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

All you need to master preparing, capturing, compressing, securing, and delivering 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, and hobbyists, even investors. Mastering Internet Video brings together clear, coherent coverage of every key issue:

All you need to master preparing, capturing, compressing, securing, and delivering 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, and 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 offers both conceptual and practical information, as well as coverage of all leading formats and platforms. Best of all, he presents easy-to-use, step-by-step solutions for each of today's most common Internet video usage scenarios. Coverage includes

Comprehensive conceptual 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, Macromedia, and others

How networks and the Internet handle video data—including the challenges of real-time data delivery

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