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Take a look on theregister.co.uk they constantly review nas with lots
of bolt-ons and today there have been a few nice new ones that I like
the look of.<br>
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On 03/06/10 16:24, james snyder wrote:
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';">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';">The
official requirements list is for an integrated system.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';">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';">Has
anyone ever found a system that can run these services from an OSS
Media server?</span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';"></span> </div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">upload and
storage of existing media assets (in many formats, including wmv, avi,
mov, flv, mp3, etc.)</span><span style=""><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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=""><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">live
streaming of events</span><span style=""><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">delivery
of live streaming via a web front end</span><span style=""><font
size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">simultaneous
production of static media from live streamed events</span><span
style=""><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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=""><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ability to
edit the media (download/upload to replace, online metadata editing),
possibly with workflow management and editing history</span><span
style=""><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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=""><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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=""><font size="3"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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=""><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">
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:james.snyder@linuxmail.org">james.snyder@linuxmail.org</a><br>
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