The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming

2nd Edition

By: David Austerberry

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Paperback | 13 October 2004 | Edition Number 2

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Learn the end-to-end process, starting with capture from a video or audio source through to the consumer's media player

A quick-start quide to streaming media technologies

How to monetize content and protect revenue with digital rights management

For broadcasters, web developers, project managers implementing streaming media systems, David Austerberry shows how to deploy the technology on your site, from video and audio capture through to the consumer's media player.

The book first deals with Internet basics and gives a thorough coverage of telecommunications networks and the last mile to the home. Video and audio formats are covered, as well as compression standards including Windows Media and MPEG-4. The book then guides you through the streaming process, showing in-depth how to encode audio and video. The deployment of media servers, live webcasting and how the stream is displayed by the consumer's media player are also covered.

A final section on associated technologies illustrates how you can protect your revenue sources with digital rights management, looks at content delivery networks and provides examples of successful streaming applications.

The supporting website, www.davidausterberry.com/streaming.html, offers updated links to sources of information, manufacturers and suppliers.

David Austerberry is co-owner of the new media communications consultancy, Informed Sauce. He has worked with streaming media since the late nineties. Before that, he has been product manager for a number of broadcast equipment manufacturers, and formerly had many years with a leading broadcaster.

Industry Reviews

"As one of the reviewers pointed out, this book is a "much-needed introduction to the breadth and depth of streaming media." I agree. For broadcasters and web developers involved in media delivery across the web, the book could be a very useful first step in understanding the basics of streaming technologies."
European Broadcasting Union, www.ebu.ch

"It can be concluded that streaming has become an important part of our lives and successfully complements traditional broadcasting for distributing video/audio content to some niche audiences.

We can recommend the second edition of this book to all broadcasters involved in webcasting and on-line services production, publishing and distribution." - EBU Technical Review (2nd Edition)

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Basics	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
500 years of print development	p. 3
100 years of the moving image	p. 4
The Web meets television	p. 5
Convergence	p. 7
What is streaming?	p. 7
Applications	p. 9
How this book is organized	p. 10
Summary	p. 10
IP networks and telecommunications	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Network layers	p. 14
Telecommunications	p. 25
The local loop	p. 30
Summary	p. 38
The World Wide Web	p. 40
Introduction	p. 40
WWW	p. 42
Web graphics	p. 44
Proprietary tools	p. 48
Web servers	p. 48
Summary	p. 51
Video formats	p. 52
Introduction	p. 52
Scanning	p. 53
Color space conversion	p. 56
Digital component coding	p. 61
Videotape formats	p. 65
Time code	p. 72
Interconnection standards	p. 74
High definition	p. 76
Summary	p. 77
Video compression	p. 78
Introduction	p. 78
Compression basics	p. 79
Compression algorithms	p. 80
Discrete cosine transform	p. 84
Compression codecs	p. 87
MPEG compression	p. 89
Proprietary architectures	p. 98
Summary	p. 101
Audio compression	p. 102
Introduction	p. 102
Analog compression	p. 103
Digital audio	p. 104
The ear and psychoacoustics	p. 110
The human voice	p. 112
Lossy compression	p. 114
Codecs	p. 117
Codec standards	p. 118
Proprietary codecs	p. 127
Open-source codecs	p. 128
Summary	p. 129
Streaming	p. 131
Introduction to streaming media	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
What are the applications of streaming?	p. 134
The streaming architecture	p. 138
Bandwidth, bits, and bytes	p. 147
Proprietary codec architectures	p. 149
Summary	p. 152
Video encoding	p. 154
Introduction	p. 154
Video capture	p. 159
Compression	p. 167
Encoding enhancements	p. 170
Encoding products	p. 173
Limits on file sizes	p. 175
Summary	p. 177
Audio encoding	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
Audio formats	p. 181
Capture	p. 184
Encoding	p. 186
File formats	p. 189
Summary	p. 192
Preprocessing	p. 193
Introduction	p. 193
Video processing	p. 193
Audio	p. 200
Summary	p. 207
Stream serving	p. 209
Introduction	p. 209
Streaming	p. 211
Webcasting	p. 218
On-demand serving	p. 222
Inserting advertisements	p. 222
Playlists	p. 224
Logging and statistics	p. 225
Proprietary server architectures	p. 227
Server deployment	p. 229
Summary	p. 232
Live webcasting	p. 233
Introduction	p. 233
Planning a webcast	p. 233
Video capture	p. 237
Graphics	p. 238
Audio capture	p. 238
Encoding	p. 241
Summary	p. 243
Media players	p. 244
Introduction	p. 244
Portals, players, and plug-ins	p. 245
Digital Rights Management	p. 256
Summary	p. 257
Associated Technologies and Applications	p. 259
Rights management	p. 261
Introduction	p. 261
The value chain	p. 264
Digital Rights Management	p. 265
The rights management parties	p. 270
System integration	p. 274
Encryption	p. 276
Watermarking	p. 277
Security	p. 279
XrML	p. 280
Examples of DRM products	p. 282
MPEG-4	p. 286
Summary	p. 287
Content distribution	p. 289
Introduction	p. 289
Content delivery networks	p. 291
Corporate intranets	p. 300
Improving the QoS	p. 304
Satellite delivery	p. 306
Summary	p. 307
Applications for streaming media	p. 309
Introduction	p. 309
Summary	p. 322
Glossary	p. 327
Abbreviations	p. 331
Index	p. 335
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