Streaming Media Technology

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Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider.[1] Streaming media technolgy enables on-demand or real-time access to multimedia content via internet and allows users to play those contents without fully downloading them. After playing, there's no copy of played contents leaving on the receiving devices, which protects the copyright of the original mutimedia contents.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 System Architecture 3 Storage and Bandwidth 4 Data Compression 4.1 Run-length encoding 4.2 Relative encoding 4.3 Huffman encoding 4.4 Transform encoding 5 Network Protocols 5.1 RTP 5.2 RTCP 5.3 RTSP 5.4 RSVP 6 Applications 7 References 8 See also 9 External links

Introduction

When the user requests to play a media object that is stored on a remote server, the data blocks are retrieved from the remote server over a network, and passes to the client for display. [3] There are ususaly two ways of doing that. First, the media object is completely downloaded from the sever before the display begins. Second, the player can start to play

System Architecture

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Storage and Bandwidth

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Data Compression

Run-length encoding

Relative encoding

Huffman encoding

Transform encoding

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Network Protocols

RTP

RTCP

RTSP

RSVP

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Applications

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References

[1] Wikipedia, "Streaming Media", April 2008, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media" .

[2] Sequence website, "http://www.sequence.co.uk/services/streamingmedia/howdoesitwork.html" .

[3] Dashti, Ali E. Streaming Media Server Design, Prentice Hall, 2003

See also

• Peer To Peer Network Security

External links

• streamingmedia.com - Streaming Media Industry News
• Streaming Media - Streaming Media Wiki Page
• TCP/IP_model - Protocols on the Five-layer TCP/IP Model

--Chuh 15:58, 7 April 2008 (EDT)