Media campus: A new interactive video experience for end users

Abstract

Media environment is nowadays evolving dynamically integrating a more active participation of users. In this context, Media campus consists of the first Spanish experience dealing with content delivery from high definition adapted terminals to mobile handheld devices, with both professional and user generated audiovisual contents. Media includes advanced and accessible interactivity. Media campus uses DVB-T/H hierarchy transmission along with AVC/H.264 coding to provide television services within Ciudad Universitaria area in Madrid. The delivery platform is composed by a Web portal that allows user generated media monitoring and exchanging, and a digital television head-end. User contributions are processed and adapted, and then the multimedia content of high interest is broadcasted to TV and mobile devices following DVB standards. From the experience new models and algorithms to control several aspects of the service will be test; automatic quality of service adjustment, consumption metrics and personalization of contents.