Content manager Videocharger installation and integration for multiplatforms / [Peter Wilkinson ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilkinson, Peter.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Streaming technology (Telecommunications).

Computer network resources.

Content manager videoCharger.

Physical Description:

xviii, 280 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[San Jose, Calif.] : IBM International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. IBM Content Manager VideoCharger for Multiplatforms

1.1 VideoCharger overview

1.2 VideoCharger server introduction

1.3 VideoCharger components

1.3.1 Presentation Formatter Server

1.3.2 Data Pump

1.3.3 Controller

1.4 How the components interact to stream assets

1.5 Storing assets: A multimedia optimized file system

1.6 Multimedia archive

Chapter 2. What's new in VideoCharger Version 8.1

2.1 Supported video and audio formats

2.2 What's new in VideoCharger Version 8.1 for AIX

2.3 What's new in VideoCharger 8.1 for Windows

Chapter 3. Installation of VideoCharger server

3.1 Overview

3.2 VideoCharger for AIX

3.2.1 Before you start

3.2.2 Step 1: Applying operating system fixes

3.2.3 Step 2: Installing DCE 3.1 client

3.2.4 Step 3: Installing the Web server

3.2.5 Step 4: Configuring AIX

3.2.6 Step 5: Installing VideoCharger for AIX

3.2.7 Step 6: Installing the latest fixes of VideoCharger for AIX

3.2.8 Step 7: Various configurations

3.2.9 Step 8: Configuring VideoCharger for AIX

3.3 VideoCharger for NT

3.3.1 Before you start

3.3.2 Step 1: Applying operating system fixes

3.3.3 Step 2: Installing Web server

3.3.4 Step 3: Configuring NT

3.3.5 Step 4: Installing VideoCharger for NT/2000

3.3.6 Step 5: Installing VideoCharger for NT/2000 service release

3.3.7 Step 6: Various configurations

3.3.8 Step 7: Configuring VideoCharger for NT

3.3.9 Quick install guide of VideoCharger for NT

3.4 Test run the system

3.4.1 Starting the servers

3.4.2 Uploading content

3.4.3 Video-on-Demand (VOD)

3.4.4 Multicasting an existing asset

3.4.5 Real-time encoding and streaming.

3.4.6 Asset staging

Chapter 4. Performance considerations

4.1 Overview

4.2 Host capacity

4.2.1 CPU

4.2.2 Disk subsystem

4.3 Network capacity

4.3.1 Popular network technologies

4.3.2 Multicast

4.3.3 Dynamic path MTU discovery

4.3.4 Quality of Service (QoS) for IP networks

4.4 Scalability

4.4.1 Choosing the best configuration for your needs

4.5 Admission control, QoS

4.5.1 VideoCharger admission control

4.5.2 Admission control on AIX

4.5.3 Admission control on Windows NT

4.6 Initial VideoCharger performance measurement

4.6.1 Project description

4.6.2 Benchmark and metric description

4.6.3 Scenario 1: VideoCharger for Windows NT

4.6.4 Scenario 2: VideoCharger for AIX

4.7 Summary of performance results

4.8 Summary

4.9 Don't forget about the hubs

Chapter 5. VideoCharger integration with Content Manager

5.1 Introduction

5.2 New VideoCharger and Content Manager installation

5.3 Adding VideoCharger to Content Manager system

5.4 Changing VideoCharger servers in Content Manager

5.5 Content Manager on AIX

5.6 Common trouble areas

5.7 Content Manager media specific tables

Chapter 6. VideoCharger integration in a Tivoli environment

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Software Requirements

6.3 Setting up the Tivoli resource models

6.4 Verifying integration in the Tivoli environment

Chapter 7. Troubleshooting

7.1 Troubleshooting on Windows

7.1.1 Symptom: Cannot select video

7.1.2 Symptom: No video appearing

7.1.3 Symptom: Poor video quality

7.1.4 Problems with content loading

7.2 Troubleshooting on AIX

7.2.1 Basic check list

7.2.2 Symptom: Cannot select video

7.2.3 Symptom: No video appearing

7.2.4 Symptom: Poor video quality

7.2.5 Problems with content loading on AIX

7.2.6 Problems with the Multimedia File System.

7.3 Error and trace logs

7.3.1 NT VideoCharger server

7.3.2 AIX VideoCharger server

7.3.3 VideoCharger player

7.4 Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

7.4.1 VideoCharger server for NT

7.4.2 VideoCharger server for AIX

7.4.3 Encoding support

7.4.4 Video Charger player

7.4.5 QuickTime player

7.4.6 VideoCharger with Content Manager

Chapter 8. Customer scenarios

8.1 Scenario 1

8.1.1 Environment

8.1.2 Business benefits

8.1.3 Solution details

8.2 Scenario 2

8.2.1 Environment

8.2.2 Business benefits

8.2.3 Solution details

8.3 Scenario 3

8.3.1 Environment

8.3.2 Business benefits

8.3.3 Solution details

Chapter 9. Backing up a VideoCharger configuration

9.1 Backing up a VideoCharger system

9.2 Restoring VideoCharger from backup

9.2.1 Introduction to backup installations

9.2.2 Start the system

9.2.3 Prompted installation

9.3 Backing up or restoring a file system configuration

9.4 Backing up and restoring assets

9.5 Backing up and restoring Content Manager

Chapter 10. IBM VideoCharger solution architecture

10.1 VideoCharger architecture overview

10.1.1 Video vocabulary and the process

10.1.2 The balance of video distribution bandwidth

10.1.3 Video solution segments

10.1.4 Where does the VideoCharger solution fit?

10.1.5 IBM VideoCharger architecture

10.1.6 Video distribution mechanisms

10.2 Market segments using video

10.2.1 Industries where VideoCharger based solutions are used

10.3 Example application in the entertainment industry

10.3.1 Background

10.3.2 Goals

10.4 Proposed solution

10.4.1 Ingest

10.4.2 Storage

10.4.3 Retrieval

10.4.4 The ingest operation

10.4.5 Storage

10.4.6 The Edit/Selection operation

10.4.7 The MPEG-2 recall operation

10.4.8 System and data reliability and backup considerations.

Chapter 11. VideoCharger streaming through a firewall

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Setup

11.3 Configuring the firewall

11.3.1 Define networks objects

11.3.2 Defining connections

11.3.3 Defining services

11.3.4 Defining rules

11.3.5 Defining permissions

11.4 Conclusion

Appendix A. Environment, procedures, and technical tips

Overview of creating video clips

Capturing video clips

Editing video clips

Codecs

Encoding video clips

Tips to create video

Summary of our video creation experiments

Environment - hardware configurations

Appendix B. Sample VideoCharger configurations

7043-140 VideoCharger server for AIX (small-level)

Hardware

Software

7025-F40 Video Charger server (medium-level)

7026-H50 Video Charger server (high-level)

VideoCharger server for NT (small-level)

Netfinity 3000 VideoCharger server (medium-level)

Netfinity 7000 VideoCharger server (high-level)

Sample questionnaire for configuring VideoCharger

Appendix C. VideoCharger sizing on AIX

Configuring VideoCharger memory

Configuring VideoCharger disk storage requirements

Configuring VideoCharger sample disk bandwidth

System commands for VideoCharger on AIX

Appendix D. Filter architecture (deFilter)

Examples of filters

Example 1: Layered multicast for heterogeneous networks

Example 2: Adaptive MPEG RTP streaming to the QT5 player

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Glossary

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"November 2002."

"Applies to version 8.1 ... program number 5724-B19"--T.p. verso.

"SG24-6410-00."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263) and index.

OCLC:

560312175