Streaming Media: Building and Implementing a Complete Streaming System - Softcover

Demetriades, Gregory C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471209503 ISBN 13: 9780471209508

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

Helps you choose audio and video equipment, capture and edit, and set up a streaming site. ∗ Explores how streaming media can be delivered via dial–up connections, as well as broadband connections. ∗ CD–ROM includes the author′s streaming software package, allowing readers to configure, monitor, and mange a live encoded media stream. ∗ Reviews server issues, digital distribution systems, advanced enterprise streaming, and narrowband versus broadband. ∗ Also addresses legal issues and the future of streaming with wireless devices.

About this title

About the Author

GREGORY C. DEMETRIADES is the founder and CEO of MaxVU, Inc., a streaming media technology development company. He is also an award–winning entrepreneur who is recognized as one of the pioneers in streaming media. Demetriades holds several patents on MPEG and remote control encoding devices with codec optimization and enhancement patent applications currently in the pipeline.

From the Back Cover

A complete toolkit to successfully develop and implement streaming media on the Web From hands–on training and distance learning to teleconferencing and product demonstrations, streaming media is providing businesses with a whole new world of opportunity. Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this book will provide you with all the information you ll need to begin streaming immediately. Demetriades offers an accessible presentation of this complex technology and all of its components, so you ll be able to address each segment of the streaming industry. As you progress through each chapter, you ll take another step toward the development of a streaming media enterprise. This informative book will direct you to the best resources to start streaming live or stored content over the Internet or Intranet. You ll also learn how to choose the right audio and video equipment, capture and edit, and set up a streaming site that meets your company s needs. Covering major platforms such as Microsoft, Real Networks, and Apple, it includes: Sixteen steps to building a successful streaming enterprise system Detailed instructions on how to make movies with a digital camera A guide to building your own encoders An in–depth look at wireless streaming media A discussion on security and surveillance using streaming media The CD–ROM contains: Adobe Premiere tryout version Pathfinder, Rapid Response, and Screen Magic by MaxVU, Inc. Discreet cleaner demo version

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471209503
• ISBN 13: 9780471209508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368