Streaming

 

SCITX Streaming Delivery

If your company is looking for streaming audio and video anytime and anywhere, on internal network or onto the Internet, SCITX has the customized solution to fit your needs. SCITX Streaming Media services deliver audio and video streams for on-line viewing. We offer performance with scalability so that you can maximize the impact of your movie trailer, news broadcast, training seminar, or other audio or video file.

From transmitting shows and movie previews to sport events and music, SCITX Streaming Media covers a range of possibilities that allows businesses to quickly and efficiently deliver media from point-to-point or point-to-multipoint.
Delivering content to several audiences, in several formats and bandwidths ranging from T1 to OC-12, SCITX Streaming Media provides businesses with valuable streaming media capabilities while minimizing systems, management and costs.

Product Line:

SCITX/Catalla.Host
This application provides user, resource, and content management for streaming media "hosting". We define hosting as "providing streaming media services to multiple internal or external costumers." SCITX/Catalla.Host provides hierarchical user management allowing the system administrator to create multiple virtual "sites" (or channels as QTV calls them) each with its own content management workgroup.

SCITX/Catalla.Share
A subset of SCITX/Catalla.Host that only supports content management by a single workgroup.

SCITX/Catalla.Show
This application provides a front-end web-browser interface for streaming media portals. We have developed portal interfaces for some customers and others have used .Host as a back-end for a separately developed front-end. With .Show we are creating an "out of box" solution for presenting streaming media to a large audience.

SCITX/Catalla.Show provides features like self-registration, viewer preferences management, streaming plug-in detection, large-thumbnail display of content, content popularity ranking, etc. that are essential to a successful streaming media site. SCITX/Catalla.Show supports pay-per-view, subscription, and advertising based revenue models. SCITX/Catalla also offers a powerful interest-based ad insertion technology that can be used to insert ads into a media stream tailored to the interests of a specific viewer.


SCITX/Catalla.Flow
Although SCITX/Catalla.Host has workflow features useful for internet publishing of video content, we are developing SCITX/Catalla.Flow to provide workflow capabilities that can be used for production and editing of video content, even when the content is to be distributed on DVD, tape or film. Features to be introduced with SCITX/Catalla.Flow include - remote "proxy" editing of content, frame-by-frame collaborative discussion, etc. We can demonstrate some of this technology now, but we are not planning a general release until January.


SCITX/Catalla.AppServer
Catalla's core technology used to build all Catalla applications as well as custom-developed applications for our enterprise customers.


SCITX/Catalla.Host


Enterprise IT Organizations
You are dealing with a range of needs in different departments. Marketing wants QuickTime support. Manufacturing needs Windows Media support and customer service needs Real Media. You want to be able to centralize the administration of streaming servers, the disk storage of large audio and video files, and, of course, you want to be able to restrict and monitor bandwidth from the same central location. You want to provide simple self-service to end-users while maintaining control. You also need to track usage by department and bill your internal customers based upon their usage. You need SCITX/Catalla.Host.

Reduce Costs
SCITX/Catalla.Host allows you to reduce costs by consolidating your servers and storage and centralizing your management. By automating management across multiple streaming servers and automating the workflow of users and administrators, you reduce labor costs and the probability of costly errors.

Boost Revenues
SCITX/Catalla.Host allows you to reach new customers and provide more services to existing customers - whether they are internal or external customers.

Built with SCITX/Catalla.AppServer
SCTIX/Catalla.Host was developed using SCITX/Catalla.AppServer platform. This means SCITX/Catalla.AppServer or your custom application will benefit from the powerful current and future features of SCITX/Catalla.AppServer.

Feature

Benefit
Seamless support for multiple streaming servers. Both administrators and users use a single tool to manage streaming server from different vendors. This dramatically reduces labor costs for you and your users.
Content Management - Allows you to organize their content by subject, keywords, etc. Makes it easy for customers to manage content on your servers.
Browser-based upload Increases flexibility for customers and reduces your administrative overhead. Each "site" (or workgroup) can create and manage their own users.
Batch upload tool Customers can upload content from any web-browser. Much simpler than using an FTP client.
Content Validation Allows for upload and validation of large amounts of content.
Bandwidth and Storage Management Informs customer of errors immediately and reduces your tech support costs.
Gives you greater control and lets you bill for your services.
Review & Approval System can be configured to require management approval before content is released to the general public.
Automated Encoding Capabilities - self-service and/or expert assisted format conversion Allows customers to upload content in a single format and automatically generate multiple streaming formats. Gives you a unique value-added service with automatic billing.
Streaming-server clustering Load-balancing and failover for all major streaming formats.
SCITX/CatallaTickets Allows customers to control access to their content. Works with all major streaming formats.


Specifications

Server Operating Systems

Supported Databases Media Formats Supported

Linux
SUN Solaris
Windows NT/2000
Mac OS X

MySQL
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
Other JDBC-compliant databases
QuickTime
Real Media
Windows Media
MPEG-4
MP3
Server Hardware Requirements Client Software Requirements Streaming Servers Supported
Starts with a single system and scale up.
Minimum 256 Ram
Minimum 800 MHz Processor
Minimum 500 MB free storage (plus space for movie data)
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later, or equivalent
Windows Media, Real, and QuickTime plug-ins are required to preview streaming media content in all formats
QuickTime Streaming Server
Darwin Streaming Server
RealServer
Microsoft Media Server
Apache (for progressive download)
Maximums
Depends on hardware capacity

 



 

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