APAN Quest NET 2004 Cairns Uncompressed HD

APAN / Quest. NET 2004 Cairns Uncompressed HD Video / ip

Research. Channel Jim De. Roest Director, Streaming Media Michael Wellings Director, Engineering University of Washington / Research. Channel

Participants • • • • • • CENIC Duke University George Mason University IBM Corporation Georgia Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Johnson & Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Sciences National Institutes of Health National Institute of Standards and Technology National Science and Technology Medals Foundation National Sea Grant College Program National University of Singapore Pacific Northwest Gigapop Oregon State University R 1 edu. org Rice University Rutgers University Sony Electronics, Inc. Texas A&M University Tufts University Universidad de Puerto Rico Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya University of Alaska - Fairbanks University of Chicago University of Colorado University of Hawaii University of Houston University of Maryland University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Texas - Austin University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Virginia Tech Yale University Vulcan Northwest, Inc. Wisconsin Public Television Microsoft

Current Number of Viewers • 9. 0 million - Dish Network • 9. 1 million - Individual cable systems • 18. 1 million - Total

Hours of Media Viewed per Month Hours Combined Webcast and Video On Demand Programs

Video Library Growth • 270 New Programs per year Average 23 Premieres Each Month 1255 1158 Programs 971 1048 891 763 593 482 381 259 61 651 Program Archive Cumulative Total

Digital. Well • • • Media Asset Management System Isolon spinning disk cache Storage. Tek Back-end Pub. Cookie authentication Will be published and made available www. digitalwell. org

Multicast: Experimentation in high quality distribution • DVTS 233. 0. 73. 25 • 5. 1 Streaming Audio – KEXP-FM • Harmonic – Divicom – video. LAN client 3 Mbps @ 233. 0. 73. 29

Delivering Reality: i. HDTV • HD/IP >220 Mbps – www. Research. Channel. org/dvd 03 • Desktop HD delivery – MPEG 2@19. 2 Mbps – WM 9 HD@8 Mbps

Big Video Working. Group: First steps in high quality low latency interactive experiences • SDI/IP – contribution feed quality • DV/IP • Plasma screen resolution/IP • HDSDI/IP • HDCam/IP

BIG Video: DVTS - DV over the Internet • DV @ 30 Mbps • IEEE 1394 (firewire) • DVTS – Software from The WIDE Project – Hardware from Fujitsu Research • DVTS Projects – International cultural events – Virtual Briefings – Video Conferencing, AG-like experiences

DV - Digital Video • Digital Video, put simply, is video that has been digitally sampled • Digital Video comes in many formats and data rates: – – CCIR 601/SDI@ 270 -360 Mbps @ 4: 2: 2 Digital composite @ 95 -135 mbps MPEG 2 4: 2: 2 P @ up to 100 Mbps High Definition – SMPTE 292 M, ATSC rates, and MPEG 2 MP@HL 13 -100 Mbps – Streaming Video: Real, WM, Quicktime/Darwin/Sorensen, etc.

DVTS Software from the WIDE project • Runs on Free. BSD, OSX, Win. XP, Linux • Requires a IEEE 1394 interface • Requires DV source • Win. XP client permits desktop rendering of DV stream http: //www. sfc. wide. ad. jp/DVTS

DVTS Projects • Streaming applications – Virtual Briefings, Member Meeting, Cultural events • http: //people. internet 2. edu/%7 Ebdr/Comet. DVIP • http: //apps. internet 2. edu/dvip. html • http: //events. internet 2. edu/briefings/dvts. html • Video Conference – Testing with UPenn, IU, Korea, UW – AG integration (AArnet, Grange. Net, Internet 2) – Comet. DVIP “MCU”, Desktop integration

i. HDTV to the Desktop • Capture & Encode Architecture – Tiernan TR 1 encoder – HD Capture • Apple Dual G 5 • AJA Kona SD/HD capture board • Local RAID – HD Software Encoders • • Heuris MPEG 2 HD Apple Quick. Time HD with H. 264 Windows Media 9 HD REALVideo 10 HD

i. HDTV to the Desktop • Lower Bit Rate (3 -8 mbps) • Windows. Media 9 – Adobe Premiere and/or MS WM 9 Encoder – Multichannel Audio: 5. 1, 7. 1 – 1080 Interlace format issues • MPEG 4 – Advanced Simple Profile – licensing issues • Real Networks – Real. Video SDK – limited experience

i. HDTV to the Desktop • 19. 2 mbps MPEG 2 MP@HL – Servers: • Video. LAN - Vo. D Development • IBM Video. Charger V 8. 2 - – Software only Clients: – Video. Charger, Videolan – Elecard, Intervideo, Cinepak, Main. Concept – Hardware assist Client: • Directshow Shim to DTV Card: Win. TV-HD, Hi. Pix, My. HD • Desktop or External Display – Plasma, LCD, Projecto

Uncompressed HD video / IP • 1. 5 Gbps transfer • Dual 2. 4 GHz Xeon Intel PCI-X PCs • PCI-X 10 Gige NICs unavailable at build time • Data traffic split between 2 Gige NICs • AJA Xena HD output card SMPTE 292 M • Clips captured from HDCam source

Uncompressed HD Video / IP • Video Stored on 6 - 112 GB SATA drives in RAID 3 format • Low data rate between Canberra and Cairns resulted in local network demo • Low latency predicted for “live” feeds

Media delivery over IP futures • CPB Evolving the Links Project http: //evolvinglinks. uwex. edu/ • IP Delivery of Content to Research. Channel • Video delivery to PDAs • Archive Library of Congress • NASA space station video capture using DVTS

Media delivery over IP futures • Migration of slow Commodity Internet to match Internet 2 and NLR speeds • Next generation STB • Conversion of CATV systems to “mostly” fiber • All-ip delivery over cable • Datacasting via DTV stations

Participation • Research. Channel membership – www. researchchannel. org • DVTS software – http: //www. dvts. jp/en/ • bigvideo@internet 2. edu project – wellings@cac. washington. edu – bdr@internet 2. edu

Video Clips • HD 1080 i MPEG 2 • HD 720 p MPEG 2 HDV format • WM 9 HD

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