Joseph Labrecque presented on the need for a unified video system for the University of Denver. He discussed services that could be provided for faculty, staff, and students, including uploading, publishing, and distributing videos across devices. The presentation covered the technical process for uploading, transcoding, encoding, and publishing videos to the Adobe Media Server through an application called CrunchBuddy. Labrecque also provided statistics on the reach of Flash Player and developments coming to the Flash platform.

1. November 21st 2012
Adobe Media Server User Group
Joseph Labrecque

2. Senior Interactive Software Engineer | Adjunct Faculty
University of Denver
Proprietor | Owner
Fractured Vision Media, LLC
Adobe Community Professional
Adobe Education Leader
Adobe Influencer
Author
Packt Publishing | O’Reilly Media | video2brain | Adobe Press | Peachpit
Artist
An Early Morning Letter, Displaced | shivervein

7. What’s wrong?
• No centralized upload, processing, distribution
• Everyone is doing their own thing
What do we need?
• Unified, centralized system
• Tooling for students and faculty
• Distribution across desktops and devices

10. Services for faculty and staff
• Request video recording services for official DU events, such as
guest speakers, lecturers, performances, marketing, and live
events.
• Upload and publish staff and faculty videos.
• Upload private course related videos for student assessment.
• Browse and search on hundreds of DU videos.
Services for students
• Upload your course video assignment (if your instructor has
activated this feature).

19. • Located on VideoManager
• Must be numeric – ID assigned by app
• Files copied to CRUNCHER
• UNC Path

20. • Use NativeProcess MediaInfo
• Read in encoding data
• Compare with HQ profile data
• Add file to transcode queue
• Send data to VideoManager
• AJAX Requests

22. • Use NativeProcess HandBrakeCLI
• Pass in arguments for AMS playback
• File is encoded to AMS storage
• Optionally: HQ original is moved to storage
• UNC Path

24. • AMS is polled to gather final data
• NetConnection
• Data is bundled and sent to VideoManager
• AJAX Requests
• VideoManager lets user know status
• User finalizes metadata - done

25. • Uploader checks for min/max filesize
• Uploader checks for valid file types
• CrunchBuddy produces a log each session
• HandBrake may reject the file
• User is notified of any problems
• Original file and log is retained

37. • Google Chromium = 99%
• University of Denver = 96%
• Steam = 97%
• StatOWL = 96%
• RIAStats = 96%

38. • Over 1.3 Billion people have Flash Player 11
• An audience 20x larger than Xbox 360
• 500 million additional iOS/Android via AIR
• 600 million perform silent install
• Google Chrome and Windows 8 ModernUI
• 96% top Facebook games are Flash Player

41. • Stage3D / Starling / Away3D
• Flash Professional “HellCat”
• Flash Builder 4.7
• ActionScript Compiler 2.0
• Project “Monocle”
• New Runtimes
• New Virtual Machine
• New version of ActionScript

42. Get in touch…
Twitter: @JosephLabrecque
Email: Joseph.Labrecque@du.edu
Web: http://JosephLabrecque.com/