Web Video Solutions: Optimized Video Content for Media Portals

Optimized Video Content for Media Portals
building optimized interactive
web video solutions
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Table of Contents
Web Video: Building Optimized Interactive Web Video Solutions
System Architecture
3-servers structure
media content processing
Video Formats Conversion
Thumbnails
Video Distribution
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Web Video: Building Optimized Interactive Web Video Solutions
With growing popularity of video sharing networks, video portalsbecome an essential part of marketing web activities.
While it is relatively easy and straightforward to incorporate a video player into the website showing 10 to 20 video clips, the real challenge is to develop a scalable video sharing portal with up to 10k visitors daily, tons of indexed movies with multiple comments to them, advanced search, categorization, tags, and, the most important – minimum time to load the page with video content.
In this presentationwe share our experience on how to efficiently structure video streams and servers for a medium-to-large size video sharing portal.

System Architecture
1. Three-servers structure:
Front end – web server
Media content conversion – a server dedicated to converting the video from custom formats to a unified system format
Data storage – a server responsible for storing and distributing media content

System Architecture
The servers share disk space for simple and effective data exchange.
Servers should be arranged physically at the same data center.
Protocols used for data sharing:
Network File System protocol
User Datagram Protocol

System Architecture
2. Media content processing.
Standard way to implement the media content processing:

System Architecture
Optimization of the standard media content processing approach:
Security check should be conducted on the Media Format Converter level.

Popular video formats:
ASF
MPEG
FLV
OGG
FLV format –
H264 video standard –
provides the best video quality,
keeping the file size small.
Note that:
FLV format requires
Adobe Flash Player 10+

Video clips to FLV format converting tools:
1- http://www.ffmpeg.org/
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder
3- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/
4- http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/

Solutions for video meta data management:
1- http://yamdi.sourceforge.net/
2 - http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

List of multimedia formats that can be converted into FLV (H264):

Thumbnails
Required:
custom image size
realistic proportions
acceptable picture quality
minimal file size

Video Distribution
Distributing video from Data Storage
Delivering video files using:
HTTP – what is it?
HTTP streaming or HTTP delivery. HTTP means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, and is the same protocol used to deliver web pages. For this reason it is easy to set up and use on almost any website, without requiring additional software or special hosting plans.
RTMP – what is it?
Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server.

Thank you!
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