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A Real Interesting Approach to Streaming<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

by Ken Pyle (ken.pyle@viodi.com), <\/strong>Viodi, LLC<\/a><\/p>\n

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An advantage to living in the 11th largest city<\/strong> in the country, the so-called capitol of Silicon Valley, is that technology conferences and seminars are plentiful, making it pretty convenient for yours truly. So, I was a bit disappointed when I realized that I had to make the 45 mile trek to that smaller berg to the North, San Francisco, if I wanted to attend the Real Networks seminar. Actually, the drive isn\u2019t the problem, it is paying the $20 for 4 hours of parking and dealing with the chanting of protesters once one gets to Baghdad by the Bay [yes, for some reason, this is a nickname some people use for San Francisco]. Despite the drawbacks associated with its location, this seminar was well worth the time<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Like any conference, the most relevant presentations tend to be those given by users. This seminar featured some interesting case studies from two of Real\u2019s customers<\/strong>; football rivals University of California at Berkeley and Stanford. It was clear that Internet video is becoming a critical part of the learning environments in these institutes of higher learning. The speaker from Cal suggested that they had a million views<\/strong> in the Spring Semester of 2004; a view being defined as someone watching a clip for a minute or more. <\/p>\n

Currently, they store something like a terabyte of videos from various college courses. Students and others then have the opportunity to review classes they may have physically or mentally missed<\/strong>. One of Cal’s goals is to begin indexing<\/strong> the files, such that students can easily jump to a particular section of a lecture. Stanford<\/strong> is using the video capability to leverage their medical school<\/strong>. Demand is coming from the medical students, who often view the content in 2x and 4x real-time. <\/p>\n

Real\u2019s partner companies each gave brief presentations of their capabilities. They have partners that provide video capture solutions<\/strong>, Digital Asset Management<\/strong> solutions (critical when you have thousands of files like Cal), reporting<\/strong> and video presentation software. Serious Magic<\/strong> demonstrated a product that allows anyone to look like a professional newscaster. Serious Magic always has a fun presentation. <\/p>\n

Real has changed a great deal in the past few years. They have turned much of their code over to the open source community<\/strong>. This has spurred the porting of the Real player to multiple operating systems, including Linux, Palm and the Mac<\/strong>. Their server will not only play out Real files, but Quicktime, Windows and MPEG<\/strong> files as well. Art Hawkins<\/strong>, General Manager for North American System Sales suggested that their player and Helix Digital Rights Management solution will be available in future set-top boxes<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Another interesting thing about Real is that they have a service aspect to their business with over 1 million subscribers<\/strong> to their various video and music services. One of the most interesting of these services is Starz,<\/strong> which provides an SVOD service, for those people that have at least 600 kilobits per second downstream. This service makes 150 movies<\/strong> available for $12.95 per month<\/strong>. It is not too difficult to imagine this service being delivered to Internet-connected set-top boxes and, hence, being an alternative method<\/strong> of delivering video to the home. <\/p>\n

For those telcos<\/strong> that are interested in experimenting with the Real product<\/strong>, there is a starter server package and producer that allows entities with fewer than 50 people to host the Real Server. <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.realnetworks.com\/products\/programs\/business.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To move beyond experimentation and be able to support multiple media files, a server upgrade would be needed, as well as integration with some of the third-party management and reporting tools that Real featured in their seminar. If any IOCs<\/strong> are interested in experimenting with the Real package<\/strong> and need some videos, let me know and Viodi can supply some short video clips<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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