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Provide a unique service to the members of
CCSU.
Provide a Streaming Voice Server that can be used for storing presentations, public announcements, speeches, and conferences.
Members will be able to access this service for research and general knowledge purposes.
Collaborative effort to add something of value to the school community.

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Allows us to combine our knowledge and experience learned from the school curriculum as well as from personal endeavors.
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Provides a challenge to create a tangible device to be used by the college community.

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Providing the hardware and software needed to build the server test bed
Installing operating system and Windows Media
Services
Troubleshooting of hardware and software
Testing of server functions
Documentation of steps needed to install Windows
Media Services

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Verifying the implementation and settings of the IIS software
Configuration of server services
Troubleshooting of hardware and software
Testing of server functions
Design of web interface

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Windows Media Services will be used in our project
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Steps for a file to be streamed
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Encode the file
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Create a metafile with a windows extension
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Adding tags to the HTML file so the user’s browser can recognize the streaming content

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Streaming media files:
Place any files that need to be available for streaming into the
WMRoot folder
Supported file types include: .asf, .wma, .wmv, .wm, .avi, .mid, .midi,
.mpg, .mpeg, .mp2, .mp3, .aif, .aiff, .wav
Non-supported file types: .ra, .rm, .ram, .mov, .qt, .mp4
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IIS files:
Files for the website are stored in the Inetpub folder

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Used in small businesses because it is cheaper
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Simply embed the hyperlink file pointing to the file on the server into the website using special
HTML coding
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When the user clicks on the hyperlink, their media player opens and they can view or listen to the file

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A program that comes with Windows Server
2003
Handles streaming audio and video to users logging into the server
Live broadcasting, intelligent streaming
(automatically adjusts to the users bit rate)
Web servers are not designed as well as WMS to handle streaming
Easy to configure because it is part of the OS

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By using an .mp3 extension for an audio file, 1 minute of audio is typically compressed into 1 MB
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By having a streaming server that just streams .mp3 files, your server can have a 10GB hard drive dedicated just to store the audio files and would provide the user with 10,000 minutes of streaming audio to select from
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Suggestion: Have your C: drive dedicated to holding the Operating
System and core components of the system. Have a second hard drive just for storing the files to be streamed by the user

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By using an .avi extension for a video file, 1 minute of video is typically compressed into 7
MB
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Using a 10GB hard drive on the server with just .avi files, the user can enjoy about 1,430 minutes of video files
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Decide what format the files on the server will be compressed in and calculate the space that will be needed

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RealNetworks Helix Server
Linux, Windows Server 2000/2003, and Solaris
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Apple QuickTime Streaming Server
OSX Server
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Apple Darwin Streaming Server (opensource)
OSX, Windows Server 2000/2003, and Red Hat 9 or above
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Other Opensource servers:
GNUMP3d, Icecast, and VideoLAN

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Possibly add more software to server to make it more dynamic such as PHP
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Add FTP services for downloading the file instead of streaming
Collaborate with programmers to develop code to work with Firefox/Netscape-based browsers
Test server applications for security holes, i.e.
IIS 6.0, Windows Media Services, and Windows
Server 2003 itself

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We’ve learned how to setup the Windows Media
Services on Server 2003 as well as integrating that service with IIS 6.0.
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Able to stream supported audio and video formats
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Identified what issues there are with using a browser other than Internet Explorer

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RealNetworks Helix Streaming Server
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/mediaservers/specifications.html
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Apple QuickTime Streaming Server http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/specs.html
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Apple Darwin Streaming Server http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming
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Icecast http://www.icecast.org/docs.php
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VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/videolan-faq-en.html

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Microsoft Windows Media Services http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/server/server.aspx
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PHP http://www.php.net
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GNUMP3d http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d