovault • General Viewers/Listeners • Distributed asset management • Access/Rights Controls

  4. UW MediaWeb Project • 18 month technology/requirements review • Buy, build, both, call it quits? • Vendor products • Proprietary closed systems • 70% solution • Consumer specific interfaces • Created prototype during review process • Let analysts play with toys while we shopped around • Pluggable, Scalable, Standards based architecture • Decision to go with prototype • Analysts created a really neat toy!

  5. UW MediaWeb Architecture

  6. UW MediaWeb Core Services • Asset Store HSM Based (HPSS) • Hierarchy of online/nearline multi-vendor hardware. • Gigabit and fiber channel interconnects. • Block I/O stream to servers (smoke and mirrors) • Distributed/Redundant environment • Asset Metadata Service • SQL, Directory, Imbedded objects • Stream Re-Director • Maintains asset locality state • Moves/Expires assets from stream caches • Re-direct asset requests to target server/interface

  7. UW MediaWeb Feeds • Video • Airtime/Dubtime to 50Mb MPEG2 i-frame base • Virage Video Logger metadata generation • Audio • CD ripping stations to raw audio base • Metadata map CDDB sites (Muse, AMG, …) • DJ metadata • May use Virage – Speech/Text Transcode from base formats as needed

  8. UW MediaWeb Metadata • Schema – How rich can we afford • Consumer Interviews • Standards – Dublin Core, MPEG7 • Vendor (Muse, AMG, Louth playlists, …) • Draft submitted for review by I2-VidMid • Access/Rights controls • Every vendor seems to have their own • Authentication Time – NetID Pubcookie, Shibboleth, … • Imbedded – Honored by clients Dare we count on consistency? • Metadata Objects • SQL (base), LDAP (reflection), Imbedded objects/methods

  9. UW MediaWeb Delivery • Streaming Servers • Standard file system or API required Stream initiated as first blocks arrive to local cache Tape, disk, OS and network speed vs. hybrid file systems • Selectable stream stub support First 30 seconds of clip to hide robot mount time • Low bit rate (no MPEG1) Quicktime, Real, Windows Media • High bit rate Windows Media – KEXP 1.4Mb live stream Optivision – RC 5.6Mb live stream to remote sites MPEG2 – Concurrent Computer Xstreme 5.6Mb MPEG4 – Looking at Videocharger – interface issues HD – In-house (>270Mb), vendor lower bit rates

  10. UW MediaWeb Status • Prototype operational with simple search • Geographically separated/mirrored server environment • Video: RC/UWTV content (~700 hrs MPEG2, lower bit rates) • Audio: Sample audio • Refining schema • Object experiments • Imbedded controls (MPEG7) • Reviewing large vendor schemas • Building feed systems (+35,000 disc KEXP library) • Defining faculty/student mgt (expiration, quotas, …) • Evaluating other large content requests • Ongoing evaluation of streaming servers • Expanding/Scaling/Benchmarking architecture

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