As many of you are aware, Stanford ITS is phasing out its streaming video hosting service. This page is intended to gather the requirements of our campus to determine viable alternatives. Please add your requirements by posting comments below.
Please follow the first example to tell us what video you have that needs serving (streaming or otherwise).
Human Biology
moth@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Humbio related videos, mostly of events and interview, but also a professionally made promotional video for the program.
Source of videos: Various local, Stanford Video, Professional, etc.
Number of videos: More than 20
Filesize of videos: ~100MB-1Gig each, >5Gigs total
File format(s): Real Video and Qicktime
Streaming or Progressive download? Both
Where currently hosted? Possibly moving to VPUE Realserver
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): ??
Link to your website(s) holding video: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/humbio/cgi-bin/?q=video
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Promotion and archiving of Humbio sponsored events, alumni outreach, etc.
Stanford Biodesign Program
christine.kurihara@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Biodesign Innovation Course Material and various Biodesign sponsored events
Source of videos: Course that has been filmed for last 7 years + several Biodesign events
Number of videos: 248 videos
Filesize of videos: avg. video 1.5 hrs = ~372 hours of video; ~74GB total
File format(s): wmv, dvd, flash, virage
Streaming or Progressive download? streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS, SCPD, one external site through LMA
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo):
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://biodesign.stanford.edu/bdn/resources/video.jsp (a sampling)
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: We host current course videos for our students, but also have several years' worth - we would like to cull the best of these to compliment a textbook that our professors are authoring. We also have a series of events we hold called "From the Innovator's Workbench" which are a great resource for people in the medical device arena.
H-STAR, SCIL, Media-X, Wallenberg Hall, WGLN
bobsmith@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Guest speakers, events, classroom content, special projects.
Source of videos: Locally produced.
Number of videos: Currently, dozens/scores. :)
Filesize of videos: All under 1GB
File format(s): QuickTime
Streaming or Progressive download? Both, mostly streaming.
Where currently hosted? Two in-house streaming servers.
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): $0/gb/mo
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://www.stanford.edu/~bobsmith/RUNQT.html as an example.
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Dissemination of local content.
Program Name Mechanical Engineering, Smart Product Design
carryer@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Lecture recordings and tutorials
Source of videos: home grown
Number of videos: approx 65
Filesize of videos: typ: 30MB
File format(s): WMV
Streaming or Progressive download? Streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): ??
Link to your website(s) holding video: They are on coursework under the various classes (me218a,b,c, EE118 )
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Studente use to review lecture material and to learn how to use various software tools in our lab
Stanford University Libraries, History of Science and Technology Collections
crwohl@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Interviews with Silicon Valley innovators; historical footage or documentaries; and department hosted events and panels.
Source of videos: Donors film and edit content; archival footage; or events and panels filmed by Stanford Video. We are very interested in keeping continuity with Virage.
Number of videos: ca. 70
Filesize of videos: various - average 200MB
File format(s): .ram, virage
Streaming or Progressive download? Streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS/Streaming Media Services
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): $0.01/mb per month
Link to your website(s) holding video: as an example - http://silicongenesis/complete_listing.html
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: We preserve and provide access to collections in the History of Science and Technology. Keyword searchable interviews of historically relevant individuals or events are central to that mission.
d.School
ugeva@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Various design activities, learning and teaching, such as student team work (e.g., needfinding and benchmarking research, prototyping, presentations), classroom activities (presentations, talks, discussions, warm-up activities, improvisation, instructions), meetings documenting, interviews, prototype testing, design reviews.
Source of videos: Videos may be produced by students (in the field or in house), d.School staff or hired professionals.
Number of videos: 150 and growing of which 10-25% will be streamed
Filesize of videos: ranged from 1min to 1 hr. (any longer is split into smaller segments)
File format(s): various QuickTime and MediaPlayer compatible
Streaming or Progressive download? both
Where currently hosted? d.School (in-house) server
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): (n/a)
Link to your website(s) holding video: (access is restricted)
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Videos are used
(a) as a design tool for data collection, prototyping, presentation and documentation;
(b) as a teaching tool, documenting the design process and how it is being taught;
(c) teaching and learning review for course development;
(d) provide material for faculty and student presentations on and off campus (e.g., conferences);
(e) historical archive of the d.School activities.
Stanford Technology Ventures Program
fglick@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Entrepreneurship related videos
Source of videos: Weekly lecture series
Number of videos: 1,200+ video clips
Filesize of videos: 5-20MB per video
File format(s): Flash, MPEG-4, Windows Media
Streaming or Progressive download? Progressive download
Where currently hosted? On our web server
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): N/A
Link to your website(s) holding video: Educators Corner
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: The website provides resources to educators and entrepreneurs around the world. We are interested in exploring streaming Flash options for some of our long-form content.
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences/Summer Institute in Political Psychology
vijoy@stanford
Subject matter of videos: Lectures, Guest speakers, Summer Programs, Special Events
Source of videos: Live recordings
Number of videos: 15-25 currently, looking to grow
Filesize of videos: 60-150 MB on avg
File format(s): QuickTime
Streaming or Progressive download? both, mostly streaming
Where currently hosted? in-house QTSS
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo):N/A
Link to your website(s) holding video: N/A
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: ] These were part and parcel of the virtual Summer Institute in Political Psychology. Also, we use the recordings of special events and guest speakers to share with a broader audience.
