UP J2L on Video Streaming

A Review of Video Streaming over the Internet

http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter/video-streaming.html

Ideally, video and audio are streamed across the Internet from the server to the client in response to a client request for a Web page containing embedded videos. The client plays the incoming multimedia stream in real time as the data is received. Quite a few video streamers are starting to appear and many pseudo-streaming technologies and other potential solutions are also in the pipeline. Generally streaming video solutions may work on a closed-loop intranet, but for mass-market Internet use, they're simply dysfunctional. However current transport protocol, codec and scalability research will eventually make video on the Web a practical reality. Below we have reviewed the currently available commercial products which purport to provide video streaming capabilities over the Internet and outlined their limitations. Then we describe the major research projects curently underway, which are attempting to solve some of these limitations. Finally we compare and evaluate the SuperNOVA project with respect to other research projects and the current commercial products.

posted by LJ Regalado @ 4:56 PM