Video & Audio On Demand
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Why are the time-based media, such as audio and video, a valuable addition to interactive CDs and DVDs, websites, and the Seamless Mobility that is in such demand by consumers in order to experience media via cell phones, PDAs, set top devices, computers, and virtually any other playback device that is available to users where ever there are, when ever they desire?
There are economic reasons, political reasons and technological reasons. Perhaps the most justifiable rationales are content-based and ask how digital video or audio enhances the intellectual character of a presentation, work, or educational undertaking.
A sampling of different video files has been collected in order illustrate how media can embellish content presentation, or even act as the very foundation of knowledge transfer. Please link to this web page Why Do You Want Digital Video? for examples.
Video on Demand, or VOD, is the most commonly used term to define systems that allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems either "stream" content, allowing viewing while the video is being downloaded, or "download" it in which the program is brought in its entirely to a set-top box before viewing starts. For a more complete definition and orientation to VOD, refer to the article in the Wikipedia entitled Video on demand. Included is a long list of content providers around the world.
The University of Utah has generalized the concept of Video on Demand, VOD, to include many other forms of media that should be made available as an on-demand service or offering to our faculty, students, staff, administrators, alumni, and community partners. Thus we most often will be referring to Media On Demand, in order to capture the distribution and re-purposing of many forms of media, including video, audio, interactives (e.g., Flash objects), text, images, webcasting, podcasting, and Internet collaboration and interaction tools.
[edit] Resources
- VidMid-Vod -- Internet2 Middleware Initiative Video Working Group
- http://middleware.internet2.edu/video/index-vod.html
- Anystream Media Conversion and Delivery
- http://www.anystream.com/
- Akamai Media Conversion and Delivery
- http://www.akamai.com/
- Akamai Stream OS
- Akamai Stream OS is an enterprise solution that provides a single point of control for producing, publishing, delivering, and protecting rich media, and reporting tools to support online business models. Together with the Akamai Media Delivery solution, Stream OS allows content owners to manage and distribute all of their rich content—Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, Flash, MP3, podcasts, downloads, and more.
- http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/stream_os.html
- Akamai Whitepaper-- "Akamai Streaming-When Performance Matters"
- http://www.akamai.com/html/perspectives/whitepapers_content.html
- VitalStream Media Conversion and Delivery
- http://www.vitalstream.com/
- Akimbo--Internet video-on-demand service for Windows XP and Vista-based PCs
- http://www.akimbo.com
- Joost--Internet video-on-demand service (peer to peer) with Web 2.0 social communication features (for PCs and Intel-based Apple computers)
- http://www.joost.com
- mDialogue--subscription-based H.264 transcoding, storage, distribution, and controlled, invitation-based sharing of personal digital video files (with free Viewer's accounts for those watching videos, but not uploading materials)
- http://www.mdialogue.com/
- thePlatform--broadband video application service provider for PCs and set-top boxes
- http://www.theplatform.com
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