video streaming

The term "video streaming" is usually used to describe the transmission of a video programme (with the associated audio usually along side) over an organisation's local area network (LAN), it's wide area network (WAN), the Internet or, sometimes, all three.

It is a growing trend and the practice is being adopted by more and more organisations as a timely and effective means of reaching their employees, customers, investors, students and many other communities.

Applications include:

  Corporate

News Distribution

Employee Training

Videoconferencing

Factory Process Monitoring

  Telemedicine

  Education

Distance Learning

Media Retrieval & Distribution

Virtual Fieldtrips

Video Distribution

Event Broadcast

  Government

Surveillance & Security

Personnel Training

News Distribution

Video Visitation

Remote Court Arraignment

Whatever the application, it can usually be broken down to five distinct elements; video encoding, storage, video on demand, video streaming and decode/display.

The video programme is often sourced as analogue video and audio; perhaps a live broadcast using a video camera, a recorded sequence from a vcr or a programme arriving via a satellite decoder.

This analogue signal must be encoded into a digital format before it can be streamed over the data network.

The video and audio may be saved as a digital file for playback later (this is possible even as it is streamed live over the network).

The digital file that was stored may be streamed at any time, on demand by the viewer.

The delivery of the programme over the data network. This may be to one receiver on the network, to every PC in an organisation, securely via the Internet and a VPN (virtual private network) to remote employees or published to anyone with a public Internet connection

Once received over the network, the video and audio must be decoded and displayed. The display device could be a standard PC using a common multimedia player like Windows Media or Real Media player, or, via a set-top box decoder, as full-screen video on a TV monitor, Plasma screen or projector.

Intermedia provides streaming solutions based on the VBrick range of products.

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