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This comprehensive guide covers basic terms, multimedia content hierarchy, streaming protocols, compression standards, and more. Learn about unicast and multicast delivery, media encoding, and media playback development. Explore color depth charts and the real-time streaming protocol to enhance your understanding of multimedia technologies. Discover the benefits of multimedia streaming and the process of capturing and buffering video content. Dive into the world of Java-based and browser plug-in media players for a robust multimedia experience.
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Basic Terms Table 1. Hierarchy of multimedia content.
Multicast capable • More Robust • Access to Storage • Relieves Web Server • Standalone player • Java based player • Browser plug-in player • Appliance Proprietary Format Media Server Audio Video Animation Send Stream To Clients Media Encoding Clients • Decode • Buffer • Sync. Send Request to Media Server Send Request To Servers Web Server Basic Terms Figure 2. To hear or view a media file without downloading it
Basic Terms Figure 3. Capturing Video
Basic Terms Figure 4. Streaming media development process
Basic Terms Figure 5. Streaming media playback
Basic Terms Figure 6. Streaming media from a conventional Web server
Basic Terms Figure 7. Realtime Streaming protocol
Basic Terms Figure 8. RTSP state machihne
Basic Terms Figure 10. Unicast delivering
Basic Terms Figure 11. Multicast delivering
Unicast Host Router Multicast Host Router Basic Terms Figure 12. Unicast/Multicast delivering
Basic Terms Figure 13. Multiple bit rate encoding
Basic Terms Table 2. Color depth chart.