INTRODUCTION
Why do you need to prepare video for multimedia and streaming?
Working with data rates
Downloading vs streaming
COMPRESSING VIDEO AND AUDIO
Compression fundamentals
Downsizing video
Using different CODECs
Looking at keyframes
Compressing audio
Target bit rates
Variable bit rates
Using Cleaner to compress video and audio
DIFFERENT MEDIA STANDARDS
Quicktime, Real and Windows Media Player
The MPEG family
Different formats for different applications
DOWNLOADING MEDIA
Setting up media on an HTTP server
Issues to consider with downloaded video
Accessibility issues
STREAMING MEDIA
What are the essentials of streaming media?
The streaming server
Advantages and disadvantages of Quicktime, Real and Windows Media server
technology
RTP and RTSP
Working out data transfer rates
Audio streaming
DISK MEDIA
Working with CDs and DVDs
Outline of DVD standard
Tools for creating DVDs
Questions and answers |
