As I said in a previous post I would cover media streaming and how we deliver all of our digital assets through SharePoint, in the presentations that we give on our learning gateways this subject always gets a good reception as this is a great way to engage staff in the whole gateway experience. Before I get into details I thought I would take you through the media streaming journey.
What we deliver through SharePoint now is version three of our digital media gateway this all started with the release of windows server 2000, media services was one of those hidden gems that Microsoft never seem to talk about this was not the main reason there where so many other advantages to moving from Windows NT 4 too Server 2000 with active directory and group policy deployment high on the list of big wins. So we put media services on the back burner until the release of windows server 2003 at that time is was a much more mature technology but still very much unknown. But it was not until 2005 that we started digitizing all the video tapes in the school this came about with the news that Dorset County Council where reroofing the main block during the summer holiday of 2005 this is where our server room and majority of IT suites are so I had to find work to cover us during this period.
After much research we decided to purchase seven pinnacle studio movie boxes this gave us the ability to connect to any video recorder or DVD player through a scart lead I also purchased seven video recorders from comet (I am sure the salesman thought I was mad) and a Dell server with 8 drives bays giving us in excess of a 1 TB of local storage on the server. The call went out to staff for their departmental videos in early July and hundreds of tapes turned up we then divided up the tapes and with the help of the techies Christian Drewson, Sylvia Haghighi and Dan Rolles also family members we started the mammoth task of digitizing the schools video stock. After six weeks we had managed to get over a 1000 online this was delivered through an HTML website on the media server. With the arrival at Twynham of Darren White we did take the next step and Darren wrote a PHP website allowing us to make the delivery of digital assets to staff more automatic. But it was the next step that was our biggest leap delivery through SharePoint which I will cover in the next post……
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Mary Ann
October 24, 2011 at 1:35 pm (UTC 0)
Since upgrading to SharePoint 2010 I have been looking for a good way to handle videos to avoid having them put in SharePoint itself. With 2007 we used the Podcasting Toolkit which was less than perfect. We do have a media server and I have manually put the videos there and provided users with an MMS URL to embed in a video player. I like the solution you have developed but was wondering if you have an automated way of getting the videos on the WMS server or if the teaching staff send all videos to the IT staff who then upload them to the WMS. Thanks!
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