<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am currently pursuading the University of Greenwich to consider purchasing a server and to then run an OSS Media server, on Linux, since the head of ICT systems is a lover of Debian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The official requirements list is for an integrated system.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Is anyone already running some kind of open source media service on Linux / Unix?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Has anyone ever found a system that can run these services from an OSS Media server?</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">upload and storage of existing media assets (in many formats, including wmv, avi, mov, flv, mp3, etc.)</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">delivery of those assets (both as downloads and as streamed media) via a web front end and in a variety of formats to suit varying (and varying sizes of) devices</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">live streaming of events</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">delivery of live streaming via a web front end</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">simultaneous production of static media from live streamed events</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">searchable, categorised media assets; so that media can either be tagged or be situated in a folder structure (or both) using School/Department/Course/Project/Conference/Research group information</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ability to edit the media (download/upload to replace, online metadata editing), possibly with workflow management and editing history</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">role-based access to manage and upload media, such that users may have rights to manage assets with a particular tag or in a particular location, but not elsewhere</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">options of open and restricted access to view / download media, such that some media will be restricted to e.g. participants in a certain course, but others will be open to everyone</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">connection with the existing University network, user database and possibly client machines (although maybe web access for all functions to make this unnecessary)</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
</ul>Looking forward to your ideas. BTW ITALC is running well here, thanks for your advice.<br clear="all"><br><a href="mailto:james.snyder@linuxmail.org">james.snyder@linuxmail.org</a><br>