Streaming Media at WILL

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Streaming Media at WILL

• Jack Brighton
• Assistant Director of Broadcasting
• for
• Internet Development
• WILL AM-FM-TV
• jackb_at_uiuc.edu

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The medium is the message

• I will not read my powerpoint slides
• I will not read my powerpoint slides
• I will not read my powerpoint slides
• I will not read my powerpoint slides

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Streaming at WILL

• http//will.uiuc.edu

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Not the Internet
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A nice little .wav file
Brown v. Board Commemoration Series Juan
Williams, Thurgood Marshall American
Revolutionary, Foellinger Auditorium, Sept 29,
2003 Recorded at 44.1 KHz, 16 bit Duration 1
hour 12 minutes File size 371 MB
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(No Transcript)
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• Compression
• -
• decompression
• codec

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Like photos and jpegs


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Streaming Formats
RealMedia

• Great codecs
• Simple encoding tools
• Easy hyperlink methods
• Universal OS support
• But oh those annoying ads

www.realnetworks.com/index_rn.html
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Streaming Formats
Windows Media

• Great codecs
• Simple encoding tools
• Easy hyperlink methods
• Window Mac player only

www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.asp
x
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Streaming Formats
Quicktime

• Great codecs
• Simple encoding tools
• Difficult link methods
• Universal OS Support
• Documentation written in French or something

www.apple.com/quicktime/
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Streaming Formats
MPEG

• Standards-based multimedia format (ISO/IEC)
• MPEG 4 codecs for true streaming totally rock!
• UmMPEG what??

www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/
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Streaming Methods

• Download (HTTP)
• Progressive (HTTP)
• True streaming (RTSP real time streaming
  protocol)
• (requires streaming server)

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Helix Universal Server

• RTSP server for Real, Windows, Quicktime, MPEG-4,
  MP3, AAC, etc
• Cost of server license NumberOfStreamsX X

www.realnetworks.com/index_rn.html
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How WILL does archives

• Capture audio from air signal with Cybercorder
• www.skyhawktech.com/index.html
• Encode with Cleaner XL directly to Helix server
  at CITES (RealAudio and MP3) http//www4.discreet.
  com/cleanerxl/

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Cybercorder records by time
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Cleaner XL watches for files
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my portable studio
USB 24/96 sound card plus notebook equals nirvana
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Sound Forge good!
Recording Software
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Encoding Software

• Helix best RealMedia-only encoding program
• 199 from RealNetworks
• Windows Media Encoder Free download
• Cleaner XL multi-format encoding for most useful
  formats
• 599 from www.discreet.com
• 179 from www.journeyed.com
• Sony Sound Forge, Adobe Audition, shareware, etc.
  but beware of older stuff (outdated codecs)

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New Media Challenges

• Which formats, methods, and tools will survive?
• What is the new craft, and how do we master it?
• How will we manage the explosion of media
  content?
• How do we pay for the infrastructure?

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We need a place to discuss all this changing
multimedia stuff
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Educational Media group
The EdMedia Group is a volunteer-based special
interest group, open to anyone at the University
of Illinois active or interested in Internet
multimedia for instruction, public service, or
research. It is affiliated with the Campus
Webmasters.
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• EdMedia-l listserve
• Purpose
• To improve the quality of educational media on
  the University of Illinois campus by sharing
  expertise among producers, online instructors,
  and content developers.
• Email
• listserv_at_listserv.uiuc.edu
• (in message body type Subscribe
  edmedia-l_at_listserv.uiuc.edu your full name)

Web http//listserv.uiuc.edu/archives/edmedia-l.h
tml
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Streaming Media at WILL

• Jack Brighton
• Assistant Director of Broadcasting
• for
• Internet Development
• WILL AM-FM-TV
• jackb_at_uiuc.edu