MediaMosa, yet another videoplatform

MediaMosa, yet another video platform?from end user application to platform service
Marc Pluijmaekers – Technical Product Manager Video
november 2010

A little bit of history…
Once upon a time… the Kennisnet Video Portaal (KVP)
portal where schools could store their audio-visual content in one big container/collection
However…some years later…
Video sharing sites like YouTube seemed qualified to fulfill the needs of individuals or even individual schools
Besides:
the quality and capacity of YouTube grew faster than we could innovate
YouTube has far more means to create new functionality
Kennisnet may not disrupt the competitive market with supply and demand
MediaMosa, yet another video platform?

Why choosing a platform service
Collection providers want to offer their content to their targeted educational sector under their own label
Kennisnet’s mission is to support schools and educational facilities with independent services regarding the effective and safe use of ICT, thus improving the quality of teaching and learning.
ERGO: A platform service instead of an end user application, targeting collection providers and (large) educational organizations
No investments in streaming servers, storage, transcoding, etc. needed, collection providers can solely focus on presentation
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Make or buy: why invest in ‘yet another video platform’?
The market is catching on, but a number of key features is lacking:
Authorization and authentication
(user)access to collections requires careful organization
Metadata
finding content is essential
Collection management
guarantees for quality, format, availability, service (contract) duration
ERGO: “MAKE”: Let’s BUILD that video platform service ourselves !!!
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MediaMosa, yet another videoplatform?

So then came…
2007 >> start project VP-X: development of a video platform in cooperation with SURFnet and Madcap
2008 >> going live with an operational video platform service: VP-Core
2009 >> open sourcing of the VP-Core code: MediaMosa
2010 >> developing new VP-Core / MediaMosa functionality
three releases in 2010
continuation of the operational service to collection providers connected to VP-Core
community development

Video platform as a building block for end user applications
VP-Core is a building block for end user applications and offers a number of key features:
storage
streaming
transcoding
authorization and authentication
metadata management
MediaMosa is software to build a Full Featured, Webservice Oriented Media Management and Distribution platform.
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Video services by Kennisnet
Target customers: collection providers, large educational organizations and schools
Proposition: Kennisnet delivers the platform en customers build their own end user application
There is a white label end user application (WLE) available for customers to use as a starting point for their own end user application
Collection providers have been successfully connected: S-TV and E-TV, who have built their own end user application
Connecting individual schools was not successful: installing the WLE was (still) too complicated for them…
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Future plans
Further development of MediaMosa and taking new functionality into production on our operational VP-Core platform
Continue video platform services to current customers, connect new customers
MediaMosa community development
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