Publishing and distribution

Below are some general requirements identified by the community related to publishing and distribution (derived from Requirement Outcomes From Planning Workgroups)

• Flexibility to encode and publish according to institution’s deadlines
• Integrate with multiple distribution repositories using standardized metadata mappings and open APIs
• Schedule release of media by date
• Ability to publish to multiple distribution channels and in multiple formats
• Ability to unpublish from multiple distribution channels
• Incorporate media on course page, ePortfolio, marketing
• Enable privacy, specify and restrict access
• Manage social network around media
• Notification when media is available

Distribution Channels

iTunes-U

• To use iTunes-U, it is necessary to apply for an administrator account
• Apple facilitates a support platform for iTunes-U

YouTube

YouTube is free for anyone who wants to upload videos. See the API to connect your sysem to YouTube.

• University of California Los Angeles has developed a video uploader utility and other processes to facilitate faculty and staff contributing content to UCLA on YouTube. 

Streaming servers

• The university of Osnabrueck uses Red5
• University of Saskatchewan uses Wowza
• Other Media Streaming servers are Flash Media Server and GStreamer (Boxstream? Flumotion?)
• Cambridge University uses an Helix server as they explain here.
• Tel Aviv University uses Microsoft Media Server 2003
• Columbia University uses a Darwin Streaming Server, which is the open source version of Apple's QuickTime streaming server.