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Media Distribution Facilities

Media Distribution Services (MDS) operates a production and distribution facility on the Centennial Campus of NC State University.

MDS creates video podcasts, online video, television programs and DVDs for our clients: faculty and students. Between Fall 2008 and Fall 2009, MDS encoded 70 complete courses into podcasts and online video, consisting of over 2,000 individual digital files.

Our production process spans the entire NCSU campus. Content originates in DELTA Video Communication Services (VCS) video classrooms through recording classes. These 50-, 75- or 90-minute lectures are encoded “real time” into MPEG-2 files that are sent via IP to our digital storage on Centennial Campus.

The archival MPEG-2 files are then repurposed for television playback on cable channel 18 via the MediaEdge server, or mastered on to DVD for duplication. Files are more often transcoded into online formats such as MPEG-4 for podcasts and online streaming.

For more information contact DELTA Media Distribution Associate Director Peter Watson, peter_watson@ncsu.edu, 513-7370.

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