The RETAVIC project

MMDBMS and MMDB Servers

There are many Multimedia Database Management Systems which provide fast access to multimedia objects (MOs), but they do not support quality-of-service (QoS). The brief look through MMDB servers  available on the market shows the main characteristics - advantages and drawbacks.

Multimedia servers

Commercial

• RealNetworks Media Servers Family
  RealSystem Server : Intranet, Professional and Plus
• Netscape Media Server (only Audio)
• Millenium Media Server
  Millenium Media Server is an ideal solution for Millenium Multimedia Management System taht consists of Millenium Authoring Workstation and Millenium Display Engine.
• Lucent Technologies CineBlitz
• Dialogic CT Media Server
• SUN Media Server (Hardware)
• SGI Media Management and Serving
  Kasenna family, SGI VOD Server Solution, StudioCentral family, Keyvia and Key-Media Works, Ascential Software Media
• Iomojo Camera Server
  Camera streaming server, enables groups to collaborate within a webpage to do things like chat, control a robotic webcam, and grab pictures from the streaming video
• AV DFN-Expo Projekt (only in German)
• BroadWare IMS
  Interactive Media Server from BroadWare provides a highly scalable and reliable live streaming platform. It also offers a platform-independent Java based player.
• Windows Media Services
• Interactive Broadcast Platform
  The Emulive solution will allow for real-time production, delivery and reception of interactive media streams. It includes: Producer2001, Server4 and Xpresso5

OpenSource, Free or Non-commercial

• Darwin Streaming Server
  Apple QuicktTime/Darwin Streaming Server - the open source version, allows sending streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols (MacOS, Linux, Windows, Solaris)
• RealNetworks Media Servers Family
  RealSystem Server Basic
• camserv
  Video streaming through the web
• MEC4 Streaming Server
  Video On Demand Streaming Server based on a multithreaded architecture (Linux only)
• Oasis Media Streamer
  It streams mp3s, images (jpegs, gifs, ...), asf files, and swf files

Media network streaming technologies

• MPEG4IP
  A tool for streaming video and audio that is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions
• VideoLAN
  Its purposes are to set up and exploit a very high throughput network, in order to broadcast digital video and Video on Demand on the campus (a project at the École Centrale Paris)
• FFmpeg
  FFmpeg is the first complete and free Internet Live Audio and Video Broadcasting solution. FFMpeg aims at being the command line tool to handle audio and video. It is a "three-in-one" solution: VCR, en-/decoder, stream server.