©2005, Egon Verharen, SURFnet. 14-4-05. Seminar New Technologies - Distribution of Video Art

Technological developments in digital video creation and

online distribution

Egon Verharen

SURFnetMail, SIP, (H.323): Egon.Verharen@surfnet.nl

Phone, H.323: 0031302305367

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Premise: broadband technology is thereInternet networks is the way to go

- Managed Dark-fiber network- IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity

- Unicast & Multicast- 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections

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Internet traffic on SURFnet

SURFnet customer traffic: Monthly volume

0200400600800

10001200140016001800

Month & year

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1600 Tbyte/month

≈ 5 Gbits/second

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Premise: broadband technology is thereAlso at home

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Digital video for music apps

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Digital video for visualisation

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Delivery over Internet: download or streaming

• Video-on-demand (1-1)– Video libraries– Streaming or Progressive download

• Scheduled streaming (like broadcast, 1-n)– Digital theme channels

• Live streaming (netcast, narrowcast, 1-n)– Events

• Videoconferencing (Interactive, 1-1, m-n)• File download

• For all: Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (& Billing) DRM

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Video on demand

Extra:- virtual cutter- transcoding

See Montevideo forother Mediatheque

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Scheduled streaming

By: www.nederland4.nl

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Live streaming

• Streamgate

• Only scalable solution: multicast !

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Live streaming

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Settopbox

What’s your delivery platform ?

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What’s your delivery platform?

Aula/cinema + projector

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Settopbox + TV/screen

What’s your delivery platform ?

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• Is mobile the future ?

By: EVL of the University of Illinois at Chicago & Motorola Labs http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/continuum/vvp/report.htm

What’s your delivery platform ?

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Sony PSP

What’s your delivery platform ?

But: is this the artists’ preferred context?

©2005, Egon Verharen, SURFnet. 14-4-05. Seminar New Technologies - Distribution of Video Art

Multichannel delivery

• Mediagateway: distribution hub:IP nets, Cable, mobile (UMTS/GPRS)

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Hosting for self-distribution

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New ways video is distributed

• VideopodcastingBroadcatching– RSS + Bittorrent +

Videocodec/transcode

• PSPcasting

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Video coding

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• More pixels = more information

• Quality = attention (+ recall )

Premise: HQ pays off

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1920

1080

1080i HD

1080

1440 HDV

720

1280720p HD

704

576

4CIF/FullD1 (SD)

352

288CIF (SD)

Options available: formats (SD vs HD)

©2005, Egon Verharen, SURFnet. 14-4-05. Seminar New Technologies - Distribution of Video Art

• MPEG-2– formats

• 2-5 mb/s (SD MPEG-2)• 19.7 mb/s (HD: HDV/720p/1080i)

• MPEG-4 (Part10, AVC, H.264)– “MPEG-2 quality in MPEG-1 bandwidth”– In Quicktime7– Realtime encoding > 4CIF too intensive for PC

• Hw codecs

• WM9+

Options available: MPEG codecs

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SD MPEG-2 VC

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30 mb/s

Options available: alternative codecs: DV

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HD MPEG-2 VC: HDV

By CRL

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Uncompressed HD VC: UltraGrid vs ResearchChannel

By AARnet & ResearchChannel

By Ladan Gharai (ISI/USC) & Colin Perkins (UoGlasgow)

Alt system byMcGill Univ

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Concluding

• Streaming is good technique/platform for distributing video art

• New codecs make HQ (and all video and film formats) possible

• Always save in highest possible quality & transcode for large scale distribution

• Challenge is not in coding, hosting, streaming, but in DRM for distribution