FTVI

France Télévisions Interactive (FTVI) produces and edits the web sites for all three channels of the France Televisions Group. Along with editorial content, FTVI publishes over 200 on-line videos daily, taken from France 2 and France 3 programming (national and local newscasts, reporting, short programs, etc.).

The project

• Overhaul the multimedia editing platform by introducing a video program management module.

• Optimize video content searches for journalists and Web site contributors.

• Reduce streaming video hosting costs by automatically managing inventories on Akamai streaming servers and storage servers.

• Build archives accessible to all France 2 and France 3 teams for creating new content.

• Manage the automatic distribution of video to multiple channels for Web surfers to access content via any connection or media player.

The Manreo solution

• Hypercast Warehouse video content management solution offers advanced multiple criteria search features.

• Hypercast Warehouse manages video migration between Akamai streaming and storage servers, when ordered by a journalist or a contributor.

• Hypercast Warehouse automatically indexes various formats for a given video (Real Media, Windows Media) to enable access for all Web surfers, whatever their connection type.*

• Manreo CAFÉ automated encoding platform automatically declares France 2 and France 3 programs in the Hypercast Warehouse management database.

Advantages

• Simple, powerful tool for searching video content.

• Find video content and organize transfer of videos between streaming, storage, and archive servers.

• Empower journalists to overcome the difficulties and challenges of managing audiovisual content so they can focus on their editorial activities.

• Give Web surfers a broad choice of formats and playback speeds via the management of video content media.

Benefits

• Frees technicians from all video processing chores (digitization, encoding, broadcast, etc.)

• Improves the efficiency of journalists by helping them quickly locate video content.

• Quickly and effectively publishes over 200 videos online each day on the www.france2.fr and www.france3.fr Web sites.

• Reduces costs by storing on streaming servers only those videos available over the Internet (cost of renting one GB on a streaming server is four times higher than on a storage server).

• Optimizes the overall process of managing, publishing, and archiving video content to create new video content distribution services.

The next step

France Télévisions Interactive and Manreo are already at work on phase two of the video program management project: more powerful indexing of video content concerning semantics, rights, etc. in order to offer new services to Web surfers over new distribution channels.