Video splitting and distributed placement scheme for clustered video servers

A computer readable medium encoded with processing instructions for performing a method of splitting and allocating streaming media source files, the method comprising:

• defining a structure of a network packet, a structure of a distributed control file, and a structure of a clip file;
• analyzing information of streaming media source files, and processing a client's requirements to obtain a splitting requirement of the streaming media source files into clip files;
• defining a split files placement strategy and analyzing a clip file allocating requirements, according to the client's requirements;
• analyzing the streaming media source files to construct a splitting task list and relevant control files, according to the client's requirements;
• creating several threads to split the streaming media source files, wherein each thread is responsible for splitting a streaming media source file;
• and
• distributing the clip files to relevant storage server nodes, according to the split files placement strategy.

A method of splitting and allocating streaming media source files, the method comprising:

• capturing information of the streaming media source files;
• capturing client's requests information;
• creating data placement strategies;
• analyzing the streaming media source files and creating task lists;
• splitting the streaming media source files into clips;
• and
• transmitting and storing the clips in the servers.