Video Streaming and Media Players Basic Concepts Streaming System Architecture Streaming Applications Technologies for Streaming Commercial Players

Video streaming is the process of delivering video content to a viewing device for immediate display. Streaming is often the first application that springs to mind when people think about transporting video over a network. As discussed in this book, many other types of applications are possible with video over IP. Nevertheless, streaming is an important application for video over IP networks, and it makes sense for us to cover it in some detail.