Video Warehousing

[Steve Peace]

>Not sure if this is quite what you're looking for but
>Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has a
>video delivery system in place that was designed by Ali Jafari.
>It's called the Interactive Multimedia Distribution System


There are also a number of commercially available products on the market.
The coolest of which allow you to encode video into any format you want,
store it in a relational database, and stream it out over WWW connections.
One of the products available, SGI's MediaBase 2.0 will even read the speed
of the client accessing the video and optimize the streaming for that
particular connection - using RSVP technology.  The real power of the
product is it's cross-compatability.  It will run with almost any
compression strategy on almost any sort of network.  It is really one of
the coolest multimedia products to come out for the Web in a long time.

Here's the URL for the SGI product:
http://www.sgi.com/Products/WebFORCE/Products/Mediabase/

I hope this is useful,

Best,
Steve


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