Interactive - Update

After speaking with Alex we have gathered a list of things completed and a list of things to do.

From last term here is what was achieved:

• Installed the Red5 server, this streams to our flash pods.

• Set up the proxy server for the trolley network, so that the internet can be accessed from one box.

• We have a much better understanding of how the Red5 streaming service should work and how the flash application (pods interface) will play the streams.

• The trolley has been racked correctly.

• The server and client are also setup, with the server now running the DHCP service required.

Things that need to be done:

• We need to either develop a server side application to the pods using one of the demos provided by Red5, an alternative would be to use Adobe's Flash Media Streaming Server, although we need to talk to sponsorship about this.

• For the client side of this application, Max will need to come up with an interface that we can use to bridge the gap to provide the data that he required.

• We need to set up the FCS workflow, James Uren said that he would help out with this in the first week back. All of the information to be used as metadata also needs to be gathered.

• We need to run power to all of the equipment in the racks.

• A live stream needs to be sent to Narrowstep via the Cisco media encoder, Max will need to re-skin the interface of the Narrowstep player to re-brand it to 2010 Rave Live.

• Jon was having trouble configuring the net booting process, we also found out that the Dell towers we are using as the pods might not be able to net boot at all, this may simply be an upgrade of the BIOS or revert back to booting from the USB pens.

• We need to work out the ports required.

There is still a lot of work to be done and we believe that the only way to break the back of this is to get the first years involved. This requires us sitting down and working out what roles they can fill. We also need to contact Max about getting access to the Media Bugs database and the Rave Live sign-up page on Media Bugs, this should preferably be done before we go back next week.