Feb 02
Oscar nominated The Secret of Kells
The producer of Oscar nominated The Secret of Kells, Paul Young CEO of Cartoon Saloon, gave a talk at HEAnet conference in 2009 about their studio.
Tags: WorkDec 10
Multimedia, Technology, Work Streaming, Work No Comments
Budget 2010 Bandwidth Graph
The Budget webcast on Wednesday the 9th of December wasn’t has big as the emergency budget in April but still very busy. We had about 9100 concurrent streams at peak using 4.49 Gbit/s of bandwidth. The format ratio was 8:1 to Flash over Windows Media.
Some more stats from the webcast;
Average viewing time: 5 minutes, 1 second
79% of viewers were in Ireland.
76% of Irish viewers were viewing in Dublin.
Traffic Sources;
irishtimes.com
newstalk.ie
boards.ie
independent.ie
heanet.ie
finfacts.ie
oireachtas.ie
businessandfinance.ie
smallbusinesscan.com
breakingnews.ie
dublins98.ie
fiannafail.ie
businessandfinancetoday.com
tcd.ie
publicaffairsireland.com
irishexaminer.com
thepost.ie
herald.ie
examiner.ie
ilta.net
irishexaminer.ie
tv-here.ru
epa.ie
sbpost.ie
ucd.ie
The technology behind it;
We use 6 Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers with Windows Server 2003 and Flash Media Server 3.5, each connected with two gigabit connections to the HEAnet network. The Windows Media servers (soon to include the FMS servers) are Dell PowerEdge R905 servers with 10 Gbit/s connections running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The servers currently host four virtual machines serving Windows Media using network load balancing across the VMs. They will soon host FMS VM also.
Nov 24
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I updated a 7 minute clip from the Dáil archive to test the new auto syncing of a transcript feature on YouTube. I uploaded the video and a plain text file with no timecodes in it. Youtube did a very good job of creating the subtitles.
To enable “Close Captions” by selecting “cc” from the menu in the bottom right corner of the player.
Tags: Multimedia, StreamingNov 05
Multimedia, Work Travel, Work No Comments
I’m visiting Prague for a Terena TF-Media meeting in the National Technical Library. A very interesting building.
Tags: Travel, WorkJun 23
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I’m going to be attending the Performing Arts Production Workshop in Trieste, Italy. It is being organised by TERENA, Internet2 and GARR.
“GARR will host the TERENA and Internet2 hands-on audio/video production workshop that will be held on 13-15 July 2009, at the Music Conservatory of Trieste, Italy. The workshop is meant to be the first in a series of annual events emphasising the equipment and staffing requirements for interactive performing arts education, multi-site performance events, and high quality netcasting over advanced networks.”
The workshop is intended to train people how to broadcast a live event. It covers video and audio production, along with encoding and streaming.
It is unusual; when you work for a National Research and Education Network (NREN), you use the phrase “bandwidth is not a problem”. It can be difficult to get this idea across to a vendor that you want a 1Gbit/s stream not a 1Mbit/s video stream. The workshop will be covering the higher end of streaming, no YouTube quality stuff here.
Tags: Multimedia, Travel, Work
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