I taught a class on H.264 production at Streaming Media West today. Two related trends that I discussed were HTTP delivery of streaming media and adaptive bitrate streaming, where multiple files are encoded for distribution to remote viewer

Just finished a presentation on producing H.264 at Streaming Media West - here's the final PDF from the presentation for attendees who wanted to download it. Here's the class description - Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive DownloadT

Ten years ago, a streaming video player performed one function - it played your video. Today, the features of your player are critical to achieving the maximum return on investment from your video. Specifically, a well featured, properly designed