The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming

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Software developers usually focus on their very special area, this book however, gives you an idea how everything works together.That being said, a lot of the contents in the book can be skipped if you are already familar with color space, web, encoder/decoder etc. But even with the very basic stuff, David some time prodived insights one never thought of. The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming 2nd......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Section 1 Basics......Page 14 1 Introduction......Page 16 2 IP networks and telecommunications......Page 26 3 The World Wide Web......Page 53 4 Video formats......Page 65 5 Video compression......Page 91 6 Audio compression......Page 115 Section 2 Streaming......Page 144 7 Introduction to streaming media......Page 146 8 Video encoding......Page 167 9 Audio encoding......Page 192 10 Preprocessing......Page 206 11 Stream serving......Page 222 12 Live webcasting......Page 246 13 Media players......Page 257 Section 3 Associated Technologies and Applications......Page 272 14 Rights management......Page 274 15 Content distribution......Page 302 16 Applications for streaming media......Page 322 Glossary......Page 339 Abbreviations......Page 343 Index......Page 348