Program Name: Stanford Open Education Initiative
Email: stocker@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Course lectures and faculty lectures and educational videos produced by Stanford for the general public.
Source of videos: All seven schools and interdisciplinary programs.
Number of videos: Currently about 200, but will expand significantly.
Filesize of videos: 5MB - 250MB
File format(s): MPEG-4 H.264, Flash
Streaming or Progressive download? both
Where currently hosted? iTunes U for download.
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo):
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: The Open Education Initiative is a project funded by the President's Office to produce open educational resources from Stanford, in the same spirit as MIT OCW, Yale Open Courses, Berkeley Webcast.
ATS / Language Center (EFS)
kenro@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: student presentations
Source of videos: in-class video capture of presentation practice
Number of videos: anywhere from 50-300 per quarter
Filesize of videos: 20-100MB
File format(s): at the moment .mov or .rm
Streaming or Progressive download? Now, progressive download, but that limits us to short videos
Where currently hosted? CW drop box
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): n/a
Link to your website(s) holding video: coursework
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Weekly presentation practice is captured for each student, then uploaded to their dropbox so that only the instructor and the student have access to them. Both can review the videos: instructors can point out areas for improvement in in-person playback sessions and students can write reflections. We must maintain the privacy characteristics of this process, but the progressive download limits us to about 10 min per video. Ideally, this should be streaming. Video is captured in whatever classroom the course is scheduled.
ATS / Language Center (EFS)
kenro@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: various
Source of videos: Faculty and community lectures in summer intensive program.
Number of videos: 12 per summer. Right now we have an archive of about 50.
Filesize of videos: about 100MB
File format(s): .mov, .rm
Streaming or Progressive download? streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS streaming services and Language Lab QTSS
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): ?
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/efs/2006/summer/index.html
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: These lectures happen twice a week and are part of the intensive summer ESL program. It is very important that they be posted as soon as possible after the completion of the lecture so that instructors can use them as teaching material (quizzes, summary assignments, discussions, etc). However, they should not be webcast – otherwise students would simply not show up. We have been capturing them using a MiniDV camera attached to a MacBook Pro, posting them to our Quicktime Streaming Server. These files were then sent to ITS streaming services at a later date. In addition to ITS shutting down streaming, the QTSS box is getting old and needs to be replaced or scrapped.
ATS / Language Center
kenro@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: language textbook videos
Source of videos: author (Stanford instructor)
Number of videos: about 300
Filesize of videos: 1-100MB
File format(s): at the moment .rm
Streaming or Progressive download? streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): ?
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://www.stanford.edu/class/hebrew/mmedia/index.html
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: supports the textbook, and thus many courses at Stanford, as well as at other institutions. The media content is a central part of the curriculum in the textbook.
John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists (Dept. of Communication)
jjwalker@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Lectures/Symposia on Journalism topics
Source of videos: Filmed at Stanford by Stanford Video
Number of videos: ~30
Filesize of videos: ~300MB/vid
File format(s): rm, transitioning to streaming FLV
Streaming or Progressive download? streaming
Where currently hosted? ITS
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo):
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://knight.stanford.edu/lectures/
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: Resource for journalism community on issues facing journalism. Hilights the quality of speakers and discussions that the program attracts.
Professor, Department of Chemistry
zare@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos:Various chemistry- and physics-related presentations
Source of videos: Various, including local news channels, and homemade presentations
Number of videos: approximately 12
Filesize of videos: 10Mb -- 1Gb, total just a few Gb
File format(s): WMV, RealPlayer, AVI, and Quicktime
Streaming or Progressive download? both
Where currently hosted? offline except for a few smaller ones on the Zarelab website
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo): N/A
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/news.html
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: I have much done much work on general science presentations and have captured several such presentations on video.
irector, Stanford Professional Publishing Courses
hbrady@stanford.edu
Subject matter of videos: Webinars on publishing and Web publishing
Source of videos: Webinar series that has been going on 4x/year since 2003
Number of videos: 24 videos, one hour each
Filesize of videos: about one hour each, don't know exact file sizes
File format(s): real media
Streaming or Progressive download? streaming, I think
Where currently hosted? our section of the Stanford servers
If paying, current price ($/gb/mo):
Link to your website(s) holding video: http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/virtual/archived.html
Brief description of how video content fits your program's mission: We host courses and workshops for publishing professionals throughout the year--similar to the GSB's executive education programs, but ours are specifically targeted for magazine, book and Web publishing professionals. Our program has been at Stanford since 1978, and we are part of Stanford Libraries, which also includes Stanford University Press and Highwire Press.
Student Services: Interdisciplinary Major in American Studies
jhafner@stanford.edu
Program Name: American Studies
Subject Matter:Speakers and Panelists at the Paul Laurence Dunbar Conference
Source of videos: Locally Produced
Number of videos: ca. 12 hours of video - on 10 dsks
File format: QuickTime / Real Player
Streaming - hosted at ITS
Link to website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/HSP/AmStud/
Video content used to publicize conference and to inform about P L Dunbar.
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