April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 52m
English
Web-based video delivery presents the digital video in a compressed form as a stream that you can join at any time. This is like jumping on a train as it passes through the station without stopping.
There may be multiple streams, as with a broadcast TV multiplex, but in this case the streams are synchronous and only relate to a single program.
Over the last few years, it has become popular for broadcasters to augment their TV services by providing web-based services. This has been particularly true of news broadcasters. Having come from the TV world, they naturally have a large body of video content available for repurposing. Many broadcasters’ web sites provide ...
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