Adobe's Emerging Rich Media Ecosystem, Part 2: Developing Live and Video on Demand Streaming Media Applications

References

• Web server vs. streaming server: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/compare/ WebServVStreamServ.aspx
• Understanding the difference between progressive download and streaming video: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_download.html
• Best practices in online video webcasting: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/CorporateResources/ whitepapers/ Thomson_Best_Practices_in_Online_Video_Webcasting.pdf
• Videos in clinical medicine: http://content.nejm.org/misc/videos.shtml
• Video and audio courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm
• Video Streaming & Email Marketing: http://www.benchmarkrichmedia.com
• Third-party Flash video streaming hosting: http://www.streamingvideoprovider.co.uk/
• Video Streaming: concepts, algorithms, and systems: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-260.pdf
• See a Flex application built: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/media/flexapp/
• The Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP): http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/teaching/ais/slides/2003/ RTSP.pdf
  http://www.javvin.com/protocolRTSP.html
• Video editing:
1. Creating a custom UI using a FLVPlayback component with Flash CS3 Professional
2. Using the Flash Video Encoder: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
• Flash Lite architecture: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/architecture/
• H.264 FLVPlayback: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p66556927/
• H.264 Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp7MGzwFFJI
• Harte, L. Introduction to MPEG, Althos (2006)
• Richardson, E. H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression, Wiley (2003)

About the Author

Marcia Gulesian is an IT strategist, hands-on practitioner, and advocate for business-driven architectures. She has served as software developer, project manager, CTO, and CIO. Marcia is author of well more than 100 feature articles on IT, its economics, and its management.

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