Streaming Media System Needs

1. Player Abilities

1.1. Works on mobile devices

1.2. Can be embedded on all PCC sites

1.3. Skinnable

1.4. Playlists

1.5. Audio descriptions

1.6. Plugins

1.7. Accessible

1.7.1. Captions added to existing media

1.7.2. Flexible caption display

1.7.3. Works with third party transcription/caption service

1.7.4. Searchable Captions

2. Administrative Tracking

2.1. Copyright

2.1.1. Schedule use of media based on copyright

2.1.2. Permissions Tracking

2.2. Standard metadata schema

2.3. analytics

2.3.1. individual media use

2.3.2. storage and bandwidth

2.4. Cost centers for billing

3. Access

3.1. Restrict playback to single course

3.2. permissions to individual video

3.3. Faculty can upload files

3.4. System supports a variety of authenticated roles

3.5. Single sign on from PCC systems

3.6. Students can upload files

4. Service Abilities

4.1. Transcoding

4.2. Device detection

4.3. Bitrate selection

4.4. Global search

4.5. Moderator queue

4.6. Thumbnails

4.7. Batch Jobs

4.8. Public or Private Tagging