MEDIA 2008 - Streaming Technologies for Web Broadcasting

Programme

Day 1: Multimedia Technologies for Network Broadcasting

Morning

1. Presentation of theparticipants - overview of the training course
2. Basics on image/audio/video compression
   1. audio and video codec (code / decode)
3. Basics of real-time delivery of multimedia
   1. Interlacing
   2. Progressive Download vs. Streaming
   3. IP Multicas
4. Existing Multimedia Technologies
   1. JPG format
   2. MPEG formats
   3. MP3 format
   4. Real technology
   5. QuickTime technology
   6. Microsoft Windows Media
   7. Xdiv /DivX format
   8. Open source codecs and containers
   9. Practice: Using formats – installing and using players
5. Popular software and Conversion tools and techniques
   1. Practice: Converting between formats
   2. Practice: Troubleshooting problems: missing codec (Gspot utility)

Afternoon

1. Adobe Macromedia Flash technology
2. Microsoft Silverlight technology
3. TekTank Video platform: Overview
4. Publishing a video
   1. Practice: Publishing a video on the Internet

Day 2: Publishing on the Web

Morning

1. Web server basics
   1. Practice: Installing a development HTTP server
2. Ports, Firewall and Proxies
3. FTP, SFTP and SCP protocols for data transfer, available free products
   1. Practice: Publishing your website on the web

Afternoon

Day 3: Using Video Publishing Techniques

Morning

1. You Tube platform
   1. Practice: Publishing
2. Google Video platform
   1. Practice: Publishing
3. The Flash Video (FLV) Format
   1. FLV Players
   2. Practice: Converting a video into the FLV format  with FFMPEG
   3. Practice: Publishing embedded FLV files
   4. Practice: Publishing a FLV file with a different player
   5. Practice: Publishing embedded Flash objects

Afternoon

1. Content Management Systems
2. How to set-up and run a CMS: Wordpress
3. Customizing: Themes
4. Customizing: Plug-ins
   1. Practice: Transferring your CMS onto your provider’s web space
5. Project work

Day 4: Using Video Publishing Techniques

Morning

1. Understanding usage statistics
2. Promoting your web site: Search Engines
3. Google Analytics
4. Social Networking
   1. RSS feeds
   2. Podcasting
   3. PodCasting and VideoCasting
   4. Forum vs. Mailing Lists
   5. Tagging
   6. WEB 2.0
   7. XML vs. HTML

Afternoon

1. Presentation of project works
2. Group discussion
3. Evaluations and results