Multicasting a video to a plurality of clients based on a single stream

摘要

A federated media server system. The federated media server system may include a plurality of media servers. A first media server may be coupled to a second media server over a network. The first media server may also be coupled to a third media server over the network. Additionally, the second and third media servers may be coupled to a plurality of respective clients. The first media server may be configured to record video, e.g., videoconferences, and stream recordings to clients and/or the second and third media servers. The second and third media servers may assist in performing video recording, transcoding, storage of recordings, multicasting, etc.

主权项

1. A method for providing a recording to clients via a plurality of media servers, comprising:
a first media server storing a plurality of videoconference recordings, wherein the first media server is coupled to a second media server and a third media server, wherein the second and third media server are coupled to respective plurality of clients; the first media server providing a single video stream of a first videoconference recording of the plurality of videoconference recordings to each of the second and third media servers, wherein the single video stream of the first videoconference recording has a first resolution; wherein the second and third media servers are each configured to multicast the first videoconference recording to the respective plurality of clients using the single video stream, wherein the second and third media servers are configured to transcode the first videoconference recording from the first resolution into a plurality of different resolutions and provide a plurality of different video streams corresponding to the plurality of different resolutions to respective clients.