Internet2 Virtual Briefing
ResearchChannel: Advanced Media Projects
Thursday, 17 July 2003
1:00-2:30pm EDT
(17.00-18.30 UTC)
Video on Demand Archive:
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Windows
Media Player 9: Full Event
(The briefing begins 22 seconds into the archive) |
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RealOne Player: Select Individual Speakers
Laurie Burns [real]
Kathleen McMonigal [real]
Gates Rhodes [real]
Jim DeRoest [real]
Mike Wellings and Bob Riddle [real]
Gurcharan Khanna [real]
Mike Wellings [real]
Questions & Answers, Concluding Remarks [real]
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ResearchChannel leads the way in advanced streaming
media with High Definition video-on-demand, broadcast-quality
multicast,
and distribution of live DV over IP. ResearchChannel also
provides thousands of programs to viewers around the world
in bandwidths ranging from 28.8 Kbs to uncompressed HD at
1.5Gbs. During the Virtual Briefing, the infrastructure and
interfaces that make these projects successful will be discussed,
with a focus on the Internet2 working group projects.
Agenda:
- Research Channel Overview : Kathleen
McMonigal, General
Manager, ResearchChannel
- Working Group Projects
- Video On Demand Digital Infrastructure: Why video quality
matters and how it has made a difference
on the UPenn
campus : Gates
Rhodes, Internet2 ResearchChannel Working
Group Chair, University of Pennsylvania
- HD Quality to the Desktop projects and codecs : Jim
DeRoest, Director Streaming
Technologies, University of Washington
- SDI/IP and DVTS : Michael
Wellings, Director Broadcast Engineering, ResearchChannel,
and Bob
Riddle, Applications Technologist, Internet2
- Multicast and the Technology being used for the Virtual Briefing : Jim
DeRoest and Michael
Wellings
- High
Quality Video and Persistent Public Spaces : Gurcharan
Khanna, Associate
Director, Research Computing,
Dartmouth College
- Upcoming ResearchChannel Working Group Projects : Kathleen
McMonigal
Interactive:
H.323 Videoconferencing via the Commons MCU
(H.323 with H.263 video at 768K only (384K on special
request))
Telephone and SIP access
- Dial +1-800-541-1710 and
enter the participant code: 0131133.
- To have the system call
you, visit this webpage.
- (International callers, please dial +1-734-531-0125)
Viewing Streams
(not interactive):
Multicast*
- VBrick† MPEG-2 Stream: 233.45.17.245/4444
or "Internet2 Netcast" (StreamPlayer† required)
- Windows Media Player (Version
9 Required)
(automatic unicast backup):
- Access Grid: Institution Lobby
: Internet2
- VIC/RAT
- VIC 233.2.171.231/59906
- RAT 233.2.171.231/59908
- IPTV Stream: Program name: "Internet2
Netcast"
Unicast
Experimental
(unproven, trial, or test technologies)
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Notes:
*Multicast works
only if your network supports multicast.
†VBrick: The
free StreamPlayer is incompatible with Windows Media
Player 9 installed on
your computer. Forward error
correction is not supported;
the link
must be loss free.
‡VRVS: Polycom
FX with recent firmware (4.2) can not decode the legitimate
H.261 video
produced by VIC (all intraframes).
++RealOne Player
Plug-ins to View the Starbak RealOne Stream: If
you wish to view the Real version
of the Starbak stream, you must
follow these directions to install two plug-ins:
- Open your RealPlayer and in the menu select Help
: About RealOne Player.
- When the About window pops up, click the button, Check
for Update.
- A selection of multimedia plug-ins will appear.
Scroll down and check-off both H.261 Video
Plug-in Support and H.263 Video
Plug-in Support.
- Select Install.
- Close your RealPlayer.
- Go to the Starbak link above.
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