Internet MBone broadcast management system

The Internet Multicast Backbone (MBone) has seen tremendous growth during the past four years. For the past three and a half years, we have broadcast a weekly seminar on the MBone. The effort to set up and produce each broadcast has grown as we worked to improve the broadcasts and to support more services (e.g., on-demand playback, recording, video effect, etc.) This problem motivated us to develop a system to automate the tasks required to produce a broadcast. The motivation, requirements, and implementation of the system are presented.