CHAPTER 5.9 Video Servers
KARL PAULSEN
AZCAR USA, Inc., Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
INTRODUCTION
Portions of this chapter were derived from the NAB Engineering Handbook 9th edition chapter on the subject by Jerry Whitaker. It has been updated and expanded to include the burgeoning area of storage technologies. It covers primarily video servers, but some of the principles apply to media servers in general so the chapter is complementary to Chapter 3.6, Radio Station Automation, Networks, and Audio Storage.
Professional broadcast video servers today are available with many storage configurations, various input-output configurations, and sophisticated capabilities for the storage and presentation of video and audio. Early video disk recorders evolved ...
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