These links are not part of the VoDKA project, but provided here for background on streaming protocols, standards, products and practices.

• Riding the media bits, Leonardo Chiariglione's excellent outlook of the MPEG-4 standards and digital media in general. A must read.

• Protocols for Multimedia over IP Documentation
  • Multimedia over IP: RSVP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP (pdf)
    • RTP: Real-Time Protocol, RTCP: Real-Time Control Protocol
      • RTP Page at Columbia
      • RFC 1889, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
      • RFC 1890, RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control
      • RTP PayLoad Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video
      • RTP PayLoad Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams
      • Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio
    • RTSP: Real-Time Streaming Protocol (postscript)
    • RSVP: Resource ReSerVation Protocol
      • RSVP Page at ISI
      • RTSP Page at Columbia
      • RFC 2205, Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
      • RFC 2206, RSVP Management Information Base using SMIv2 (RFC 2206)
      • RFC 2207, RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows
      • RFC 2208, RSVP Version 1 Applicability Statement Some Guidelines on Deployment
      • RFC 2209, RSVP Version 1 Message Processing Rules
  • A Framework for the delivery of MPEG-4 over IP-based Protocols (Expires: May 16, 2001) (local, remote)
  • JavaTM Media Framework API
  • An IBM RTSP Toolkit
• Erlang
  • Erlang Home (Spanish Mirror)
  • Erlang Systems (Erlang/OTP Home)
  • Erlang-FR (French)
  • Erlang Wikie
  • BlueTail
  • HIgh Performance Erlang
  • ErlVer: Verification of Erlang Programs
  • Erlang-questions Mailing List Archive
  • Books:
    • Concurrent Programming in Erlang (first part)
    • Erlang In Real Time
  • Papers:
    • Erlang User Conference (2000) (1999)
    • A pragmatic approach to compilation of Erlang
    • Performance Measurements and Process Optimization for Erlang
    • A Platform for Secure Mobile Agents
    • A Graphical User Interface for Erlang
    • SafeErlang
    • Extending Erlang for Safe Mobile Code Execution
    • Structured communication for concurrent languages
    • Protocol programming in Erlang using binaries
    • Towards an Event Modeling Language
• Video Servers Implementations
  • Business world
    • Specialized companies
      • Diva TV (Note: they have gone bankrupt by now)
      • Kasenna - spin-off from SGI. Seemingly related to the former SGI webforce mediabase?
      • Sea Change
      • nCube (Using Oracle Video Server)
      • TeraCast
      • MidStream
    • Oracle Video Server
      • Version 3.0 PDFs (Local)
      • Documentacion Version 2.0.7 HTML
    • IBM
      • IBM Digital Library VideoCharger - Doc
      • Tiger Shark -- A scalable file system for multimedia
      • Bamba--Audio and video streaming over the Internet
      • VoD Experience - IBM Japan
      • Scalable Stream Servers
    • Philips MP4Net and WebCine
      • mpeg-4player main page
      • WebCine Server
    • Sun StorEdge Media Central
      • StorEdge Overview
    • Microsoft
      • Distributed Schedule Management in the Tiger Video Fileserver (base of the Windows Media Server)
      • Introduction into Advanced Streaming Format 1.0(original en http://divx.euro.ru/asf-1.0.htm)
      • Windows Media Services FAQ
      • Intelligent Streaming with Windows Media Services
      • Streaming Methods: Web Server vs. Streaming Media Server
      • Windows Media Content Development and Deployment
      • Windows Media Server Unicast Streaming Test
      • Tuning Your Windows Media Server
      • High Bit Rate and Frame Rate Encoding
      • Audio for Streaming: A Content Creation Scenario
    • Real
      • Real Server 4 Linux
    • Darim's Multimedia World (MPEG Enconding & Streaming. MPEGator)
  • Research world
    • Danubio Streaming Architecture
    • University of Darmstadt, Germany
      • Design of a Multiformat Capable Cache for Video Streaming, Gunnar Gudmundsson
      • KOM Player
    • Darwin Streaming Server  (Open Source Projects at Apple) Server technology which allows you to send streaming QuickTime data to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and
      
      RTSP protocols. It is based on the same code as Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server.
      
