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Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to Streaming and On-Demand Video
Damien Stolarz
Editorial: Addison Wesley Fecha de publicación: 31/12/2004 Páginas: 504All you need to know to prepare, capture, compress, and deliver Internet video!
Finally, there's a start-to-finish guide to Internet video for everyone who needs to understand it: Web professionals, managers, software developers, marketers, hobbyists, even investors. Mastering Internet Video brings together clear, coherent coverage of every key issue: compression, formats, standards, servers, software, hardware, networking, multicasting, digital rights management, video editing -- even troubleshooting. Damien Stolarz and Richard Koman offer both conceptual and practical information, as well as coverage of all leading formats and platforms. Best of all, they present easy-to-use, step-by-step solutions for each of today's most common Internet video usage scenarios.
Coverage includes:
- Step-by-step coverage of capturing, preparing, and deploying video on the Internet
- A practical guide to video compression -- including expert help with performance and quality tradeoffs
- Objective information for evaluating streaming servers, software, and hardware -- including solutions from Microsoft, Real, Apple, Adobe, and others
- How networks and the Internet handle video data -- including the challenges of real-time data delivery
- Internet video standards -- including a detailed look at MPEG-4 and the tools and applications it enables
- Implementing enterprise multicasting for corporate and other applications
- Using Digital Rights Management (DRM) to control how viewers use your video
- Scaling systems to meet demand for your most popular content
- When to choose P2P distribution instead of traditional broadcast techniques
- Working code examples to help developers integrate Internet video into their applications