 
0-321-12246-1 Addison Wesley Longman 9780321122469 0321122461Aug-04
List Price: $49.99Paperback477 pages
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
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