Transcript Multimedia content delivery over LANs and WANs

Multimedia content delivery
over LANs and WANs
Patrick Coe
EKU Technology department
EET 499 CET/CEN Capstone project 2009
Outline
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Develop both a reliable and cost effective
method of storing and delivering
multimedia content in a diverse
environment.
Configure and allow administrators secure
remote access to the distribution system.
Ensure client accessibility and ease of use.
Motivation
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Personal interest after doing work at
both a cable TV and radio station in
Carahue, Chile
An interest in making interactive
methods of learning accessible to a
larger audience.
Personal interest in Linux based
operating systems and their capabilities
To make people’s lives easier
Introduction
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Voice and video over IP have become
common. Skype™ and YouTube™ are
popular examples.
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Business meetings can happen without
physical presence
A professor can lecture to classes in
different locations
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Facility has over three-hundred client
computers and over one thousand users
across 3 buildings.
Problem Statement
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How do we implement a multimedia
distribution system to handle these
users?
How do we keep this solution costeffective and scalable
Servers
Dell PowerEdge 4400
Dell Optiplex GX110
-733 MHz Pentium III Xeon
processor
-256 MB registered SDRAM
-four 9 GB SCSI HDDs in a RAID-5
configuration
-Web-cam
-TV-tuner
-1200 MHz Celeron Processor
-384 MB SDRAM
-two 30 GB IDE HDDs
-Web-cam
Software
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Windows 2003 Server
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
VideoLAN
Windows Media Encoder
Windows Media Services
tightVNC
LogMeIn
Design
Webcam
World Wide Web
Ubuntu VideoLAN Server
Ubuntu File Server
Web Server
Internet*
Windows Media Services
Windows Media Encoder
TV Tuner
*Theoretical, due to the network environment this portion could not be implemented
FM/AM
Tuner
Webcam
Clients (Students/Teachers/Staff)
Remote Access
System in practice
Dead server
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Thunderstorm destroyed the Ubuntu
Server
System still works in place due to built
in redundancy
Conclusion
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Great learning experience
Cheap and scalable
It works! You can go to
http://www.wburg.k12.ky.us/extra/jack
ettv/archivepage.htm and view videos
available on the web
Future Work
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Live-CD distribution
Secure web access to multimedia
MythTV as an easy to use client
Thank you for watching
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