CHAPTER 1
Quick Start: Your First Streaming Media File
You’ve chosen this book to get up to speed quickly on streaming media and you’re anxious to accomplish something right away. Perhaps you’re on a deadline or just naturally impatient. This chapter gives you a taste of streaming, starting with the most basic procedure in streaming media: encoding.
As you’ll learn later in the book, there are several streaming technologies to choose from. This chapter focuses on just one: Microsoft® Windows Media®. That’s because most streaming technologies, including Windows Media, share several basic tools and procedures, such as encoding. And it’s likely you already have Windows® Media Player®, the software that plays Windows Media files, on your computer. ...
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