Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to Streaming and On-Demand Video

All 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