Bill,

These resources from Juan are great (though I believe Final Cut Pro Server
may be end of life), just wanted to chime in that I know you're not alone,
lots of libraries looking for solutions here, too. My institution,
Northwestern University, is hoping to partner with Indiana University and
several others to build a solution, currently code-named "Variations on
Video" https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VOV/Variations+on+Video ,
though we won't know about our pending grant proposal until the fall, not
sure how that would work with your timeline. Components of VoV will
utilize Hydra/Blacklight/Fedora and OpenCast Matterhorn.

In the meantime, Northwestern is also doing a test with Kaltura, and there
is interest on our campus also in the ViewCast Media Platform
http://www.viewcast.com/products/viewcast-media-platform , which is the
DAMS University of Michigan uses for BlueStream
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/bluestream/home. ShareStream
http://www.sharestream.com/ is another solution originally developed for
Georgetown. VTLS also recently announced the release of VITAL Media
http://www.thevitalmedia.com/  Not endorsing any of these, of course, just
passing along in the info.

If you're interested in talking with our Variations on Video team, let me
know (that goes for anyone else on this list, too)

Claire

On 7/8/11 9:48 AM, "Madrigal, Juan A" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Bill,
>
>You would need three minimum components to get the job done. An asset
>management server for managing media and publishing,
>a streaming server, and a web front end. Here are some to look into:
>
>STREAMING SERVERS
>
>Wowza Streaming Server
>http://www.wowzamedia.com/
>
>mod_h264
>http://h264.code-shop.com/trac
>
>Red5
>http://www.red5.org/
>
>Mammoth
>http://mammothserver.org/
>
>Darwin Streaming Server (Quicktime)
>http://dss.macosforge.org/
>
>WEB FRONT END
>
>MediaCore CMS
>http://mediacore.com/
>
>ASSET MANAGEMENT/MEDIA DEPLOYMENT
>
>Final Cut 
>Server<http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=final+cut+server&aq=f>
>for a review/approval worflow and publishing video to your streaming
>serve if you can get your hands on it, along with Transmogrifier
>http://transmogrifier.sourceforge.net for enhanced publishing workflows
>
>Another option is  TACTIC: http://www.southpawtech.com which I haven't
>used but you can attach scripts which can be used to publish files
>
>
>For the video format/codec I would recommend H264 delivered via HTTP
>Adaptive Streaming. This will allow mobile streaming to smart phones and
>tablets and you could always wrap H264 video in Flash if necessary
>(FlowPlayer/JWPlayer) for the desktop. You could use Flash on the desktop
>to protect the stream or a token based authentication mechanism along
>with user based access controls.
>
>To handle a large amount of users or concurrent streams you would need to
>implement a load balancing server calls the video from the streaming
>server with the least load.
>A cache server wouldn't be a bad idea either for popular videos. Another
>option is to use a CDN like AmazonS3 or Akamai on a case by case
>scenario. Say you are streaming a specific event and expect a heavy
>number of views for example.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Juan Madrigal
>
>Web Developer
>Web and Emerging Technologies
>University of Miami
>Richter Library
>
>
>On 7/7/11 5:05 PM, "William Helman"
><[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>We are in the information gathering stage of a project to look at offering
>streaming video course reserves for online/distance multimedia classes the
>University of Baltimore offers.  Think Netflix streaming for obsucure
>films
>not on Netflix (such as digitized films from special collections, or
>instructor personal copies).  I was wondering if anyone out there has any
>experience with this sort of thing?
>
>
>We currently use Slingbox (http://www.slingmedia.com/), but this will not
>scale to what our faculty have in mind.  The most pressing needs (besides
>system tools to help maintain fair use), are one that is reliable outside
>of
>library hours and one that lets us upload our own content.
>
>
>Our partner from campus IT is investigating http://www.kaltura.org/,
>anyone
>have experience with it?
>
>
>Thanks, and sorry for the cross post.
>
>
>
>  -Bill Helman
>
>
>
>Integrated Digital Services Librarian - University of Baltimore Langsdale
>Library
>
>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> - ph. 410 837 4209 -
>http://whelman.com

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Northwestern University Library
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