      
    • Stony Brook Video Server Project, New York
      • Project Home Page (1996-1997)
      • Andrew Shuvalov Project Pages (1998-1999)
      • Master Project: Andrew Shuvalov "Real-Time TV Program Distribution and Storage Server with Keyword Access Capability," Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400, August 1999.
    • EIVIS - Embedded Interactive VIdeo Server
      • Project Description
      • On the Design of a Dynamic Distributed Real-Time Environment
    • A Shared Memory VOD server (University of Minnesota)
      • Papers:
        • Design and Evaluation of a Generic Software Architecture for On-Demand Video Servers.
        • A Shared Memory VOD server
        • Building Video-on-Demand Servers
        • Cluster Placement: A Data Placement Scheme for A Mass Storage System of Video-On-Demand Servers
        • Performance of A Mass Storage System for Video-On-Demand
        • Performance of A Storage System for Supporting Different Video Types and Qualities
        • Supporting Continuous Media: Is SSA Beter Than SCSI?
    • VOD Server, A. Ferodoba, Northampton
      • Video-On-Demand (A. Ferodoba)
    • Elvira Video Server and VideoSTAR Project, Noruega
      • Home page
      • Video Server on an ATM Connected Cluster of Workstations
    • VOD en Berkeley:
      • Papers:
        • A Distributed Hierarchical Video-On-Demand System
        • A Distributed Hierarchical Storage Manager for a Video-On-Demand System
    • Brigham Young University, Utah
      • Implementation of VOD using a MPEG client-server model and ATM networks.
    • Other papers:
      • VOD on the SB.PRAM -- Universität des Saarlandes
      • Hierarchical Storage Systems for Interactive Video-On-Demand. Technical Report de Stanford.
      • Scheduling and Replacement Policies for a Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Server -- Universidad de Hong Kong
      • On the Use of Multicast Delivery to Provide a Scalable and Interactive Video-on-Demand Service -- Georgia
      • A MPEG video structure analysis scheme and its application to hierarchical video browser.
      • Data base Design Principles for Placement of Delay-Sensitive Data on Disks.
      • Response Time Driven Multimedia Data Objects Allocation for Browsing Documents in Distributed Enviroments.
      • Scheduling and bandwidth allocation for the distribution of archived video in VOD systems. -- Arizona, Maryland, Northeastern Universities
      • Using heterogeneous disks on a multimedia storage system with random data allocation. -- UCLA
      • Optimized regional caching for on-demand data delivery. -- Saskatchewan (Canada), Wi
        sconsin.
      • Operating system support fo a videa-on-demand file service. DEC.
      • Deterministic Load-Balancing Schemes for Disk-Based Video-On-Demand Storage Servers (Local) (Original web)
• Companies related to VoD
  • The MPEG-4 Industry Forum
  • A Review of Video Streaming over the Internet
  • Optibase
  • Media Development Centre Video on Demand
  • Icontact: Video On Demand
  • Envivio
  • Convergence
  • SpriteNETCampus Architecture for Internet2 Video
  • About VOD
  • MediaHawk Video Servers for True Interactive Video-On-Demand (IVOD) Applications
  • Bitcasting
  • Streaming Media World
  • Streaming News
• MPEG & DVD General Information
  • DVD Information
    • FAQ (espaņol) (english)
  • MPEG Information
    • MPEG home page
    • MPEG Pointers and Resources
    • Introduction to MPEG (FAQ)
    • THE MPEG-FAQ [Version 4.1 - 1. June 1996]
  • Encoders
    • MPEGator Pro
• MPEG clients & libraries
  • Libmpeg1 Debian Package
  • Libmpeg2 MPEG-2 Library
    • Used by the: XMovie.
  • Berkeley MPEG Tools Berceley MPEG Player, MPEG Encoder. Debian package ucbmpeg-play contains the Berkeley MPEG Video Software Decoder. An improved version has been developed at University of Minnesota's Geometry Center
    • mpeg_play A portable software-only MPEG-1 video decoder.
  • MpegTV SDK is a Software Development Kit that allows an X11 application to play real-time MPEG streams (Video+Audio) from any source (network URL, file, pipe, etc). Support for direct control of the MpegTV player is via a simple API. The SDK includes application examples with source code. COMERCIAL LICENSE: $95 per user. MPEG-1.
  • mtv mtv - MPEG Player for Linux & Unix que usa MpegTV SDK.
  • GamTV MPEG Player for X using MpegTV SDK.
  • SDL MPEG Player Library (SMPEG) based in UC Berkeley's mpeg_play software decoder. Requires, at least, version 1.1.1 of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). LGPL.
    • XMPS
    • Mpegorion
    • ZZPlayer Based on SMPEG library.
  • Other MPEG clients.
    • The Mild Flavor(tm) player
    • mpeg4ip
    • MPEG-2 Video Codec (with Source Code) Developed as didactic example of MPEG.
    • Xanim
    • Splay is a player which can play MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3 and Wave file for Linux! It was originated from maplay 1.2+ for Win95. X-interface is added.
    • Kpmg. A mp3 and mpeg video player for linux.
    • XTheater for GNOME.
• Other MPEG programs
  • MPEG Scissors v1.2 Edit, copy and paste of MPEG files.
  • Fame - Fast Assembly Mpeg Encoder
• Netscape Plug-ins
  • Plugger By Individual (Debian package: plugger)
  • MpegTV Plug-in By MpegTV, LLC (unmaintained)
  • Plugger can use mtv as reproductor. MTV plug-in is unmaintained.
• Cable magazines
  • Broadbandweek
  • CEDmagazine
  • Cable Today
  • Cable Carrier News
  • Cable Datacom News
  
  
  • Cisco Broadband Magazine