Tag Archives: Streaming fundamentals

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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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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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Download free streaming media primer here

Streaminglearningcenter.com is pleased to offer for free download a streaming media primer written by Jan Ozer.The primer starts by defining commonly used streaming terms like bandwidth, streaming and data rate, and then explains universal encoding

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Streaming 102: Codecs, plus VBR and CBR, and I, B an P Frames

Streaming 101 defines file-related terms like bandwidth, frame rate, data rate and resolution, and then delivery options like streaming and progressive download. This article describes codecs and streaming architectures, and then common en

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Streaming 103: Choosing Your Streaming Configuration Parameters

This article details codec usage, and the resolution, data rate, and frame rate used by many of the top sites on the Internet.

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Streaming 101: The Basics – Codecs, Bandwidth, Data Rate and Resolution

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