Designing a media server application

I'm looking into designing a media server application for a school project and was wondering what the best way to go about it would be. It's going to be n-tiered with the logic tier taking care of all the indexing, user authentication, file storage and the rest.

Here are the options I've come up with so far...

• Java back-end, Adobe Fl开发者_运维百科ex front-end
• WCF service back-end, ASP.NET front-end
• C# back-end, Silverlight front-end

I'm not sure if I'm going along the right path for a media server application. Do any of the options listed above seem fine or should I be looking into another technology?

They all seem fine, but it really depends on what you intend it to do. The WCF solution would give you the most flexibility, as you could write a bunch of services to do all the work, then write a lightweight front end to interact with the services. This would then give you scope to move the front-end to different machine, or even create other UI's, such as mobile apps (iOS/Andriod/WM7) which only need to interact with your services.