How can you judge the quality of your streaming media (and the success of the overall project) if you don’t have a yardstick? In the biz, such yardsticks are called metrics. Here’s a guide to understanding streaming quality metrics and how to set up streaming quality tests.
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Posted 08 Sep 2004
The future of full-screen, high-quality streaming media hinges upon the widespread availability of ultrabroadband as well as the business models necessary to make it all profitable.
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Posted 08 Sep 2004
The collaboration management tool allows the office products giant to schedule and deliver multiple Webcasts, as well as offering management reporting and analysis tools that help them analyze their effectiveness.
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Posted 01 Sep 2004
Most people skip television commercials, however The American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI) has found a way to take those ads and turn them in to the main event.
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Posted 25 Aug 2004
250 million and 93%. Those are just two of the figures given by Microsoft, Apple, Real, Macromedia, and others in reference to the number of people who have downloaded their media players. This is a realistic look into what those numbers actually mean.
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Posted 18 Aug 2004
The Flash Video extension allows users of Dreamweaver to select media, choose streaming or progressive download, select from six different skins, and specify video playback options.
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Posted 17 Aug 2004
The company has made limited-time licensing offers to colleges and universities across the country, creating confusion among schools as to how to respond.
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Posted 11 Aug 2004
For investor relations professionals, Webcasting has been the “killer app” for compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation FD. Now, however, savvy communications professionals are leveraging the benefits of Webcasting for other applications beyond the quarterly earnings call.
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Posted 11 Aug 2004
When it comes to the task of revitalizing public education, the power of streaming media is already proving to be more than just hype. Take for example, Los Angeles' Olive Vista Middle School, where streamed video clips are successfully and cost-effectively stimulating young minds.
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Posted 04 Aug 2004
In the second of a two-part article, we dig deeper three different solutions—from Certeon, Kontiki, and Network Appliance—and provide questions you should ask yourself before you go hunting for a streaming service provider.
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Posted 04 Aug 2004
In the first of a two-part article, we take a look at three different solutions—from Certeon, Kontiki, and Network Appliance—to offer a sense of the options available for moving your content from LAN to WAN.
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Posted 28 Jul 2004
Though it’s not aimed solely, or even primarily, at streaming media, the "Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act" should give anyone involved with moving content across the Web cause for concern.
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Posted 26 Jul 2004
Along with the usual promises—better image quality, faster encoding speeds—DivX has built in several new features designed to make the codec more appealing to both the PC and CE markets.
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Posted 21 Jul 2004
Here’s how you can use simple file-level DRM with the Microsoft Windows Media format to protect your content and maybe even make some money.
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Posted 21 Jul 2004
The recent Markman Order may be the first step towards invalidating some of Acacia’s DMT patent claims, but the case still has a long way to go.
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Posted 14 Jul 2004
You may firmly believe that streaming media is the best thing since sliced bread, but your boss may need some education.
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Posted 13 Jul 2004
If you're looking for an online meeting tool with powerful features and extensibility, you should give Breeze a try. It’s not perfect by any means, but it provides a host of features you won’t find in similar tools, and for a very reasonable price.
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Posted 07 Jul 2004
It's not quite streaming, it’s not quite simple edge caching, it’s not quite a content distribution network, and it’s not quite standard peer-to-peer. Yet Kontiki's VOD offers many of the benefits of all these solutions at prices that seem too good to be true.
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Posted 07 Jul 2004
With a brand-new interface, batch processing, and more output formats than ever, the Squeeze 4 Compression Suite will be a force to be reckoned with in the ever-competitive encoder market.
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Posted 29 Jun 2004
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