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Worcester College of Technology

Media Streaming of off air recording. Worcester College of Technology. Dave Kings Deputy Communications and Systems Manager. How, Why, What?. For those here that talk to people in my college. We introduced new Study Centres with no video playback facilities. It was a project oversight.

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Worcester College of Technology

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  1. Media Streaming of off air recording Worcester College of Technology Dave Kings Deputy Communications and Systems Manager

  2. How, Why, What? For those here that talk to people in my college We introduced new Study Centres with no video playback facilities It was a project oversight Or.....

  3. Doh!

  4. Why? • Simple, at the time no one was thinking about video collections.

  5. I have a cunning plan! We have lots of PCs....What if we digitised our recordings?

  6. Techie bit

  7. Hardware Overview • 2 x HP DL380 G3’s running MS Server 2003 • 1 x Mac + EyeTV Software + Tuner • 1 x PC running MS XP & Expression Encoder • 1 x Osprey Video Capture Card • 1 x VCR/DVD Player • Freeview Box

  8. Server Setup Configuration • Servers running a DFS • MS Windows Media Streaming Services • NLB’d

  9. TV Feed and Recordings • iMac • Elgato DTT Tuner In my experience this has proven stable and reliable in comparison with other setups

  10. Encoder • Originally Windows Media Encoder (free) • Now MS Expression Encoder(costs a small amount but can give SilverLight output, chaptering, overlays etc)

  11. Transmission • Mostly Unicast • Tested 100+ unicast streams. • Multicast streams also viable, but no end user control in setup. • Wrapper (doesn’t work well on a Mac)

  12. Live TV • Weeks of telephone calls and emails. Don’t get me started about the TV Licensing company. • Ofcom finally confirms its ok

  13. Live TV • Freeview box connect to my VCR, VCR connected to my Osprey card, Osprey Card connected to my elbow..... • Expression Encoder captures and re-encodes the stream sending it to the Windows Media Streaming server

  14. Recording requests • All in one homemade EPG and request application that resides on our portal

  15. The future • IIS 7 + Smooth Streaming + Adaptive Encoding • Silverlight media players • End user control for Multicast setup • HD • Sky

  16. Questions?

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