Hands-On Guide to Streaming Media, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 7

Streaming Media Distribution

Once you have encoded and edited your files, you’re ready to distribute them to the world. In some ways, this is the biggest challenge facing a streaming producer. You will have to work closely with the people who manage your organization’s streaming server and network resources. Frankly, these professionals aren’t always the most easy-going colleagues. Streaming media is a demanding technology, especially on bandwidth, which is the amount of data that can be transmitted over a network per second. Network and system administrators have to balance all the demands made on a network, and streaming can throw their systems out of kilter. Hopefully, you’ve explained your plans to your IT high priests from the ...