Streaming Learning Center Where Streaming Professionals Learn to Excel
Whenever I speak at industry groups about H.264, and detail the upcoming royalty obligation, some attendees are invariably surprised that using H.264 will generate royalties. Here's what you need to know about H.264 and royalties, in an except fro
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June, 2009
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12 June
Video: streaming production: improving your video quality
streaming quality, shooting for streaming, bit rates for streaming,
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11 June
Video tutorial: Producing H.264 video for Flash distribution with the Adobe Media Encoder
This is the first in a series of video tutorials on producing H.264, in this case detailing how to do so using the Adobe Media Encoder. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. Firs
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11 June
According to IDC, 94% of consumers can play streams of 1200 or higher
I was reading through some material on Adobe's web site (specifically, here) and noticed the following table, which I've copied verbatim, along with the explanatory note. Citing an August, 2008 IDC study that's referenced below, the table states that
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8 June
Test Drive: Intel Nehalem, Part 1
A few months ago, I ran some Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) benchmarks on different computers that isolated how CS4 performed with formats ranging from DV to Red. Now that Intel’s Nehalem processor is upon us, those numbers are obsolete, so I’m updating them with results from two Nehalem-based workstations that I’ve been testing. In this installment, I’ll explain the tests and share DV and …
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6 June
How streaming video can improve product sales – a user study
I found this snippet on the Really Practical Marketing website. It's third hand information, but it shows the results of some user polls taken by online video company Vzaar. Specifically, Vzaar polled their customers on how using streaming video impr
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5 June
Choosing your streaming resolution and data rate
This page discusses how to compute the optimal data rate for your streaming video.
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3 June
Online video viewing numbers “vastly” overstated
We like to drink our own Kool-Aid in the streaming video business, and most of us tended to accept the increasingly hyperbolic streaming video viewing numbers as fact. Well, Nielson funded a research study to the tune of $3.5 million that actuall
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May, 2009
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26 May
So You Want to Get to Know H.264?
H.264 CABAC CAVLC profiles levels encoding scalable video coding AVC playing back H.265
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