 | VideoCharger V8 Servers on AIX, Windows 2000, 2003, or LINUX AIX® offers the high performance, reliability, and scalability to grow from a low-end server through a high-end parallel processor as your needs grow. - Clustering RS/6000® processors allows you to expand to video server complexes.
- Multimedia assets are supported by standard AIX file systems as well as the General Parallel File System (GPFS) which provides high performance by "striping" I/O across multiple disks.
Windows® 2000 or 2003 offers a single box solution with easy installation and configuration. - Embedded encoder support is provided, as well as the functions available on AIX.
- Multimedia assets are placed in the NT File System (NTFS) for storage and retrieval. The performance benefits of striping are available with options for configuring multiple disks into a striping group.
LINUX® offers an open source solution. Multiple players and files are supported, in addition to the VideoCharger® Player. - The Apple Quick Time Version 6 Player is supported on Apple and Windows platforms. To support streaming, Apple QuickTime assets must be "hinted" before being stored on the VideoCharger server.
- A downloaded transparent Java™ MPEG-4 client player applet is supported in the VideoCharger feature of Content Manager for Multiplatforms Version 8 .
V8 also enhances: - server filter support and security features, user exits, and trusted server authentication.
- file download capability with FTP file retrieval.
Stand-alone or integration configurations are supported: - Resource Managed Object server with IBM Content Manager for Multiplatforms. This uses the rich indexing capabilities of CM to define and manage the video files. It adds a streaming server to CM and adds rich indexing and data model to the streaming server.
- Stand-alone under an HTML application server. VideoCharger can manage stored video files by their file names and publish them to an HTML interface. This is especially suitable for web applications that need to drive a video stream from their defined page elements but don't yet require the indexing and storage management strengths provided by Content Manager.
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