Streaming Video Fundamentals

Jason Thibeault

This article provides an overview of video streaming technologies, the workflow that delivers videos to end devices, and the new video experience streaming enables. This article assumes a basic understanding and familiarity with traditional broadcast production workflows, hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), video compression codecs, media security (such as digital rights management), video advertising, software-defined resources, and content delivery networks (CDNs).

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2020-04
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
Internet protocol (IP) video, over the-top (OTT), streaming video
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2020.2976257