In recent years, the proliferation of available video content andthe popularity of the Internet have encouraged service providers todevelop new ways of distributing content to clients. Increasingvideo scaling ratios and advanced digital signal processingtechniques have led to Internet Video-on-Demand applications, butthese currently lack efficiency and quality.
Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-basedDistribution examines how current video compression andstreaming can be used to deliver high-quality applications over theInternet. In addition to analysing the problems of clientheterogeneity and the absence of Quality of Service in theInternet, this book:
* assesses existing products and encoding formats;
* presents new algorithms and protocols for optimised on-linevideo streaming architectures;
* includes real-world application examples and experiments;
* sets out a practical 'toolkit' for DynamicallyReconfigurable Multimedia Distribution Systems.
Written by an expert in the field of video distribution,Scalable Video on Demand: Adaptive Internet-basedDistribution provides a novel approach to the design andimplementation of Video-on-Demand systems for Software Engineersand researchers. It will also be useful for graduate studentsfollowing Electronic Engineering and Computer Science courses.
Michael Zink
Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Signal Processing Signalverarbeitung Video