Video and Media Servers, Second Edition
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Book Description
Video and Media Servers, Second Edition provides a technical understanding of videoanalog or digitalwith answers to many questions that surround tapeless, digital disk, and server based video distribution. Up-dated to address the universal shift towards the use of servers for the storage and delivery of video media, this book covers such timely issues as digital television broadcasting, the acceptance of compressed digital video and storage, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and streamed media on the internet.
The new edition includes: updates on changes in digital disk recorders, theories of storage area networks (SAN), and streaming media. Covering comparisons of network attached storage (NAS) vs SAN, principles of ftp and gigabit Ethernet, and how the video server is being purposed for web and internet, this new edition offers readers invaluable insights into the most modern technologies. Theories of servers (at the local server domain and in CentralCasting), non-video based servers, how to bridge IT based servers to video servers and vice versa, more on fibre channel networking, and an introduction to MAM (media asset management) are also included.
A focused guide for anyone with a technical understanding of video
New edition covers streaming and media asset management
Includes treatment of server technology as well as practical applications
From the Publisher
The new edition includes: updates on changes in digital disk recorders, theories of storage area networks (SAN), and streaming media. Covering comparisons of network attached storage (NAS) vs SAN, principles of ftp and gigabit Ethernet, and how the video server is being purposed for web and internet, this new edition offers readers invaluable insights into the most modern technologies. Theories of servers (at the local server domain and in CentralCasting), non-video based servers, how to bridge IT based servers to video servers and vice versa, more on fiber channel networking, and an introduction to MAM (media asset management) are also included.
Video and Media Servers, Second Edition
Video and Media Servers, Second Edition,Karl Paulsen,Focal Press,0240804759,Client/server computing,Computer Books: General,Computers,Data Transmission Systems - General,Digital television,General,Technology & Industrial Arts,Television & Video,Television - Direction & Production,Video recording,Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production
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