Fantastic Corporation: has developed a system to offer video streaming to GPRS
11.09.2002 (14:03)
Wireless Mobile Services
Working with Hewlett-Packard as a systems
integrator, The Fantastic Corporation has developed a
system to offer video streaming to GPRS mobile
handsets. This system was successfully tested at one
of Europe's largest wireless telecommunications
operators. The service offers live video streaming and
Video On Demand (VOD) accessible via a portal. The
initial pilot used sports video clips to demonstrate the
innovative capabilities available on the latest
generation color mobile phones and Personal Digital
Assistants.
Video to wireless devices
Fantastic is providing the distribution mechanism that interfaces with
the content management system to move data and live video from
the head end of the network to the local Point Of Presence (POP) on
the GPRS network. The distribution functionality is robust and flexible
enough to accommodate various data types: video files for VOD,
streams for live transmissions and XML meta data for portal updates.
Fantastic BroadSphere is used to broadcast MPEG1 live video
streaming together with XML data to the Fantastic edge server
MediaACE. The live feeds are then passed through a transcoding
module for transformation into the appropriate formats for specific
media players and for VOD the files are delivered in MPEG4 format
to a third party video server installed at each POP. Both services are
provided with different third party video servers for delivery to the
mobile user device.
The XML meta data associated with each type of video is used to
automatically generate updates to the portal page viewed by the end
user which details the available content.
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