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Video Over IP: A Practical Guide to Technology and Applications
by Wes D. Simpson
Book Description "Video Over IP" gives you everything you need to know to choose from among the many ways of transferring your video over a network. The information is presented in an easy to read format, with comparison charts provided to help you understand the benefits and drawbacks of different technologies for a variety of practical applications.
Readers who have a background in either video or networking will benefit from tutorials in both areas and the breadth of coverage that this book provides. Real-life application examples give readers successful examples of a variety of Video over IP networks that are up and running today.
After reading this book, you will be able to:
- Understand the basics of video today
- Understand the basics of IP networking technology
- Differentiate between technologies such as streaming, download and play, and file transfer
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of a variety of video transport techniques
- Know what information you need to gather about their application before selecting a Video over IP technology and before beginning an implementation
H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia
by Iain E. G. Richardson
Book Description Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first book to cover H.264 in technical detail, this unique resource takes an application-based approach to the two standards and the coding concepts that underpin them. Presents a practical, step-by-step, guide to the MPEG-4 Visual and H.264 standards for video compression. Introduces the basic concepts of digital video and covers essential background material required for an understanding of both standards. Provides side-by-side performance comparisons of MPEG-4 Visual and H.264 and advice on how to approach and interpret them to ensure conformance. Examines the way that the standards have been shaped and developed, discussing the composition and procedures of the VCEG and MPEG standardisation groups. Focussing on compression tools and profiles for practical multimedia applications, this book 'decodes' the standards, enabling developers, researchers, engineers and students to rapidly get to grips with both H.264 and MPEG-4 Visual.
IPTV - Broadband Meets Broadcast: The Network Television Revolution
by William James Cooper, Graham Lovelace
Book Description This report by William Cooper and Graham Lovelace, published by informitv in association with Lovelace Consulting Limited, is recommended reading for anyone that needs to know about the future of television.
IPTV - the delivery of digital television and other audio and video services over broadband data networks using internet protocols - will transform the television landscape.
This exclusive executive briefing provides a unique insight into the next revolution in digital television.
SynopsisThis influential independent report presents the key issues that every senior executive and decision maker involved in media and communications needs to know and understand about the future of television. Drawing on decades of combined experience, extensive interviews and the latest available industry research, this concise executive report provides an authoritative overview of the emerging market for delivering audio and video services over data networks. The network television revolution will change channels of distribution and fundamentally affect the way television is viewed in the future. Billions are being bet on the outcome that could radically transform the media landscape forever. In response to recent unprecedented global interest, informitv and Lovelace Consulting have produced this exclusive executive briefing that explains the key issues in simple terms that cut through the hyperbole and jargon to provide a clear picture of the next revolution in communications. With an independent perspective, based on practical professional experience, this report places these developments in context to empower decision makers to formulate their own strategy in response to the significant threats and opportunities presented. Dr William Cooper is the founder and principal consultant at independent interactive television consultancy informitv. At the BBC, William was operationally responsible for the delivery of online and interactive output, including the launch of interactive services on satellite, terrestrial and cable television. William started his career as a broadcast journalist, following a PhD in Communications from the University of Leeds. Graham Lovelace is the founder of Lovelace Consulting Limited, which specialises in convergent media. A former head of strategy and marketing at The Press Association, Graham was the founder of Lovelacemedia and founding editorial director at Teletext Limited. Graham is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and is a regular commentator on media developments.
