StarWorks-TV(tm) multicasting software provides 'one-to-many' multicasting services over your corporate enterprise network. Together, StarWorks-TV and a StarWorks® video server provide integrated live and stored multicasts over standard Ethernet local area networks or Hughes DirectPC for applications such as: distance learning, remote manufacturing process management, Wall Street live TV news for financial analysts/traders, security/surveillance systems, video conference multicasts, corporate communications, and emergency broadcasts.
StarWorks-TV consists of a Broadcaster application and a Viewer application that turn your LAN-based PC into a virtual TV. Both applications interact with a StarWorks video server. The StarWorks-TV Broadcaster station receives signals from an analog source (e.g., video tape recorder, cable tuner, camera), digitizes the signals, and multicasts them over the network 'airwaves.' (Stored digitized files from the StarWorks video server can also be multicast.) Hundreds of corporate Viewer stations-using any Video for Windows-compliant player- can simultaneously tune in to the 'on-the-air' channel to view the live multicast, as well as stored video from a StarWorks video server. The StarWorks video server acts as a StarWorks-TV Delivery Manager and handles the network resources, such as bandwidth reservation, network connections, etc. With the StarWorks-TV Viewer application, you can even schedule to record the multicast locally, or to the StarWorks video server.
StarWorks-TV applications support the Video for Windows interface, use industry-standard video formats (Indeo, MPEG, motion JPEG), and take advantage of existing networks. StarWorks-TV also includes tools for multimedia application developers to incorporate live video into their custom applications.
SPARC-based server: SPARCstation (10, 20) or SPARCserver (10, 20, 1000, 2000) uniprocessor only, Solaris 2.3, 1 MB SuperCache, 128MP RAM, 120 MB free space in disk partition; Fast SCSI-2 Buffered Ethernet (FSBE/S) interface and 1.05 GB or 2.1 GB Fast SCSI-2 disk drives (size and number depend on hours of video, aggregate bandwidth required, and parity option); SBus Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC) cards (number depends on number of clients attached to video server and size of video streams played over the network); monitor; keyboard; 4mm DAT, QIC-150 tape drive, or CD-ROM
Network interface adapter/driver with 4 Mbps (or higher) transfer rate
Sound card (WAVEIN for Broadcaster, WAVEOUT for Viewer)
To view Indeo format multicast, display hardware with 256 color support
For Indeo capture, Intel Smart Video Recorder card and driver
For motion JPEG multicast and playback, Diamond VideoStar Pro Card and Video for Windows capture driver (for multicast) or codec (for playback driver)
With 32 MB of RAM in the video server, 100 sessions
Starlight Networks, Inc.
205 Ravendale Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone 415 967-2774
Fax 415 967-0686