The LifeSize Video Center is an appliance to record and/or stream a video conferencing meeting LIVE to all others who are not in the meeting.
The LifeSize Video Center is a 1U rack mount appliance with 2 Intel Xeon processors and two 1TB hard disks at RAID 1 configuration.
It can record and/or stream a few point-to-point and multipoint video conference sessions together in 720p30 HD video resolution. The recorded sessions can be used for on-demand playback whenever required.
The LifeSize Video Center will work with a LifeSize video conferencing system which acts as an streaming encoder at the event venue. The LifeSize video conferencing system will transcode the video and audio captured into 720p30/480p30/360p30 IP packages and send the packages to LifeSize Video Center for recording and streaming in flash format.
All the LifeSize video conferencing systems have the LIVE streaming encoder capability built-in. Thanks to the powerful processors used and ample memory of the LifeSize video conferencing codec. This approach eliminates the requirement of an external streaming encoder connected back-to-back with the video conferencing codec.
To start a LIVE streaming and/or recording, users just press the blue button on the remote control unit of the LifeSize video conferencing system. This can be done while the LifeSize video conferencing system is in a point-to-point or multipoint video conferencing calls, or not in a video conferencing call at all.
The LifeSize video conferencing system will then send a stream to the LifeSize Video Center for recording and/or LIVE streaming to all other users.
The LifeSize Video Center is able to record 20 sessions in 720p30 HD resolution concurrently and stored these 720p30 HD resolution recordings up to 2,600 hours. While recording, users can stream the sessions LIVE in 720p30 HD resolution as well; up to 1,000 viewers can be supported. Alternatively, the recorded sessions can be used for on-demand playback and up to 350 viewers can playback the recorded videos in 720p30 HD resolution. If the 720p30 HD resolution is required, the LifeSize Video Center can support a lot more storage and LIVE/on-demand viewers.
The proposed LifeSize Video Center supports the following capacity:
- storage of recording:
- 2,600hrs in 720p30 HD resolution
- 5,200hrs in 480p30 resolution
- 7,800hrs in 360p30 resolution
- concurrent recordings:
- 20 sessions in 720p30 HD resolution
- 40 sessions in 480p30 resolution
- more than 50 sessions in 360p30 resolution
- LIVE viewers:
- 1000 for 720p30 HD resolution stream
- 2000 for 480p30 resolution stream
- 2500 for 360p30 resolution stream
- On-demand viewers:
- 350 for 720p30 HD resolution stream
- 400 for 480p30 resolution stream
- 450 for 360p30 resolution stream
At the receiving ends, streaming viewers can use either Windows-based, Linux-based or Mac computers with web browsers (e.g. IE 7, Firefox 3.5, Chrome 1.2 or later) to receive the streams. All videos will be playback by flash player. First of all, the viewers will have to use browser to reach the portal page of LifeSize Video Center. Upon successful logon to the LifeSize Video Center, viewers will arrive at the LifeSize Video Center portal page (see below) and they can select the LIVE streams or recorded videos.
Once a selection has been made, the viewers will then be able to see the LIVE streams or recorded videos.
The video will be played as shown on layout below.
Viewers can also click on a button at the bottom right hand corner of the video window to enlarge the video window full screen.
If presentation slides or other graphic presentations from an external notebook PC are available, viewers will see 2 video windows (i.e. presenter’s video and presentation slides) on their PC screen. The video layout can be changed anytime by clicking a bottom right hand corner, and this change will not affect other viewers.
Please visit the online demo portal at http://videocenter.lifesize.com to understand the features and capability of LifeSize Video Center better.