Introduction to IPTV Billing, Event Recording, Usage Rating, Content License Fees and Advertising Revenues
by Lawrence Harte, Avi Ofrane, Tom Pazderka
Book Description This book explains how companies bill for IPTV video, telephone, data, and information services. Billing and customer care for IPTV systems convert the measured amounts of services (bytes of digital information transmitted or information services provided) within an Internet Protocol (IP) data network into the money that will be received by the service provider. The billing systems used in IPTV systems can vary from modified television billing systems to custom integrated systems that allow real-time (near instant) activation and prepayment of services. The authors have interviewed and worked with hundreds of service provider companies and billing system developers to discover the ways IPTV billing systems operate. You will learn the language and terms used in the setup and operation of IPTV billing systems along with the format and important information parts of event detail billing records. The popular billing industry standards used to track IPTV services include IPDR, AMA, CIBER, TAP and XML are covered. Discussed are the ways that charges can be settled between service providers who allow visitors to use their systems. Included is a basic introduction to how services can be instantly provided and how billing is performed for access to information services. You will learn how mediation systems adapt usage events into billing records that can be gathered and managed by billing systems, how IPTV systems identify specific users and how to guide billing records to the appropriate customer account. The rating processes used for different services provided by IPTV are explained. You will discover what a typical usage transaction looks like, what elements are needed to create a usage record, how to deal with un-ratable records and rating usage from service partners. The process of invoicing is covered including billing cycles, invoice creation and posting to customer accounts. You will learn how it is possible to manage multiple user accounts on the same IPTV set top box (STB). Taxation issues are discussed including jurisdiction and other regulations along with universal service funds. Service rates and discounts are described including volume discounting, multi-tier discounting, bundled rate plans and service adjustments. You will learn how IPTV systems permit customers to self provision services and the common payment options that may be available to the customer.
Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-based Distribution
by Michael Zink
From the Back Cover In recent years, the proliferation of available video content and the popularity of the Internet have encouraged service providers to develop new ways of distributing content to clients. Increasing video scaling ratios and advanced digital signal processing techniques have led to Internet Video-on-Demand applications, but these currently lack efficiency and quality.
Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-based Distribution examines how current video compression and streaming can be used to deliver high-quality applications over the Internet. In addition to analysing the problems of client heterogeneity and the absence of Quality of Service in the Internet, this book:
- assesses existing products and encoding formats;
- presents new algorithms and protocols for optimised on-line video streaming architectures;
- includes real-world application examples and experiments;
- sets out a practical 'toolkit' for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multimedia Distribution Systems.
Written by an expert in the field of video distribution, Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-based Distribution provides a novel approach to the design and implementation of Video-on-Demand systems for Software Engineers and researchers. It will also be useful for graduate students following Electronic Engineering and Computer Science courses.
Digital TV Over Broadband: Harvesting Bandwidth
by Joan Van Tassel
Book Description Digital TV Over Broadband: Harvesting Bandwith offers a clear overview of how technological developments are revolutionizing television. It details the recent shift in focus from HDTV to a more broadly defined DTV and to the increasing importance of webcasting for interactive television. Digital Television examines the recent industry toward a combination of digital services, including the use of the new bandwidth for additional channels of programming, as well as some high definition television. The book discusses the increasingly rapid convergence of telecommunications, television and computers and the important role of the web in the future of interactive programming. This new edition not only covers the new technology, but also demonstrates practical uses of the technology in business models.
Introduction to IP Television; Why and How Companies are Providing Television Through Data Networks
by Lawrence Harte
Book Description This book explains how and why people and companies are using IP television and Internet television services. You will discover how global television services are already available through the Internet and how you can use standard television to watch global television channels using analog television adapter boxes. The fundamentals of how IP Television works is provided. You will discover how IP television can be watched on different types of viewing devices such as standard televisions with adapters, dedicated IP televisions, multimedia computers and mobile telephones. IP television service allows viewers to have more control of Internet television services. This control ranges from instant service activation to real time television on demand controls. Some of the advanced Internet television features such as personal media channels, anywhere television extensions, global television channels and multimedia programs are described. In addition to the traditional ways of television channel selection, you will learn about new ways television channels can be search and selected using interactive electronic programming guides (EPGs). The different types of media formats that are used for IP television services are explained along with their control protocols. Not all IP Television systems and services are the same. There are cost and quality tradeoffs along with common problem areas and risks. You will discover how the audio and video service quality can range from poor to above the quality that is already delivered to standard TV. Because each IP television viewer has a unique address, this allows advertising messages to be sent to specific viewers (addressable advertising). The ability to direct advertising messages to specific target audiences (addressable advertising) is more valuable to companies than traditional broadcast advertising and this may result in reduced viewing costs.
Voice and Video Over IP
by James Harry Green, Jeanne Fleming
Book Description Time-pressed executives want to learn more about current emerging technologies, but can be intimidated by jargon-heavy, techno-speak books. The E-books in this series use actual applications and case histories to introduce today's key technologies, explain how they work, and show their use in real-life situationsall in an easy-to-read style that doesn't sacrifice technical content.