Development concepts of a media management system dedicated to Quran and Islamic education

This paper describes the design concepts of a media streaming management system dedicated to learning Quran sciences and Islamic studies. The media streaming system consists of three main services: Video-on-Demand (VoD), WebTV with scheduler, and Live streaming. It ensures the delivery of media in proper manner by streaming the content from the server to client. To accomplish this task we combine two different streaming approaches depending on the client type. In case of a PC-based client, traditional streaming using RTSP over UDP or TCP is employed, since the bandwidth fluctuations are not frequent. For handheld devices, we use DASH technology using HTTP to dynamically adapt the bitrate to the bandwidth fluctuations due to the mobility of the user. The proposed media management system dedicated to Quran and Islamic education provides an original approach and offers features, which will be made freely available to Islamic organizations and institutions. This work is being developed following a research program funded NOOR Research Centre at Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia.