though).
Two Windows boxes (one XP, one Server 2003). The XP box has a couple of
Odyssey video input cards to handle the input from our cable TV connection
(through a couple of VCRs) and one to handle input from our Polycom
videoconference system. It has the FREE Windows Media Encoder software
installed that does the encoding to create the streams and it pushes these
to the Windows Server box.
The Windows Server 2003 box is running the FREE (with your Windows Server
license) Windows Media Server 9 software. It does the work of
re-broadcasting the streams from the encoder so that people can tune in to
the two TV stations with Windows Media Player. It also handles on-demand
connections for our ever-growing collection of video clips (encoded using
Windows Media Encoder) from school-owned DVDs and VHS tapes. These
on-demand videos are only available to domain-member internal computers on
our LAN. Our Mac clients can also tune in (we have the Flip4Mac software
installed on our Macs which enables QuickTime Player to play Windows Media
streams). Some of our users use the free VLC player instead of QuickTime or
Windows Media Player and that works fine too.
We have also plugged in a firewire capable video camera into a firewire
capable laptop with WME software and pushed live video through our streaming
server so that viewers can tune in from various locations on campus. We've
even done video-broadcast morning announcements (all our classrooms have
mounted projectors connected to classroom workstations) by setting up a
stream and giving teachers a link to tune in.
The whole setup can also be done with Quicktime Broadcaster and Quicktime
Streaming Server on Apple hardware...
In either case, not very hard to setup, and not very expensive to implement.
By the way, our LAN is gigabit fiber between buildings and 100Mbit to the
desktop.
Hope this helps,
Christopher
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Christopher Butler
Academic Technology Director
St. John's Preparatory School
Danvers, MA
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On 11/14/07 6:54 PM, "Steve Taffee" <Steve_Taffee@castilleja.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone -
>
> I am starting to spec out a video over IP solution for our school, and would
> love to hear from any other that have done this. We have (I believe) the right
> Cisco infrastructure to handle the bandwidth.
>
> We're interested in both multicast streaming and video on demand, using a
> range of video sources including cable or satellite TV, DVDs, and video
> cameras.
>
> If you have experience with this and can recommend particular solutions,
> please contact me.
>
> Tks.
>
> s
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